UQ Unknown Quantities Journal / The Abject

  • Elif Gurbuz
CLIENT: UNIVERSITY OF THE ARTS LONDON, CENTRAL SAINT MARTINS 2015
DESIGN TEAM: LINA AL-AMOUNDI, ELIF GURBUZ, ANNA LASCIK, MICOL MONTESANTI, INES SMUDJA, TINA TOULI
PHOTOGRAPHY: DAVIDE DI THEODORO
EDITORIAL DESIGN / GRAPHIC DESIGN / ILLUSTRATION
With the intention of visually communicating a collective formation of Abject Art, the design of the second edition of the UQ Journal aims to compel users to transgress conventional boundaries of a standard academic Journal. The notion of the abject carries with its own specific idiosyncrasies that encompasses contradictions within itself i.e traits of fragility, instability and desire; as a design team we took this on as a great challenge to develop design outcomes that are reflective of the notion of the ‘abject.’