THE FUTURE OF DESIGN BOOK
OBJECTIVE
We had to transcribe Gui Bonsiepe article about design and then we had to compare it to a book of our choice in any way we’d like. When reading his article I found a lot of similarities between Bonsiepe’s thoughts and quotes from the book 1984.
DESIGN & DELIVERABLES
The design was intended to replicate propaganda type similar to what can be seen in 1984 posters. The 1984 type was the bolder of the two type and was stretched and connected to add more of a visual story through the type. This and the red blocks were added to relate more to the book. The large chapter title pages help to break up the large amounts of type between them.
CONCEPT
Bonsiepe talked about how the future of design education was in trouble and how it was straying too far away from things that critical to learning proper design practices. He wanted it to be changed from its current structure to one that focuses on what matters for our futures. The design structure was trapped and was going down a dark path, similar to how the main character in 1984 was trapped under big brother. Both are limited under a larger power and discover that they have to do something in order to make a better change for their worlds. Since we had to include all of the words from Bonsiepe’s article I decided to include similar paragraphs on the same pages and different thoughts on other pages. Each of the pages have a quotes from 1984 that relate in some way to Bonsiepe’s thoughts.
The Book
