For this project I was inspired by the old Chinese folklore story about the red thread of fate. It is an idea that two people who are destined to meet and fall in love are connected by an invisible red string that will eventually pull them together. That story gave me the idea to use a Robert Bringhurst quote as this connecting thread that spans the entirety of the booklet. The accordion book is 16 pages which coincides with the letters of Robert Bringhurst name. Ultimately I wanted to create a visual adventure for the viewer, where they would follow the quote as a guide throughout the pages, and along the way the eye would interact with each collage differently.
Typography is to literature as musical
performance is to composition: an essential
act of interpretation, full of endless
opportunity for insight or obtuseness.
Much typography is far removed from literature,
For language has a multitude of uses, including
packaging and propaganda.
Like music,
typography can be used to manipulate
rather than nourish
emotions and behavior.
But this
is not where typographers, musicians or other
human beings show us their finest side.
Typography at its best is a slow performing
art, worthy of the same informed appreciation
that we sometimes give musical
performances, and capable of giving similar
enrichment and pleasure in return.
—Robert Bringhurst
