ISTD and Flatland

The new project we're working on at LCC is for ISTD (International Socielty of Typographic Designers). Typography has been something I've really fallen in love with the last year, because of the many possibiities and the nerdiness - it can be very hard to deal with but the outcome can be so beautiful.

The project is about the novel Flatland: A romance of many dimensions, written in 1884 by Edward A. Abbott. "The story is about a two-dimensional world referred to as Flatland which is occupied by geometric figures, line-segments (females) and regular polygons with various numbers of sides. The narrator is a humble square, a member of the social caste of gentlemen and professionals in a society of geometric figures, who guides us through some of the implications of life in two dimensions. The square has a dream about a visit to a one-dimensional world (Lineland) which is inhabited by "lustrous points." He is then visited by a three-dimensional sphere, which he cannot comprehend until he sees Spaceland for himself." Read the whole book here!

We're supposed to "produce a proposal for a new edition of Flatland that doesn’t necessarily engage with the conventions of ‘the book’ as we understand them, although it may have text matter, pages and a cover – or not. It could be a pamphlet, a chapbook, a poster, a landscape, a happening, a dream, an installation, a text, a sound piece, an animation, a moment."

My idea at the moment is to produce the book by origami / paper folding. Maybe each chapter will be different folded posters. Or the whole book (which is divided in two parts) will be folded in a special way. We'll see. And! We only have to do one chapter and then show how the rest of the book would develop. 4 weeks to go. Excited!