Category: Book Design with Multiple Materials for Tactile Perception
I actively study the relationship between mental well-being and environmental factors in design. I’m engaged with the incorporation of natural and tactile materials in art and design artifacts to better express emotions, which was inspired by my grandma, who with her Alzheimer’s disease, still longs for touches despite her loss of memory. Her emotional changes with touches enlighten my journey of capturing and analyzing tiny phenomena in daily life into my design collections so to speak to a larger audience. In my senior project Different You, I desire to remind modern people of the joy of being loved. I arranged the surprise elements in my life into gray-brown sketching, combined with colorful pictures to make collages to create a narrative book with happy and warm memories.
In this “touchable” narrative book full of rustic memories, artifacts made with embroidery, wood cutting, die-cut technology, laser printing, and old-style book binding with translucent sulfuric acid paper, vellum paper, silk, cotton sheeting, and Supima single knit, ropes, transparent mylar, tunnel book constructions, and wooden book spine, are applied to overlay textures and add hierarchy, visual interest, and interactivity to the story.
Door Design: I adjusted different parameters on the laser cutting machine to gain die cut on wood, cardstock, and vellum Paper. The door handle is replaced by a Bowknot Shaped hemp rope, which means it is a precious gift. The door can be opened from the middle when the rope is unlocked, and then the title page will be displayed.
Binding: wooden book spine replaces signatures in coptic stitch to make sure each spread is not affected by stitching thread.
