Design Ropes

Design Ropes

Inspired by the carnival game where you get to pull on a rope to get a present, this book is the outcome of Designers encyclopedia project.

Inspired by the carnival game where you get to pull on a rope to get a present, this book is the outcome of Designers encyclopedia project.

During my design research, I didn’t only have to think about the form of the book but also how I would categorize the designers. I didn’t want to be the one to force the reader to read the book in a certain order. The idea of informing by surprising the reader was more appealing. With that in mind, I came up with the Carnival Game Concept. The reader would have to pull on a chosen rope and would get the lemma that was tied to the other end. The book turned into a box that would hold all the lemmas, but that was a little bit too simple. I still wanted the encyclopedia to look like a book so it would match and fit with other books the reader might have in their bookcase. And it would stay in the trend of surprising the reader when he or she opens it for the first time, seeing that it isn’t an ordinary book.

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