2021: Voyage & Existentialism

Abstract

A study of the mind, the self, and the human condition. The project is a dissection of Graphic Design in its various disciplines, as a universal language of communication, and as an instrument of study, culminating four years of accumulated knowledge and practice in the field. The aim is to utilize much of what I have learned, to develop and structure a narrative and design a message in its denoted and connoted forms such that I can successfully communicate the various thematic elements and undertones to its recipient. The work challenges the boundaries of the publication format and the conventional structure of story, and explores the way in which artifacts hold value. The content is fragmented and dispersed across a range of disparate material enclosed inside a folio. Every part a puzzle piece, that sets the reader on a trail of their choice and asks them to investigate and assimilate the information provided by its parts, in order to make the story whole and uncover and complete the intended meaning behind it, through a non conventional, non sequential, and non linear form of progression. This provides the reader a unique experience of reception and reconstruction, whilst providing an opening for personal interpretation. The meaning is carried by a science fiction narrative, which provides a scope that enables us to see the world, and our place in the world, and the issues that have become far too embedded in the everyday that go by unseen, and thus providing an opportunity for commentary on these issues. The readers position however is not passive and detached but active and involved alongside the central character of the story, who holds up a mirror to the reader following along.