DUNE - "THE BANQUET SCENE" ACCORDION BOOK (GSA)
Dune- "The Banquet Scene" Accordion Book is the product of the project Thesis, Antithesis, Synthesis, a creative brief from my Mdes ComDes program at the Glasgow School of Art. It is an accordion book that explores the themes in chapter 16 of Dune, informally known as "the banquet scene." The project brief was to experiment in the design style/theory of a designer by selecting their manifesto to work in (thesis). The second part of the project was to select a design style/theory that challenged the thesis in some way and work within its design constraints (antithesis). The synthesis was the culmination of my findings from the thesis and the antithesis.
For my thesis, I explored the statement "function drives form" and explored Jan Tschichold's manifestos: The New Typography and The Form of the Book. In my antithesis, I explored the statement "form drives function" and used Ulises Carrion's manifesto: The New Art of Making Books.
The intention throughout this project was to focus on different methods of experimentation. I used several different techniques such as debossing, paper weaving, paper mechanics, illustration, and different methods of type manipulation.
The front cover of the book is debossed. I used the font from the first Dune, published in 1965 by Chiton Books and reimagined it into a new typeface. The images above show iterations and tests of the cover design.
The back cover of the book is paper engineered. Before you pull the tab, it shows the reader the title of the book and when you pull the tab, it reveals the authors name.
These images are a selection of spreads from one side of the book. The spreads were printed first, then lines of type were redacted, and then the spreads were manipulated in a flat bed scanner, creating organic, curves reminiscent of sand dunes.
These images are a selection of spreads from the other side of the book. I designed the layout using Jan Tschichold's grid system called the golden canon of page construction. As you flip through the pages, the grid system starts to deteriorate - columns break into paragraphs, paragraphs break into sentences, and sentences break into words scattering around the page.