The Word Counts
Brief: To create an artifact that successfully communicates the subject and content of your dissertation and celebrates the essay graphically and visually.
Idea: Design the layout of a book that aims to emphasise the message behind my dissertation by applying constructivist principles and visual language to my own work. This means that the design of it will not just be for aesthetic purposes but rather to further the argument behind my dissertation, that art and politics were intrinsically linked throughout the Russian Revolution.
Outcome: A hardback book that aims to represent how art and politics influenced eachother during the Russia Revolution. Constructivism aims to renounce the idea of art for art’s sake, a belief that I have attempted to mirror throughout this book. Each illustration employs the design language of this movement and is used to visualise what is discussed in the text. For example, in the second photograph, the box is meant to signify the four walls of a studio or museum, while the triangle - representing art and design - is seen breaking through these boundaries, as the artist is reimagined as an engineer.
Outcome: The intentions behind this book are to reinforce the appearance of art throughout everyday life, in order to reflect Contructivist ideology. It aims to imitate the flashes of Soviet propaganda that were consitent in household items, and therefore throughout daily life, from 1917 to 1930.
