A System of Systems

Résumé du livre

This book was made in March 2023 as part of an undergraduate design studio for the Bachelor of Design - Communication Design program at RMIT University. The studio was called 'Making Books. Weird Systems.' and was run by Stuart Geddes. This studio explored the way we might work with systems and patterns and structures to make books that are at once familiar and strange. Books are built on systems for typesetting, for page composition, for print production, for distribution. They are also built on systems of reading, histories of usage, and challenges to all of these conventions. We make systems in order to manage complexity, or to generate clarity, but what if we made systems for different reasons? What if we made a system whose purpose was confounding, or poetic?