explore, seek, find

Explore, Seek, Find is a bespoke handbound book of 40 typographic explorations of Jack Garratt’s song, Surprise Yourself. There were eight exercises in total in which each had a unique set of restrictions and within those restrictions I created five unique single covers expressing the song through type.

The 40 typographic designs culminated in the creation of a book that displayed all the designs and would incapsulate the ideas and design elements explored by each exercise. The song speaks of reaching outside of known boundaries to discover the unknown, so I made the bold decision to fold each page back to obscure the design. This invites readers to unfold each page to uncover the full design.

While creating test prints of pages of the book, I noticed that since I had chosen a thin paper, the printing on one side would ghost to be seen on the other side. I enjoyed the effect of what printing on the frontside could have on the backside and chose to emphasize this by duplicating, mirroring, and reducing the opacity of each page to print on the backside. This created interesting interactions between the text printed on the front and the backside of the page as well as allowing readers to have an impression of the previous design.

Link to PDF of full designs and text.

Made in Typography instructed by Willem Henri Lucas.