click to enlargeIn THE BOOK Project graphic designer Isabella Vaverka adds a new layer to her library. Each book is shrouded in a printed white cover that Vaverka uses to share a unique story or memory that relates to each book. What the book is about takes a back seat to how the book fits into her life.
click to enlargeThere’s the:
The Book In which I discovered a bill for the Beatles-record “Michelle”
The Book I’ve Borrowed from Someone
The Book I found in the Garbage…
The Book No One Has Touched For More Than 30 Years
Of the project Vaverka says:
Today there are thousands of possibilities to download literature in a digital form. Nevertheless I regard the book first of all as an object. My goal is to visualize my memories that are purely connected with these objects. I researched the identity of my own books without dealing with their content, but rather focusing on their history and my relation to the objects themselves. All these memories are fixed in a bookshelf that is adapted by a personal collection of literature
Recently on Book Patrol we covered book designer Ed Marquand’s essay On Spines and Memories which begins “Scan your bookshelves. Consider the spines. Connect one to a specific memory. It’s easy.”
Vaverka has taken this to the next level by transforming her library into a personal trip down memory lane.
Thanks to Design Milk for the lead