The idea of this project was to make a book that cannot be read. By this I mean it is full of information that is practically ‘invisible’. The specs you see throughout this book are confessions from my peers, written and sent to
me in confidentiality in the form of PDF. How was this done? Through a typeface that does not appear on InDesign on any of our computers - instead showing as small sqaures. These secrets and confessions were then printed out, shredded, soaked in water then transferred into a large tub of water to be turned into paper. The secrets that were once written can no longer ever be read.
Sustainable screen?
With this project I was aware of a sustainability element. Although I was making my own paper, I began the project digitally designing and printing the text onto regular printer paper. I wanted to consider the carbon footprint of this, as while printing itself only produces 1% of all carbon emission, ICT (the computer element) produces another 6%. So instead, for this book I decided to use all the mass amount of scrap newsprint that I had collected as a result of the cover page of ‘This will not be read’. This book is essentially made of all the offcuts from excess newsprint used in the screenprinting process.