The Big Book of Bullshit Libru by Lisa Winstanley is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2020 A' Design Award d'Argentu in Stampa Competition Category.
ArgentuStampa· 2020
The Big Book of Bullshit Libru
Client: Lisa Winstanley
A' Design Award d'Argentu Winner in Stampa Category
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About The Big Book of Bullshit Libru
A publicazione Big Book of Bullshit hè una esplorazione grafica di a verità, a fiducia è e bugie è hè divisa in 3 capituli visualmente juxtaposed. A Verità: Un essai illustratu nantu à a psiculugia di l'ingannimentu. The Trust: una investigazione visuale nantu à a nozione di fiducia è The Lies: Una galleria illustrata di bullshit, tutti derivati da cunfessioni anonime di ingannu. U layout visuale di u libru hè ispiratu da u "Canon Van de Graaf" di Jan Tschichold, utilizatu in u disignu di u libru per dividisce una pagina in proporzioni piacevuli.
The Recognition
About the A' Design Award d'Argentu
The Big Book of Bullshit Libru hè un vincitore di u premiu A' Design Award d'Argentu, una ricunniscenza straordinariamente prestigiosa attribuita à i disegni di alta gamma, splendidi è impressiunanti. I vincitori d'Argentu sò opere tremendamente brillanti è estremamente creative chì illustranu l'espertisa, u talentu è l'acutezza eccezziunali di i so disegnatori. Si aspetta chì The Big Book of Bullshit Libru sia una opera maravigliosa di mostra, rimarchevulemente prufessiunale è prufondamente innuvatrice. Stu disegnu vincitore di u premiu A' Design Award d'Argentu hè una invenzione assai nutevule è ammirata chì benefizia è allarga i limiti di l'arte, di a scienza, di u disegnu è di a tecnulugia. The Big Book of Bullshit Libru hè una creazione assai invidiata chì evoca disideri, introduce sentimenti pusitivi è accende stupore è maraviglia.
Behind the Design
Press Kit
Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.
- Unique Properties
- The Big Book of Bullshit is a graphic exploration of truth, trust and lies and is divided into 3 juxtaposed chapters.
The Truth: An illustrated essay on the psychology of deception
The Trust: A visual investigation of the notion and fragility of trust. Exploring experimental mediums and malleable, tensile materials.
The Lies: An illustrated gallery of bullshit, all derived from anonymous confessions of deception - Dimensions & Packaging
- 235mm x 285mm finished size
198 pages - Tags
- Book Design, Layout, Typography, Illustration, editorial
- Production Technology
- Screen printed neon book cover with a white matt finish. High quality textured paper and quality binding for the inner pages. Outer case blind embossed with the word truth
- Design Challenge
- There were many creative challenges which were overcome in the creation of this book, from ensuring the anonymity of confessions of deceit, to finding suppliers that could print using in glow in the dark ink.
The main finding of this practice based research is that, everyone is full of shit! - Research
- Vision:
To enjoy creating design that invokes curiosity, creates conversation, makes people smile and is above all, honest.
Mission:
To contribute to a creative community, bound by the ubiquitous human trait of lying. Creating beautiful artwork from what is, essentially, an ugly aspect of human nature.
The central messages, which I wished to communicate: We All Lie
It is fundamentally ingrained in our nature and a necessary part of our societies structure.
Yet We Are All Quick To Judge
No matter how much we lie ourselves, there is a social paradox that forces us to negatively label those who are deemed liars. - Inspiration
- Dishonesty is a ubiquitous phenomenon that has become ingrained as a necessity for the successful function of our society. The overarching aim of this project was to provide a contribution to the understanding of the visual relationship between lies and truth. Encouraging viewers to investigate their own preconceived notions of truth, trust and deceit by fostering a dialogue of a dialogue of questioning and examination.
- Project Duration
- project started in 2014 in Kuwait and completed in 2017 in the UK Edited and revised 2nd edition designed and produced in Singapore, 2019
- Operation Flow
- This was part of a larger project. Lies were collected from an anonymous online confessional platform iliekit.com and subsequently illustrated and showcased in the third 'lies' chapter of the big book of bullshit
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