The Big Book of Bullshit Leabhar by Lisa Winstanley

The Big Book of Bullshit Leabhar by Lisa Winstanley is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2020 Duais Airgid A' Design Award in Dealbhadh Meadhanan Clò-bhuailte agus Foillsichte Competition Category.

AirgeadClò-bhualadh· 2020

The Big Book of Bullshit Leabhar

by Lisa Winstanley

Client: Lisa Winstanley

Duais Airgid A' Design Award Winner in Clò-bhualadh Category

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The Design

About The Big Book of Bullshit Leabhar

Tha foillseachadh Leabhar Mòr Bullshit na sgrùdadh grafaigeach air fìrinn, earbsa agus breugan agus tha e air a roinn ann an 3 caibideilean le sealladh lèirsinneach. An Fhìrinn: Aiste le dealbhan air saidhgeòlas mealladh. An t-Urras: sgrùdadh lèirsinneach air an urras beachd agus Na Lies: Gailearaidh le dealbhan de bullshit, uile a’ tighinn bho aideachadh gun urra mu mhealladh. Tha cruth lèirsinneach an leabhair a’ faighinn brosnachadh bhon “Van de Graaf canon” aig Jan Tschichold, a chaidh a chleachdadh ann an dealbhadh leabhraichean gus duilleag a roinn ann an cuibhreannan tlachdmhor.

The Recognition

About the Duais Airgid A' Design Award

Tha The Big Book of Bullshit Leabhar air Duais Airgid A' Design Award a bhuannachadh, aithneachadh gu math urramach a bheirear do dhealbhaidhean den chiad ìre, àlainn agus drùidhteach. Tha buannaichean Airgid nan obraichean anabarrach boillsgeach agus gu math cruthachail a nochdas sàr-eòlas, tàlant agus geurchuis an luchd-dealbhaidh. Thathar an dùil gum bi The Big Book of Bullshit Leabhar na obair mhìorbhaileach, na sàr-eisimpleir a tha gu sònraichte proifeiseanta agus gu domhainn ùr-ghnàthach. Tha an dealbhadh seo a bhuannaich Duais Airgid A' Design Award na innleachd glè fhaicsinneach, ion-mholta a bhrosnaicheas crìochan ealain, saidheans, dealbhaidh agus teicneolais. Tha The Big Book of Bullshit Leabhar na chruthachadh air a bheil mòran eud, a dhùisgeas miannan, a bheir faireachdainnean math agus a thogas iongnadh is miorbhail.

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