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The Big Book of Bullshit Libro by Lisa Winstanley

The Big Book of Bullshit Libro by Lisa Winstanley is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2020 A' Design Award de Prata in Deseño de Medios Impresos e Publicados Competition Category.


PrataImprenta· 2020

The Big Book of Bullshit Libro

by Lisa Winstanley

Client: Lisa Winstanley

A' Design Award de Prata Winner in Imprenta Category

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The Design

About The Big Book of Bullshit Libro

A publicación Big Book of Bullshit é unha exploración gráfica da verdade, a confianza e a mentira e está dividida en 3 capítulos xustapostos visualmente. A verdade: un ensaio ilustrado sobre a psicoloxía do engano. The Trust: unha investigación visual sobre a noción de confianza e The Lies: Unha galería ilustrada de tonterías, todas elas derivadas de confesións anónimas de engano. A disposición visual do libro está inspirada no "Canon Van de Graaf" de Jan Tschichold, usado no deseño de libros para dividir unha páxina en proporcións agradables.

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award de Prata

The Big Book of Bullshit Libro gañou o A' Design Award de Prata, un recoñecemento enormemente prestixioso outorgado a deseños de gama alta, fermosos e impresionantes. Os gañadores Prata son obras tremendamente brillantes e sumamente creativas que ilustran a pericia, o talento e a agudeza sobresaíntes dos seus deseñadores. Espérase que The Big Book of Bullshit Libro sexa unha obra marabillosa, escaparate de oficio, notablemente profesional e profundamente innovadora. Este deseño gañador do A' Design Award de Prata é unha invención moi notable e admirada que beneficia e fai avanzar os límites da arte, a ciencia, o deseño e a tecnoloxía. The Big Book of Bullshit Libro é unha creación moi envexada que esperta desexos, achega sentimentos positivos e prende asombro e marabilla.

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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