The Big Book of Bullshit Liber by Lisa Winstanley

The Big Book of Bullshit Liber by Lisa Winstanley is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2020 Praemium A' Design Award Argenteum in Typographia Competition Category.

ArgentumTypographia· 2020

The Big Book of Bullshit Liber

by Lisa Winstanley

Client: Lisa Winstanley

Praemium A' Design Award Argenteum Winner in Typographia Category

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The Design

About The Big Book of Bullshit Liber

The Big Book of Bullshit publication is a graphic exploratio veritatis, fiduciae ac mendacii et dividitur in 3 capitula visibiliter apposita. The Truth: An illustratum opusculum de Psychologia deceptionis. The Trust: visual investigation on the notion of trust and The Lies: An gallery of bullshit illustratus, omnia orta ex anonymis confessionibus deceptionis. Inspiratio visivae libri ab Jan Tschichhold scriptor "Van de Graaf canon" sumit, in libri consilio ad rationem dividendam pro proportionibus placendis.

The Recognition

About the Praemium A' Design Award Argenteum

The Big Book of Bullshit Liber victor est Praemii A' Design Award Argenteum, honoris eximie amplissimi formis summi generis, pulchris et conspicuis dati. Victores Argenti opera valde splendida et creandi ingenio praedita sunt, quae praestantem peritiam, talentum et acumen auctorum suorum ostendunt. Exspectatur The Big Book of Bullshit Liber opus mirabile, exemplare, valde professionale et penitus novum fore. Haec forma Argento victa inventum notabile et admiratum est, quod ad fines artis, scientiae, formandi rationis et technologiae promovendos confert. The Big Book of Bullshit Liber creatio est, quam multi invident, quae cupiditates excitat, sensus bonos affert et admirationem miraculumque movet.

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