The Big Book of Bullshit Boek by Lisa Winstanley

The Big Book of Bullshit Boek by Lisa Winstanley is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2020 A' Design Award in Zilver in Drukwerk en Gepubliceerde Media Ontwerp Competition Category.

ZilverDrukwerk· 2020

The Big Book of Bullshit Boek

by Lisa Winstanley

Client: Lisa Winstanley

A' Design Award in Zilver Winner in Drukwerk Category

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The Design

About The Big Book of Bullshit Boek

De publicatie Big Book of Bullshit is een grafische verkenning van waarheid, vertrouwen en leugens en is verdeeld in 3 visueel naast elkaar geplaatste hoofdstukken. De waarheid: een geïllustreerd essay over de psychologie van misleiding. The Trust: een visueel onderzoek naar het begrip vertrouwen en The Lies: een geïllustreerde galerij met bullshit, allemaal afgeleid van anonieme bekentenissen van bedrog. De visuele lay-out van het boek is geïnspireerd op de "Van de Graaf canon" van Jan Tschichold, die in boekontwerp wordt gebruikt om een pagina in aangename proporties op te delen.

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award in Zilver

The Big Book of Bullshit Boek is winnaar van de A' Design Award in Zilver, een buitengewoon prestigieuze erkenning die wordt toegekend aan topontwerpen die prachtig en indrukwekkend zijn. Winnaars in Zilver zijn enorm briljante en uiterst creatieve werken die de uitmuntende expertise, het talent en de scherpzinnigheid van hun ontwerpers illustreren. The Big Book of Bullshit Boek wordt verwacht een prachtig paradepaardje te zijn dat opmerkelijk professioneel en diepgaand innovatief is. Dit ontwerp dat de A' Design Award in Zilver heeft gewonnen, is een hoogst opmerkelijke, bewonderde uitvinding die baat en de grenzen van kunst, wetenschap, ontwerp en technologie verlegt. The Big Book of Bullshit Boek is een zeer benijde creatie die verlangens oproept, positieve gevoelens brengt en verbazing en verwondering doet ontvlammen.

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