Illustrated Information -Appendix

Self Published Print Run: 500 2019, Turkey
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Illustrated Information -Appendix
KartonKitap x Metehan Özcan

This is an object in a book form.

Deconstructing found images, collages appropriated of illustrations from various sources and photographs Özcan had taken, the book presents a map-like, indexical guide. The idea behind Resimli Bilgi -Ek is to let the book design itself in any book’s conventional journey on its way to become a “book”. Five 100x70 cm sized 16-page signature sheets have been treated as if they’re “walls” and images juxtaposed on these surfaces. The book, and its design, only reveals itself after these five sheets have been folded, cut and placed onto each other as pages. Thus, it was not the book that has been designed, but its condition “before being a book”.
By reversing the relationship between the mise-en-scene and mise-en-page, the book has been enabled to create its own visual language with a method based on a “calculated randomness”.