I took Alain Resnais' Toute La Mémoire du Monde and translated it from its original form of a short film into a book.
Inside of book featuring Victorian style endpaper, inspired by the film's historic content.
Front cover of book
Spine and front cover detail
Inside of book. The film is about the sorting of a French library as a metaphor for the sorting of information in the human mind. I wanted to portray this concept by sorting the film's manuscript into different sections.
Concertina folded sections displaying both the original French manuscript and the translated English manuscript.
Illustrator file of border to be lasercut.
Lasercut border. I rolled gold paint over it and stamped it onto my book cloth.
Printed "bookmark" (front)
Illustrator designed "bookmark" (front)
Back of "bookmark" explaining the design choices made to reflect the concepts shown in the original film.
