Project Description
Legibility is not neutral. To make something legible is to decide what can be seen and what remains unclear. Design participates in systems that regulate visibility. What (who) is allowed to be legible?
Legibility by Control, a small booklet, explores ideas of legibility in design and sociology; questioning the ways in which “legibility” – with it’s various meanings – can be interrogated, resisted and potentially challenged. To do so, the booklet uses the textural qualities of risograph printing, in order to push the boundaries of legibility in a more tactile and tangible manner.
Tutorial Discussion
- Consider ways in which riso can be used more directly to create textures, instead of external softwares – eg. with redacted text
- Legibility as influenced by risograph techniques
- Using the tool more explicitly
- Fingerprints and interaction with material
- Legibility as shifting (i.e. map page)
- Maximage – eg. with settings used (as a reference book)
- Consider pagination or effects specific to specific spreads etc.
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