project realized during:
the WHAT IF stories about the city
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intensive course of BOOK ILLUSTRATION
with marta kuper + carolyn Dinan
at Chelsea School of art and design,
london, summer 2009
[a 2 pages toy-book-by giorgia lupi]
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basically these minibooks are telling stories about the city..
this kind of stories allow you to immagine
WHAT IF the city was a toy to play with...
WHAT IF building could speak?
WHAT IF we could play with the time?
WHAT IF our mind could start dreaming?
to use and understand this book we have to force ourselves to clear our minds and start again.
the process of designing a product,
the process of designing a book, the process of "design" has to be thought of as telling a story, with a beginning, a developmente, and an end.
the idea of these minibooks comes from an imaginative and enjoyable way of making design, with the aim of creating scenarios about some possibly wokderful worlds outside the door, and with the aim of reaching both children and adults, hoping it could be a stimulus for playing together.
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index of the minibooks:
what if we had a city made of buttons?
what if we had a city made of food?
what if we could distort the city?
what if we had a city made of sound?
what if we could cut and paste the city?
what if we had a city made of colours?
what if we would do it ourselves?
[= instructions for building your own minibooks]
