This undertaking was an investigation of re-authoring a unique story by utilizing typographic conventions.
The book is a synthesis of Writing by Marguerite Duras and The Transformation of Silence into Language and Action by Audre Lorde. While the former is a personal account of the author's own feelings about the act of writing, the latter is the transcript of a public speech urging people–especially the minorities–to speak up and express themselves. Since they reveal striking dissimilarities, the two texts are deliberately juxtaposed, creating a duality of Lorde's powerful, expressive voice and Duras' introspective, sentimental confession.
Advised by Lucinda Hitchcock for Typography II class, Spring 2013, Rhode Island School of Design.
Selective pages from the final product. 5.5'' x 8.5''