Punched, Pressed, & Bound

“The implication that technologies are just conduits for information produced elsewhere both denies the material role technologies play in producing information and... assumes that information has an inherent shape and integrity independent of the system in which it is produced and consumed. Information is taken to be self- sufficient, self-explanatory, and self-legitimating. Yet... legitimation is always a central problem for information.”- Paul Duguid, 1996

One of the first questions I asked myself when I started this project was “Does the correct execution of skill legitimize content?” After this question came to mind, I realized that the main purpose for this project was to not only show all of the different elements that go into the making of a book, but also how the value of the book can be manipulated through its very own construction. I wanted to know why the efficacy of a book’s production challenged that which was actually inside of the book.

This following book is a product of various factors: my curiosity, my desire to express, an inability to be proficient when it was most needed, and an invitation of examination and response.

This project aims to explore a book’s purpose and its role in a society by looking at the process of bookmaking. It is not a “How To” manual but rather a measure of obsession. I realize this book exists in a world that is leaning evermore toward digital tendencies, but my hope for it is to allow people a pause in that trajectory. And during that pause, for people not only to consider the thought that went into each aspect of this book’s production, but also to ask for their consideration of itself. This book is meant to be inspected and questioned. The interweaving pages are meant to lose a reader and then to help them back out. In essence, this book is to tell not only of human introspection, but also of human error. And what happens creatively within that space.

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