EXPSD is a capstone publication that explores the relationship between design, tactility, and spatial experience. The project investigates how visual communication can translate architectural thinking into print. Material choices, sequencing, and structure convey ideas of space and exposure. The final piece operates as both a visual and tactile artefact. It reflects on how design can engage the senses beyond surface aesthetics. Through deliberate contrasts in texture, weight, and transparency, EXPSD transforms the act of reading into a physical experience.
EXPSD explores how design can engage the senses beyond surface aesthetics. Through contrasts in texture, weight, and transparency, it transforms reading into a physical experience.
The finished book embraces a restrained yet layered approach to form-making. Page compositions, folding structures, and the interplay of light and shadow work together to create rhythm and spatial depth within the publication. By leaving certain bindings, textures, and inner layers visible, the design adopts a language of honesty. The process is acknowledged as part of the final aesthetic. The visual identity of EXPSD remains minimal but intentional. This grounds the conceptual theme of exposure within a refined, graphic framework.
The book embraces honesty in its making, leaving bindings and textures visible. The minimal identity grounds the theme of exposure within a refined framework.
"Design became a way of exposing process. Not hiding the making, but letting it speak."
This outcome evolved through extensive material experimentation. I tested various substrates, from translucent film and mesh to heavy stock and layered paper. I studied how tactility could represent spatial qualities. Each experiment informed the final structure, guiding how light passes through, how pages fold, and how the book feels in hand. The title, EXPSD, shortened from "exposed," encapsulates this process of revealing rather than concealing. Documented throughout my WordPress process journal, the project showcases how exploration and making became central to both the concept and craft of the final work.
Through extensive material experimentation, from translucent film to layered paper, I explored how tactility could represent spatial qualities. EXPSD reveals rather than conceals the process of making.
