0HLDYS : oldies
. the making
I was inspired by Mao Ze Dong's little red book. LIke how it is transient through times from it taking a historical context to some form of fashion and art accessory today. The little red book lodges his ideals and beliefs and is all text. I see it as an historic item, one which is nostalgic, but still cool today.
OHLDYS looks at 1990s, a period which I was growing up a decade ago. The transient times, people, and rapid technological advances allows a hovering nostalgia over me today, on those moments.
I want this book to transgress time and space, just like Mao Ze Dong's litle red book. This book focuses on vintage and rather retro illustrative style. Also interested in a vinal record packaging, OHLDYS will also includes a CD, with the form of this book reproducing various sensations of the 1990s.
I did one for 'Mao Ze Dong' little red book for myself, 'copying' his concept. I superimposed my face, give an 'Mao Ze Dong' expression, and the chinese text writes Chairman HU's exerpts and quotations.
This was printed using a dot metric printer on a triple side carbon paper (first layer pressed on by printer, second layer bring carbon, third layer being transferred on). Above is the second(left) and third layer(right). The many 'punch holes' at the side makes it extra retro. Still thinking if I should have the whole book on a scroll with this sort of paper, but it deviates from my concept to make it like a vinal record.
Mao Ze Dong's little red book
More experiments with the dot metric printer. The illustration I was thinkin of a ferris wheel holding this element parallel to the 3,6,9,12 concept of time.
I am interested in this form of sophisticated packaging for OHLDYS. Making the book with a CD, and making it looks like a 'vinal record' also informs how music is a form of art and time. I wanted such elements in OLDYS.
Perhaps this sort of layout?
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