Class assignment: “Explain something modern/internet based to someone who lived and died before 1900”
Cardiff School of Art & Design student Rachel Walsh decided she would explain the Amazon Kindle to author Charles Dickens and submitted this project. She designed 40 miniature books and placed them inside of a hardcover book, a Victorian age metaphor for a portable reader.
“I made the book start to finish over five days, and it took about 35 hours to make I reckon. It was pretty painstaking cutting out all the gaps in the book itself, and making the books to go inside. They’re all bound like actual books, so as I waited for them to glue and dry I would design the covers for them. All the covers are copies of real book covers. They include many of Dickens’s novels, his favorite childhood books, and some of my own.”
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I'm sorry, but is Charles Dickens an idiot? It's kind of arrogant that we assume that someone from the past couldn't grasp today's technology. It would possibly be mind-blowing, but no more than someone from the future trying to explain a completely new thing to us.
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As a book lover and former art/design major, I love this!
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