Swimming / Where the Wild Things Are
Grad Project
52 pages, 6" x 9"
2010
This is a book I made paralleling two short stories, "Swimming" by T. Cooper and "Where the Wild Things Are" by Maurice Sendak. I began with "Swimming" and wanted to find an accompanying text that would focus the reader's attention on the idea of a journey taken to escape one's emotions, which led me to choose "Where the Wild Things Are."
The design is focused on the ideas of weight, drowning, and confusion, based on the heavy emotional themes of "Swimming." I kept the pages sterile and sombre to reflect this persistent feeling in "Swimming." "Where the Wild Things Are" is set like poetry to help the reader take a new perspective on this well-known children's story. The two stories meet in the middle of the book in a series of textures where the two texts mingle and overlap to varying degrees, reflecting their thematic similarities and differences.
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