Natalie's School Day

I have had another thought as to how you might approach your project. Identity is also formed through the cultural practice of story telling. As a designer you may be interested in how cultural conventions are used in constructing stories or narratives of identity, and, how design subsequently uses visual language to communicate those conventions visually. - Caroline

“What an astonishing thing a book is. It’s a flat object made from a tree with flexible parts on which are imprinted lots of funny dark squiggles. But one glance at it and you’re inside the mind of another person, maybe somebody dead for thousands of years. Across the millennia, an author is speaking clearly and silently inside your head, directly to you. Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions, binding together people who never knew each other, citizens of distant epochs. Books break the shackles of time. A book is proof that humans are capable of working magic.” - Carl Sagan

There are several themes that you could explore: Making, Material, Readership, Language. - Caroline

The key words I take from Sagan's quotation are the descriptors flat, flexible, and that the book has the capacity to 'break the shackles of time'. - Caroline

For me the key phrases would be "one glance at it and you’re inside the mind of another person", "an author is speaking clearly and silently inside your head, directly to you" and "binding together people who never knew each other".