Past Present Future is part of a degree project which experimented with expressing individuality through unfamiliar graphic forms, using the body as a design inspiration.

This poster accompanies the book 'Past, Present, Future' which conveys the way in which the lines of the palm are unique and can be used as a description of your individuality - no hand (individual) is the same. Twenty-one year-olds were used as the control variable in the study in order to show the variety of the hand markings.

The illustrative posters of Ernst Haeckel, who drafted beautiful images of the microcosmic aspects of science, such as cells and insects, inspired the visual style of this poster.

 

Screen-print poster

palmlines poster

 

Close up

poster close up

 

This project is part of a body of work produced for my final BA degree study:

‘Re-presenting people as abstract structures and designs: an exploration into human identity and the possibilities of systems and experiments to produce unexpected descriptive outcomes.'

The body of work questions the way in which we think about identity and identifying. It combines science with design in order to reinterpret people and the methods in which we categorise ourselves and others. By using the human body as a system for design I have been able to promote obscure methods of categorisation. The individuality studies are research projects with graphic outcomes, ranging from books, posters and a film, that have been informed by experiment and collaboration.