Past-Present-Future

Front cover with bellyband detail

Palmbook Cover

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 book accompanies the poster 'Palm lines of the twenty-one year-old' 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.The book below considers the way palm lines are used in art of palmistry, as a method of describing an individual's life and characteristics. Each photograph of a hand appears with a reading of the person's past, present and future.

Past Present Future Spread

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.