Idea Development - Planning

As a way of linking both the website and book, and focusing in on the idea that this is targeted at young creatives while hinting to the future to continue the element of a "dystopian future/alternate world" from my primary research, the end page of the book will reference a future where analog processes no longer exist to emphasise the importance of them to the reader. It will then link the website, suggesting that it's the digital version of the book however it will instead explore the idea that the message is lost through digital means - that analog is better. 

Analog	Digital
Cross Stitch	ASCII
Handmade font	Standard Font
Pressed Flowers	AI images
Physical book bind	Bland/blank webpage
Illustrations	Google AI
Lino print	Overly edited/scanned

• Beaded banner and clay outcomes will serve the purpose of showing how digital and analog processes intertwine however still lean towards analog processes being better.
• Clay - physical object/tangibility versus just the photos - meta that it cannot be communicated to viewer irl
• Beaded banner - needs to be planned out digitally for efficiency but beaded image won't be as tangible/visual as the physical outcome

Title of book is Meta to highlight idea of dystopian future but also be a reference to its own analog/tangibility.

meta

/ˈmɛtə/

noun

1. short for meta key.

adjective

US

1. (of a creative work) referring to itself or to the conventions of its genre; self-referential.

   "the enterprise is inherently ‘meta’, since it doesn't review movies, for example, it reviews the reviewers who review movies"