Flashforward Metaverse Encyclopedia
Group Project – IED Roma – Final Project
Academic year
2022
Flashforward is a speculative publication on the Metaverse designed by Eleonora Capodiferro, Valerio Stancati and Melania Ilari. A glossary that comes from the future, in which each letter of the alphabet explores a part of reality in an imaginary cyber-world.
The focus is on art direction: the interpretation is irreverent and dystopian. Students from Graphic Design course in IED Rome worked on objects, shapes and concepts that really exist in the real world, and they pushed them beyond the edge of the digital, shifting their semiotic meaning.
This project is conceived as an open project: the first 26 contents (from A to Z) of the encyclopedia of the future are shown here, in this book, but it can be expanded over time by designers who want to participate.
That's why the binding chosen is a ring mechanism, which would make it more convenient to update or expand the book. The cover, on the other hand, is a flexible PVC that attempts to reinvent the classic ring binding in a contemporary, futuristic way. In fact, the PVC generates a strong contrast with the steel of the rings and the softness of the paper.
