‘Now You See Me Moria’ is a large-scale “Action Book”, consisting of 512 full-colour newspaper pages wrapped by a pink-and-black bold text softcover. An Action Book indeed, the newspapers can be taken out separately and displayed as an exhibition or used as protest posters (respectively at Stedelijk Museum’s “POST/NO/BILLS #2” exhibition and in several demonstrations). The book can be flipped through, revealing the plethora of designs that comes out well in this size and colour. In terms of design ethics, it might be worth asking what the value and impact of this kind of project is, and how the intentions relate to the result. Does the focus lie on strategic ways of making change, or is it more about giving the participants a good feeling? The variation in the content argues for both. On the one hand, the collection shows really strong, outspoken posters that seem to depart from an ethical starting point. On the other hand, some jury members found a part of the collection to be inappropriately flashy-style exercises that did not seem to engage with the topic beyond surface level.
‘Now You See Me Moria’ is a large-scale “Action Book”, consisting of 512 full-colour newspaper pages wrapped by a pink-and-black bold text softcover. An Action Book indeed, the newspapers can be taken out separately and displayed as an exhibition or used as protest posters (respectively at Stedelijk Museum’s “POST/NO/BILLS #2” exhibition and in several demonstrations). The book can be flipped through, revealing the plethora of designs that comes out well in this size and colour. In terms of design ethics, it might be worth asking what the value and impact of this kind of project is, and how the intentions relate to the result. Does the focus lie on strategic ways of making change, or is it more about giving the participants a good feeling? The variation in the content argues for both. On the one hand, the collection shows really strong, outspoken posters that seem to depart from an ethical starting point. On the other hand, some jury members found a part of the collection to be inappropriately flashy-style exercises that did not seem to engage with the topic beyond surface level.