Vaporwave Aesthetics
Culture Book
Layout Design
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Printing & Binding
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Set Design
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Photography
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Layout Design 〰️ Printing & Binding 〰️ Set Design 〰️ Photography 〰️
Vaporwave is a subculture rooted in the internet. By manifesting its aesthetics in a physical form, this book breaches the dimensional limit of a culture born online and allows it to reach new audiences.
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The visual and aural aesthetics of the genre have always appealed to me, and as someone who tries to at least be more mindful of the time I spend online I resonate with the idea of ripping out an online culture and placing it in the physical world as a way of generating dialogue, just as the genre rips out renaissance sculpture and places it in a new context to generate dialogue.
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This book borrows its text from The Routeledge Companion to Digital Ethnography as well as the Aesthetics Fandom Wiki entry on Vaporwave, and organizes it into a compact book that features various self-shot photographs of marble statues collaged and manipulated with other common visual motifs seen in the genre. This book also acts as a shameless paper promotion for Red River Paper (which I love), playing into the ironic consumerism display that Vaporwave is known for. The resulting artifact was printed, cut, and bound by myself.
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Year ~ 2023
Adobe Illustrator
Adobe InDesign
Adobe Photoshop