r/PLACE
BOOK DESIGN — 2023
This project involved designing a book cover and page layout that would best represent the artistic social experiment held on the subreddit Place.
r/Place is an experiment (held on reddit) that was created on April 1, 2017 where users had the opportunity to place one pixel of colour every five minutes on a digital canvas consisting of five hundred million pixels. The experiment lasted for four days, but was recently brought back on April 1, 2022. On each occasion, what started off as a blank canvas eventually turned into an array of different artworks.
So the main challenge of this project, was to find a way to bring something digital that was in constant movement into a physical format.
Left Image— Logo of the original 2017 experiment
Right Image— Logo of the 2022 and 2023 experiments
Images sourced from Wikipedia.
Left Image— Final Canvas in 2017
Right Image— Final Canvas in 2022
Images sourced from Reddit r/Place
The r/Place cover captures the constant movement, that was the experiment, by using a lenticular image that flips between a section of the finished canvas and the logo on a white background.