Crimes Exemplares - Max Aub
This was a Project made for a module of the 3rd year of the Bachelor Degree in Design and Multimedia at the University of Coimbra. For this project we had to select a book from the list and create an editorial piece.
Exemplary Crimes is a book by Max Aub that doesn´t really fit exactly to just one literary category. "It is a collection of 130 assassinations, all done in good faith according to their perpetrator. Each is described by a phrase, a paragraph or a page maximum. Each is the confession of the murderer who tells how or why they killed their victim. They all have what they consider a good justification for their deed. They don’t feel guilty or they try to convince themselves that their victim deserved it. " - Book Around The Corner
The book is loaded with dark humor and ironies so for this project we decided the best approach was to make a children´s book with pull out tabs. The result was an object that was a bit ironic due to it´s duality of mixing a very grotesque theme with a very innocent object such as a book type usually made for children.
"He put an ice cube on my back, so the least I could was to chill him down too."
Some of the initial sketches
