La Biblioteca de Babel is a short story by Jorge Luis Borges,
included in the book Ficciones, from 1944.
In this story the world consists of an endless library, where there
are all the books with all the answers, but not all of them are easily
accessible, some being indecipherable due to their content or language.
Who guides this story is the narrator, a librarian in search of answers
Who guides this story is the narrator, a librarian in search of answers
to the mysteries of the universe he inhabits.
In this exercise, the proposal was to produce a bilingual publication
(in Portuguese and Spanish) of Borges' work.
The project should have an experimental character, using graphic
The project should have an experimental character, using graphic
and creative approaches that convey an interpretation of the work.
For these pages we used the Processing language. We inserted a series of data
referred in Borges' text in the program and images were generated.
This was an academic project carried out as part of the Typography course of the Master's
in Communication Design (Faculdade de Arquitetura da Universidade de Lisboa)
Team: Danilson Furtado, Inês Silva, Miguel Conceição, Teresa Carreira
Lisbon, 2021
