The Fall of the House of Usher
The Fall of the House of Usher is a short story by Edgar Allan Poe in which the narrator is visiting his friend, Roderick Usher at his estate surrounded with mystery.
A sense of eeriness is evoked in the layout by the use of bold typography to create positive & negative space for the story to dwell inside & emphasise the feeling of being stuck in the estate. Some paragraphs lock & suffocate into each other, sentences topple down, letters crumble into a heap under the weight of the claustrophobic atmosphere the narrator is trapped in. A display (June Exp) and a sans serif typeface (Acumin Concept) along with the colour combination of three basic colours adds to the sudden unexpected disruptions.
This project was completed as part of Publishing Module led by Prof. Marco Innocenti for Masters Graphic Design in New Media at IED, Florence, Italy in 2022.
