This publication was created as a response to the project brief (of the HND Graphic Design Course) about a retrospective of an author from Term 1 Digital Making module. Lafcadio Hearn was the chosen author. The aspect about the Lafcadio Hearn’s life chosen for this project was about the fact that he lost the sight of an eye and had an affected vision on the other. A research was conducted about how people with this vision disability see things, how images are perceived.

The content of this publication results in different levels of opacity of the same colors, black and flourescent pink, verified in body text and in drop caps. 

To every chapter a drop cap or an initial word from the story is applied with a maximized size and eye vision disability effect. The spectables inspiration was used to zoom in some elements of the letters in body text and in drop caps.

The chosen typefaces reflect the inability to see, and how a defective vision would look like. Libre Baskerville was chosen for the body text, due to it’s effectiveness and readability. Adequate light was chosen for Headlines, special quotes and book title on top of every page. This type has a strong geometric potential, perfect for the theme of this publication. The geometric allows to play with shapes and opacities without losing the perceptiveness of what is written.

One eyed people often tilt to one side and the body is shifted to where the working eye is (exactly what Lafcadio did before). The body text of this publication was tilted to one side as well leaving the right side (the major part) of the pages with 1 column space with white space.

The body text is often treated with repetition of the text columns  with different opacity levels and sizes, to represent the way people with eye disabilities have dragged vision or see in double.

In some body text the intention was to play with focus like the “Animation of Sinusoidal Waves” by Etienne Jacob, in which the center is focused and everything around is unfocused. The letters of the drop caps were broken into parts and it looks like it is spreading. 

The chapter numbers were also broken into fragments and it is giving the idea that it is incomplete but clear enough to understant which number it is. The transparent page in the beginning of each chapter allows transparency and the intention is to see the next page through the paper. The numbers printed on each page of this paper have the task of going over the next page resulting of each number flipped horizontally. The final result is a nice pattern. When this page is turned to the left the number is seen on is normal position, and when is turned to the other page is seen flipped horizontally and umperceptible. This example is based on people with vision problems, more directly associated with myopia.