"Stories of Migration" Book Design

The brief for this project was rather straightforward. The goal was the creation of a work celebrating the topic of migration through typography, while the actual term “migration” was left open to the interpretation of an individual. The brief was issued by ISTD as a part of their annual student awards programme.

In its basic definition, migration is movement from one part of something to another. Keeping that in mind, everything can migrate, from an individual taking a trip from their bed to their kitchen, to the linear passage of time, starting before anything we know yet existed and leading us to the point where we might find ourselves now.

I decided to present migration as something rather natural. I conducted interviews with 5 people coming from the countries of Ex-Yugoslavia, who now live outside their birthplace. I turned those interviews into stories and created a book that illustrates each journey through typography.