Topic

Reality & Virtuality.
Online/digital/virtual realities vs offline realities.

Questions - division of virtual and real life? is there a separation? should there be? what is virtual and what is real? 

Content

↗ The Digital Ruins of a Forgotten Future (~9000 words)

↗ The Virtual and the Real (~17000 words - with sources + footnotes)

✳ Might still add some pictures as I go

 Concept

The two publications gradually refer to each other more and become dependent on one another.

 Urgency

Now, in comparison to just 20 years ago, we seem to live more and more of our lives digitally (and this has especially proven true this year year, with a lot of aspects of everyday life moving to the digital sphere - school, events, etc.). However, this is not an entirely new phenomenon (it's been around since the popularisation of the world wide web), but I think it's relevant to talk about and (still) ask these questions. And I think they're become increasingly relevant as technology progresses.

Division of content

Start from print (black) - moving towards addition of web (red)
Text: The Digital and the Real

Start from web (black) - moving towards addition of print (pink)
Text: The Digital Ruins of a Forgotten Future

Visual language

✳ not fully developed yet

DIGITAL
- boxy
- grids
- smooth * as in the smooth screen/glass but also streamlined but also rounded corners on seemingly everything these days
- clean
- structured

- customisation
- permalinks

OFFLINE
- organic
- texture
- grain
- feel
- physicality

Sketches

Early web sketches

Current web sketches

Print sketches

Unfortunately not as developed yet :(

- Break the content down: question-answer
- index of all questions asked? 
- chapter index
- footnotes at the end (of the text) 

1st half = text that starts from the book (The Virtual and the Real) 
2nd half = addition to the web (different paper? - there should be some differentiation, but not too drastic)

~ beginning (inner side of cover?) - characteristics of real life
~ introduction? 
~ instructions on how to use? (this goes both for print and web) 

small moodboard

some examples i found online of the 'smooth' and clean and boxy digital aesthetic (I don't necessarily want to fully go with the stereotypical browser/OS window look, but want to subtly borrow from them)