Dylan Greif Designer

Alan Burack Interviews Alan Lightman about his novel Einstein’s Dreams

RISD, Typography Studio, 2010

– Book. Recently, I’ve returned to this idea of the designer slash writer as one who creates reading experiences. I think that in today’s media landscape, the book is one of an increasing variety of reading experiences. As more emerge, I think readers and viewers will be more conscious of the distinct formal and structural features. In 'Alan Burack Interviews Alan Lightman about his novel Einstein’s Dreams', I extract brief fragments from the original interview and set them in a book. The image in every spread of the book is a spread of a book. The reader’s hands folder over the image of another reader’s hands. Sometimes, there is a one-to-one correspondence between the two. Sometimes, the images of hands are in disarray. Sometimes, the page numbers are consistent, and sometimes they are in reverse. [scroll down]