ISTD Student Brief 2016/And the winner is...
Parallax is a critical reflection on the role of science in society. However, instead of exposing the editor’s point of view, three different storylines are presented and the overall message is left to the reader to be interpreted. Similarly, to James Joyce’s Ulysses, this publication relies on the concept of literary parallax by using different points of view to describe a multifaceted concept. Three distinctive typefaces and colours have been attributed to each storyline. Furthermore, to evoke the physical motion of changing “viewing station”, the storylines use different page orientations. The difficult-to-see interconnection between the storylines is achieved by the use of tracing paper for James Joyce’s novel and Josh Gross’ article. The layering of two spreads of tracing paper on the heavy stock used for Einstein’s paper creates a complex typographic mesh. It’s like a code that the reader needs to decrypt.
