Following my MA thesis on the subject of margins, I chose to imagine an alternative layout to The Lifespan of a Fact (2012).
This book, written in a non-traditional format, can be divided into 3 layers of content:
1. What Happens There, an article by John D’Agata;
2. Its fact-checking by Jim Fingal;
3. Conversations between author, fact-checker and editor.
The ensemble forms an essay about authors' creative liberty opposed to journalism ethics.
My aim was to share my own reading experience by visually expressing the conflict and the importance of the positions taken throughout the book in order to guide readers towards a clearer understanding of the subject, while also transposing the main question of the book to my role as a graphic designer:
what liberties am I allowed to take as I retell someone else's work (and story)?
