For the second year of FdA Graphic Design, I was set a summer project entitled “I am me … what shall I be?”. This intriguing brief asked thirteen random personality questions and asked to answer them in a ‘creative format’ to be sent by post. Questions included random ones such as “What would your name be if you were a Red Indian?” to interesting ones like “A word you didn’t know the meaning of until now” but also more personal ones like “A smell that reminds you of home”.
I chose to do my answers as illustrated Russian Matryoshka dolls. I arranged the questions and answers so that the more personal the questions get, the smaller the dolls get. This replicates the Russian dolls and means that the most personal and guarded answers are concealed within and hidden at the centre. It also makes it more enjoyable for whoever is interacting with this piece as they read the boring bits first and it gradually gets more interesting. I used alternate folding to recreate the sense of opening Matryoshka dolls, as I couldn’t create 3D ones to fit into an envelope.
front with sleeve
alternating folds and decreasing doll size inside
group shot of all thirteen of the dolls
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