Heaven is Real: John Maus and the Truth of Pop (Edition 1)
I designed two editions of the essay. Edition one use as little agency as possible(Objective). Edition two requires to use as much agency as I would like(Subjective). The essay called ‘Heaven is Real’: John Maus and the Truth of Pop. John Maus is one of the most intriguing artists in the millennial wave of lo-fi pop, assembling his unique and intimate language from synth pop, disco, baroque classical and church music. Yet Maus’s work is much more than another exercise in retroist hybridity, and his overtures on truth and love are, upon further listening, no mere ironic posturing.
I felt heaven as if it were space in his song and book. So I decided the concept of two books as a voyage to space. Edition 1 made objective designs by using colors.(Less agency). It described the universe as a change in color. As the book begins with the earth, its background color turns dark. Also, photos that are starting from with spacecraft to the space.
Heaven is Real: John Maus and the Truth of Pop (Edition 2)
The pink lines are going through the book. The lines represent going somewhere, which is a more abstract and subjective design. The layout design of this book was freely designed to related with these lines.
