WORLD WIDE WEB
Fall 2024
“World Wide Web” was a project inspired by unethical business practices relating to online user privacy and data.
The Type2 class of Keene State College designed magazines using text from privacy policies of popular companies, including Google, Snapchat, and Facebook.
A web of magazine parts and company CEOs was constructed using red twine, thumbtacks, and printed materials. The idea was to draft an artistic cover and back that would help to weave the individual vision of each student into a collective and powerful compilation while simultaneously, as a matter of principle, evoking critical thought and action.
It was imagined that the CEOs were “spiders” sitting at the edges of a massive web created for the sole purpose of trapping and “consuming” personal data as users interact with the companies and products.
Interstitial pages were threaded throughout the book as section identifiers.
Close-ups of the cover were included to be added to the interstitials as the recto or verso, depending on the layout.
This is a gallery of alternative and previous cover iterations (not in any particular order).
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