ABOUT
GRAPHIC DESIGN
ALICJA WISNIOWKA
ANDREW KIM
ANGELA SUN
ANGIE WIJAYA
CARLYN SOARES
CHARLOTTE KERSHAW
CIARAN BRANDIN
CONGCONG WANG
ERIC RANDALL MARKUS
FIONA LIN
GABRIELA TIRADO
HEEYEON KIM
JIAYI MA
KABITA DAS
KAYLAH HAYE
MAUREEN BURNS
YIAN ZHAO
OLIVIA WILLIAMS
SARAH CUMMINGS
SARAH PERKINS
SHARON ZHONG
SKYLER TSE
VALENTINA WICKI
WENJING LIU
PAINTING
BRIDGETTE REILLY
ELANNA HONAN
ELLEN KANELLIAS
GREY LENNON
HANMO ZHOU
KIMBERLEY ZAK
OLIVIA JAMES
TIMOTHY JAMES BERGERON
XIAN MARIE AZU-BOLES
PRINTMAKING
LEO FEININGER
MICHAEL LAUNGJESSADAKUN
SCULPTURE
BARBARA KANG
DEVIN WILSON
NINA MILLER
SOFIJA CHRONEOS
SCULPTURE
BARBARA KANG
DEVIN WILSON
NINA MILLER
SOFIJA CHRONEOS
ERIC RANDALL MARKUS
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The title of the book is The Word ‘No’ Has Feelings Too. The premise is essentially a joke: what if we play God and turn the flat, imaginary thing we call a word into a conscious, physical being? And why don’t we make it No? Just because it seems doomed to fail. Then, what if we play with the definition of the word No and No’s identity? How can we short-circuit this system from the inside-out?
The idea wasn’t to make No say things like “Yes, sir,” or “Absolutely in the affirmative,” or whatever—the idea was to put No in front of the mirror, reading itself, then simultaneously thinking and saying to itself, “No.” There’s something existential about that. It’s like a black hole. Embodying who and what you are immaculately... then who and what you are is “No?” I had to ask myself—do I know this person?
I suppose if I’m to take this statement thing seriously, I need to stress that the book is meant to be a laugh. That’s the whole reason I made it in the first place, so I can flip through it and thank God that a creature like ‘No’ doesn’t actually exist.
ericmark.us
The title of the book is The Word ‘No’ Has Feelings Too. The premise is essentially a joke: what if we play God and turn the flat, imaginary thing we call a word into a conscious, physical being? And why don’t we make it No? Just because it seems doomed to fail. Then, what if we play with the definition of the word No and No’s identity? How can we short-circuit this system from the inside-out?
The idea wasn’t to make No say things like “Yes, sir,” or “Absolutely in the affirmative,” or whatever—the idea was to put No in front of the mirror, reading itself, then simultaneously thinking and saying to itself, “No.” There’s something existential about that. It’s like a black hole. Embodying who and what you are immaculately... then who and what you are is “No?” I had to ask myself—do I know this person?
I suppose if I’m to take this statement thing seriously, I need to stress that the book is meant to be a laugh. That’s the whole reason I made it in the first place, so I can flip through it and thank God that a creature like ‘No’ doesn’t actually exist.