Perfect Symmetry

Book Design

May - September, 2021

Whether it be humans or animals, life seeks to acquire 100% complete information through various senses. Depending on the environment, life forms can have highly developed vision like ostriches, smell like moles, or hear like bats. The various senses seem to have different mechanisms, but as this book says, they are connected to each other to achieve a balance that complements each part. Divided into a total of five parts, sight, hearing, smell, taste, and touch, this book seems to be separated. But in reality, all five parts are connected; not one is dominant, showing “perfect symmetry.” It is an art book containing research on how various senses have been interpreted and schematized using language, culture, graphics, and photography.

Through this book, I tried to show which fundamentals of the senses we should think about when we expand the realm of the senses to humans, non-humans, and even machines.

This is the intro page of the project with the title of the work and the human material texture, one of the graphics in the book. When the UV enters the mesh, the texture is mapped and it looks like a human, but the texture itself looks bizarre. You can see all of the human sensory organs and body at a glance, which is why I chose this method.