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AXIS — The Book

Editorial design for the thesis volume that was written alongside the object: interviews, form studies, a taxonomy of futures, and every process photograph that did not make it onto the project page.

Editorial design Bookbinding Bachelor thesis · HTW Berlin · 2026

The book is set in German, which is why its chapter titles read the way they do. It was written while the object was being made, not afterwards: the chapters on the analogue–digital loop were drafted while the first silicone moulds were still curing.

Reading it is not required to understand AXIS. It is here because a thesis is a made thing too, and because someone always asks.

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