Dear Google: print matters

Output of a Print Matters research group run by Rathna Ramanathan on the BA Graphic Design course at CSM. Dear Google, Print Matters explores the boundaries that printed matter currently inhabits – between the digital,ephemeral, technological and handmade.

Print Matters Interest Group, a group of BA Graphic Design students from Central Saint Martins, collaboratively produced Dear Google to explore the transition and (mis)readings when printed matter is made digital. The book is designed to be sent to Google to be scanned by hand and seen online as a digital book. Each bespoke page of this 'open letter' confronts the scanner (and the audience) with questions of the nature and ownership of content, and of how the book should be read and thus reproduced.