Consider this a parting peculiarity that would by far enable us to distinguish the sagacious from the easily content.
--Isa Pilapil 2005
ADDITIONAL NOTES: Due to the size of the booklet, it was a creative decision not to include the interior folds. It also wouldn't have done justice to the content. However, there is subliminal text type-written under the lyrics. A hint would be that it is a quotation from Aristotle, and no, I'm not going to give the answer away. Will you be discerning enough to find it?
Beyond the visual elements there are also subliminal implications. The projection plan actually represents a generic framework. Going back to the 'paradoxical grid' concept one may then assume that the main implication is: Everything is potentially deceiving --and this is how the design corroborates with the larger perspective : the band itself.
whatnot. As the CD's look was established --the design consequentially transformed and exceeded the original intentions. The first aspect of this is how it became a paradoxical grid. Seamless CD design has always been DD's trademark but in this case there is an additional illusion because the interior and exterior grids differ in size.
The DESIGN FOR THE BEAUTY OF DOUBT'S "THE NOTHING" CD is based on a projection plan for an empty room. The fonts were then digitally plotted based on the existing planes. Keeping the title in mind, the primary objective was to create the most disassociable design as possible --one that cannot be deemed as hardcore, punk or
