Hybrid Comic Book, Architectural Design & Apparel / 2022-present
Team: Joanna Poupaki, Alexandra Tamiolaki & Santianna Stathopoulou
Concept, Editorial & Graphic Design, Self-publishing,
Visual Identity, Social Media Content & Personal Branding
If you could picture yourself inside of your own feelings, what colors and sequences would they have?
HYBRID COMIC BOOK
Originating from the design of a Museum of Emotions where every room is an emotion, a silent project using comic strips to visualize the visitor experience, Senstation a hybrid architectural and illustrated comic book was created.
In a subway, a stop leads the passenger to an mental world journey, where each space represents an emotion. In an interactive and playful way, the readers navigate through feelings-stops by empathizing with the comic’s main character. They explore the spaces and their inner world. They recall feelings coming from a warm embrace, to the unbearable weight of loss.
Translating the experience of navigating through the museum, where one can choose which spaces they will enter and in which order, the structure of the book incorporates a bookmark system, each bookmark being an entrance to a different emotion.
Aside from bilingual introductory texts, the book is silent and all spaces portrayed are open to interpretation by the reader.
The final section is a free space for the reader to write, draw, tear and paste, expressing their feelings and adding to the interactive experience.
At the end, resembling a map, a solutions section of a crossword book, the reader finds the index, containing the complete architectural design and description of the spaces they just explored.
VISUAL IDENTITY & APPAREL DESIGN
ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN
The origin of Senstation was the design and visualization of a Museum of Emotions where every room is an emotion. A silent project that utilized comic strips to explain how the visitor navigates through the space and experiences each ambience.
Placed in an urban environment, with access through the underground metro system, the visitor is isolated from other surroundings and finds themselves disembarking at an unexpected stop.
Passing through the reception, the visitor enter a long hall with a hall of positive emotions on one side and negative emotions on the other. The order of the emotions is inspired from how we come to know our emotions through the various stages of life, childhood, adolescence and adulthood. One can visit them in order of appearance or appeal, return to one room after visiting another and so forth.
Three architects, one collective project and lots (lots!) of conversations regarding the color, texture and feel each feeling could have, transport the body to an inner space of itself. The emotional one.
