PLANTBOY

Between 1960 and 1980, Playboy magazine frequently published images of nude women in fields, forests and beaches. If photographed indoors, models were often surrounded by flowers and plants. Advertisements for cigarettes, cars, and beer often portrayed couples enjoying nature. Plantboy is a response to this trend in visual culture.

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Though on the surface Plantboy may resemble a typical Playboy magazine of the 1960s, it is, in fact, a deconstruction of the magazine genre.

Plantboy was featured in i-D.

Each page of Plantboy is French folded, but printed on both sides. Printing and binding the book in this way effectively hides half the content upon first viewing. However, with each issue, a small blade will be included with instructions on how to ‘deconstruct’ the book. With blade in hand, readers are encouraged to become explorers of printed matter, enabling them to see the ‘underside’ of the book. Structuring Plantboy in this way creates a type of visual polyphony; but it also becomes an experience beyond the visual, where every dimension produces meaning.

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