THE MACHINE STOPS
An underground world, where humans only relay on the machine.
Made by them, Isolating them,
but,
as the machine fails, so do the people.
The Machine Stops by E.M. Forster in 1909, is a science fiction short story of 12,300 words, about a dystopian world that derived from the insurgent of technology and it's downfall, predicting today's new technologies such as instant messaging and the internet. The novel is set
in a post-apocalyptic world where life solely exist underground, with the heavily reliance on a giant machine to facilitate our human needs.
The aim of this project was to redesign the short story, into a new book giving it a new life, with typographic experiments to enhances the reading experience in a fun and exciting way that reflects the context of the story.
There are 3 Chapters:
1. The Air-ship
2. The Mending Apparatus
3. The Homeless
1. The Air-ship
2. The Mending Apparatus
3. The Homeless
Looking at the characteristics and physicality of the machine, I decided to look into the traditional methods of printing and becoming the machine itself by screen printing the entire short story. With this method, came with many problems but because of the nature of screen printing, I was pleased with the errors that silk screen printing provided and it suited the contexts of the novel.
