The East India Company Seal
2014
A publication about the East India Company Seal displayed at the British Museum.
Each page, as shown below, was printed as an A5 letter and sealed in an envelope. The publication was bound as a stack of envelopes, tied together with a red wax string.
Medium: Black ink drawings on 150gsm paper, text and images added to on Adobe InDesign to create a full publication.
A seal; a mark of identity, an object with unique characteristics, an original object in a world filled with mass production. It remains as something that is not ink based and holds a sense of individuality, weight, meaning and purpose. Still used in present day, a seal is now defined as a rare object and is more appreciated for its aesthetically pleasing authenticity.
The East India Company seal represents a unique moment in history, the treaty between Bengal and Britain. It carries the weight of a significant moment that states the imposing treaty that so greatly has affected the present day. The creation of the treaty and it's consequent overrule, not only changed the outcome of those two countries, but also the generations that followed.
