Please Look in your books is a collection of 14 essays and 7 interviews about graphic designers. Before designing it, I had just bought Please Look in the Basement by Maarten Inghels; a collection of real flyers for missing pets found on the streets. Each page presents a new flyer, with its own unique and often amateurish design approach. This book became the foundation for my own project. I transformed the given text and put images into similar flyer formats, allowing the narrative to unfold across a sequence of visually distinct pages. 

The challenge for the reader is to follow the story as it jumps from flyer to flyer. Hence the title of my book, which urges people to really look inside their books. Inspired by the raw, DIY aesthetic of the original flyers, I experimented with handwriting, illustrations, and unconventional type placement.  

To echo the book’s origins, I printed and hung parts of it around my hometown allowing random passers-bys read fragments, just like you’d encounter a real lost-pet flyer. Finally, I turned the entire series of redesigned flyers into a video, capturing the book’s core message: encouraging others to read more and to pay closer attention to the graphic design of books.

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