As a visual communication designer engaged in improving the reading experience, I set out to examine hidden layers in the book object.
Readers leave traces on the book indicating the interaction between them and the book. Through a series of experiments involving locating amino acids on books, mapping fingerprints and comparing them with evidence of bacteria growth, findings emerged that depicts hidden layers on books. For example: The number of readers who held a book, Bacterial configurations that indicate the time spent with the book, and ways of using the book through identifying food traces on recipe books or flowers that dried between pages.

This project was created as part of a cooperation between the Industrial Design graduate program at Bezalel and the Institute of Chemistry at the Hebrew University.