Tales in a sHoe box - playing WiTH Type

Abstract

A design project focusing on tunnel book compositions was conducted as part of the Technologies of Vector Drawing course at the University of Évora during the 2023/24 academic year. This study follows a descriptive case methodology, using Hans Christian Andersen’s narratives as its foundation. Students selected one of Andersen’s tales and created a scenic representation in the form of a tunnel book, housed in a 15x30x15 cm card box.These visual compositions incorporated typographic fonts of varying sizes to generate contrast. The students’ individual works were later combined to form a “wall of stories.” Upon project completion, the authors conducted a thematic analysis of the students’ project descriptions to evaluate their interpretation of the stories and determine if the romantic relationship with nature was evident in their work.