SENSE OF NOTHING
Ideation * Editorial Design * Visual Storytelling * Graphic Design * Typoghraphy
SENSE OF NOTHING is a conceptual magazine that investigates the fragile boundary between perception and absence - the quiet cracks that emerge when our senses stop working in harmony. Through a minimalist visual approach and a carefully constructed editorial flow, it invites readers to experience disruption as a narrative - unfolding slowly, with intention, from balance to fracture.
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Ab-sense
This project was developed in the context of a Shared Campus course focusing on experimental editorial design in my visual communication studies.
The assignment was to create a monograph - a magazine centered entirely on one theme.
I chose to explore the human sensory system, not through its presence, but through its gradual breakdown. Each section examines the absence or disruption of a specific sense - sight, sound, taste, smell, or touch - and how that void reshapes experience.
The journey concludes with an open-ended exploration of intuition, framing the elusive sixth sense as both a question and an invitation.
The project brief was to design a monograph - a magazine entirely dedicated to one theme.
I chose to explore the five human senses - but with a twist, through absence and disruption.
I asked: what happens when sight fades? when taste disappears? when sound is gone?
The concept became an exploration of imbalance, silence, distortion, and adaptation.I gathered visual inspiration from both classic editorial design and experimental print layouts, combining clear grid structures with deliberate disruption, silence, and asymmetry.
The name SENSE OF NOTHING reflects the tension between what’s expected - a sensory overload - and what the magazine actually delivers: a visual and conceptual study of absence, contrast, and dissonance.
I designed the cover (and two more cover options) and full interior layout, including typographic hierarchy, image-text relationships, and a flow that mirrors the reader’s emotional progression through the theme. Every spread was treated as a space of interaction - between noise and quiet, structure and fragmentation.
The magazine was carefully structured to guide the reader through a narrative arc:
*Opening article introduces the harmony of the five senses
*Followed by a stark black spread with a single question, disrupting the flow
*Then, a series of essays, columns, and visual pieces - each focused on the lack or disruption of one sense: sight, smell, taste, touch, hearing
*Finally, a closing article explores the notion of the "sixth sense" - inviting interpretation and imagination
