February 2014
Understanding Comics wall collage
by Bret Victor
What would it be like to read a book while seeing the entire book at once? These two chapters of Scott McCloud's Understanding Comics were taped to the wall for the Lab-warming party (2014). The pillows on the ground were for comfortable kneeling.
Because the pages were designed for book-reading, they only work well when viewed up-close. Not much structure can be seen when standing at a distance.
The shortcomings of this collage inspired later multi-scale designs, such as the Scott McCloud stages poster (2014) and the Seeing Spaces poster (2014).