Written by Jeremy Fernando, I’m not ghosting you is a bricolage of poetry, prose, and photography that attempts to explore the notion of ghosts in our lives in its various permutations. Because sound, tonality and music are central to the writing, the design explores the idea of the book as sonic object, where readers are invited to flip through the book in a rhythmical manner by way of an edge index. Inspired by a navigation method from books designed in the mid-19th century, the sounds produced by flipping the pages creates ephemeral, ghostly traces of how a reader traverses through the text while at the same time leaving visible memories of what they have read. The cadence of the book can be experienced by rapidly flipping through the book and watching (and listening) to the symbols running down the foredge.
The cover and the symbology in the edge index are set in Morse code, an extension of the visual language in the second piece in the book, a conversation of dots and dashes over time. Both an optic and sonic manner of communication, Morse code deconstructs language down to a skeletal, ghostly yet universal form.
The design-led decision to annotate sections in prose with punctuation marks no longer used in publishing (i.e. the acclamation point and the interrobang) also keeps with the idea of death’s remnants — punctuation ghosts, if you like.