Exploring the relationship between glamour and banality within the American casino

Project
Casino

Type
Publication Design

Details

This book juxtaposes vernacular design with the nature of casino aesthetic through a mix of flickr photos, academic essays, travel forums, and remote interviews. Casino is a 200 page, swiss-bound book, printed on 100lb text gloss paper. The front cover uses gold cardstock paper and is embossed with French suit graphic symbols.

Year

2021

Book Thesis

These institutions balance the repulsive and the desirable, the distorted and the hyperreal–it is all broadcasted through casino’s vanity, caprices, and conspicuous materiality.

Book Structure

¹Arriving
²Entering
³Playing the Games
⁴Departing

Exploring the relationship between glamour and banality within the American casino

These institutions balance the repulsive and the desirable, the distorted and the hyperreal–it is all broadcasted through casino’s vanity, caprices, and conspicuous materiality.

¹Arriving
²Entering
³Playing the Games
⁴Departing

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Exploring the relationship between glamour and banality within the American casino

These institutions balance the repulsive and the desirable, the distorted and the hyperreal–it is all broadcasted through casino’s vanity, caprices, and conspicuous materiality.

1Arriving 2Entering 3Playing the Games 4Departing

︎︎︎ New York Times Audio

Terrain ︎︎︎

Lavi Tang’s Portfolio

View me on big screen!

︎

¹Arriving
²Entering
³Playing the Games
⁴Departing