Elevator Stories
Year: 2003
Format: 40 × 58 cm
Credits: NODE Berlin Oslo
Archive #03001
The
Norwegian Competence Report creators wanted to produce a publication comprised
of stories rather than just facts - something ‘that could be told by someone in
an elevator’ - to accompany their reports. We proposed printing these stories
in a newspaper format. All the stories were laid out on one broadsheet page.
Every page of text contains one story, and in addition some excerpts from other
stories are highlighted, based on a series of systems. This was partly done to structure
the texts and partly to relate back to the theme of the Competence Report. The
texts were accompanied by a series of photos of people in an elevator trying to
avoid communication.