About this project

Based on the story “The Library of Babel” by the Argentinian author Jorge Luis Borges, the goal was to create visuals inspired by this imaginary world.

In this project with the Library of Babel, I focused on its accessibility to the whole universe. When you enter the library, you have an infinity of possibilities. The choice is yours but you are still considered as ‘limited’ by your own interpretation, your own point of view. We can say there is not a unique truth but multiple truths depending on your background. I came up with the idea to create a card game where we could discover and have fun with cultural misunderstandings. The goal is to find from a visual point of view the cultural discrepancy. Each player must try to guess the situation, the story through the design. Once the players have decided, they can return the card to read a testimony of a person in the world who has experienced the cultural misunderstanding. The winner is the one who guesses the most stories correctly. Each illustration was made on Illustrator.