Emma King rewrites George Orwell's 1984 using Donald Trump's tweets
London-based graphic designer Emma King has rewritten the first chapter of George Orwell's dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four using US President Donald Trump's tweetsÂ
Inspired by a resurgence of interest in dystopian literature and Trump's online activity, King used an online archive to navigate through more than 30,000 of the US president's tweets, before placing them amongst Orwell's text.
For the font, King chose Sabon ? a serif typeface commonly used for body text in books. "Using a serif font helps to re-contextualise the tweets away from their digital origins on Twitter, where they would be seen in a sans serif," she said.
"By setting the tweets in Sabon, as a traditional book would be, it treats them with the same sense of authority and legitimacy as a publishing manuscript, and provides a link to the literary nature of the constructed text, the narrative of Nineteen Eighty-Four," she continued.
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