The Dawit Isaak Library · Sweden · 2025Design & Packaging · PR Stunts
The Bound Books Project.
Books bound on both sides turn censorship into something readers can physically experience.
- Brand
- The Dawit Isaak Library
- Agency
- BBDO Nordics
- Market
- Sweden
- Region
- Global
- Year
- 2025
Campaign images
The challenge
Make restrictions on reading and expression tangible for people who rarely encounter them in their daily lives.
The idea
The library creates editions of George Orwell's 1984 that cannot be opened because both edges are bound. Presented around Banned Books Week and circulated through educational and library settings, the object makes the absence of access the message.
Case study source: Gerety Awards 2026 Source ↗
Credits
- Client / Brand
- The Dawit Isaak Library · City of Malmö
- Copywriter
- Karan Nair
- Craft Director
- Oskar Ferm
- Design Director
- Andreas Silverblad
- Graphic Designer
- Satany Doughouz; Natalia Zieba; Linda Engström; Emelie Eriksson
- Photography
- Isabelle de Susini
- PR
- Hanna Sandström; Linnea Nordström
- Bookbinding
- Leonard Gustafssons Bokbinderi
