RIP- reading is past
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RIP书签
RIP - Reading Is Past is a bookmark designed for the end of reading, exploring the relationship between completion and disappearance, presence and memory. By adopting the tombstone as a symbolic form, it transforms an abstract “state” into a tangible physical object. Through the ritualized act of closing the book and inserting the bookmark, the reader performs an ending ritual that is already socially familiar.
RIP does not accompany the act of reading; instead, it stands between the pages as a marker of the final chapter—a small monument to completion. Every reading comes to an end, yet through the persistence of thought and memory, reading never truly disappears. The book’s body returns to the shelf, while its exchange and spirit may endure.
Formally and structurally, the bookmark features an independent U-shaped insertion at its base, allowing the tombstone silhouette to stand fully outside the pages once placed. Printed on gray paper, blurred-edge ink text and embossed irregular textures simulate the natural marks left by time and erosion on stone. These formal decisions do not function merely as visual symbols; they originate from long-standing human practices and embodied experiences related to disappearance, time, and preservation. RIP translates such experiences into tactile forms, allowing the ritual of finishing a book to be perceived and reaffirmed through concrete actions and material sensations.
The backing card extends this exploration by externalizing “the end of reading” into space and setting, positioning the bookmark within a scene and incorporating the packaging itself into the ritual. Through form, setting, and text, we aim to communicate the thinking behind the project.
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RIP - Reading is past是一枚为“阅读结束”而设计的书签，探索完成与消逝、存在与记忆的关系。使用墓碑这一象征性符号，将抽象的“状态”转化为可触摸的物理存在——读者仪式性地“合上书页，插入书签”，执行一种社会早已熟悉的结束仪式。
RIP书签并不陪伴阅读，只作为“纪念碑”标记一次“阅读结束”：每一次阅读都有终点，但思想与记忆的延续，使阅读从未真正消逝。书的躯壳归架，其交流与精神可以延存。
在形式与结构上，书签下端设置独立的U型插入结构使其嵌入书页后墓碑轮廓可完整地立起于书页之外；并通过在灰色纸张上以边界模糊的喷墨文字和压印的不规则纹理，模拟石碑经时间侵蚀后形成的自然刻痕。——这些形式并非只作为图像符号而存在，它源自人类对与“消逝”“时间”与“留存”的长期经验实践，RIP书签将这些“经验”转译为可触摸的形式，使得“阅读结束”的仪式能够通过具体的动作与质感被感知和再次确认。
而背后的卡片——延续RIP关于“阅读结束”的讨论，进一步外化为“空间”与“场景”，使之成为仪式的一部分，进而完善该语境。 我们希望透过“形式”“场景”和“文字”帮助传递我们背后的思考。
