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The After Dinner Mint

During my waitressing job, I would clear up the tables. We gave out after dinner mints with the bills and they were wrapped in this gold tinfoil and I started noticing when I was clearing the tables that everyones looked very different. People would roll them up, twist them and  fold them into different shapes. I thought about how my Dad always does this too - trying to make his wrappers into the smallest shapes possible - it was something he, and these customers, don't even think about/ notice they do. I decided to make a flip-book of all of the wrappers that I collected over a week to show this very endearing human behaviour.

The After Dinner Mint Wrapper publication
Photograph of some of the collected after dinner mint wrappers

Some of the collected wrappers

Details:

  • A sleeve with the title and description printed using letterpress to give context to the project.​​

  • The photograph pages bound using thread and then capped off with one of the mint wrappers - this provides extra strength and adds a tactility to the publication.

  • ​Photography only in the publication - the images speak for themselves and are true to size.

The back of the After Dinner Mint Wrapper publication
The front of the After Dinner Mint Wrapper publication
The After Dinner Mint Wrapper publication with sleeve on
The front of the After Dinner Mint Wrapper publication
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