Entombed within this codex are cross-sectional slices of open-source 3D models of trees, dispossessed of its volume in another dimension (3D), and presented as flat (2D) bodies. The 3D printer’s capability to print in the z-axis is extended to its ability to print both the canvas and content simultaneously. Contrary to traditional paper-printing processes that requires a pulp canvas and ink to print, the 3D printer sees no distinction between the canvas and the print — they are printed as one. On its spine an epitaph reads: “How do you kill what does not (need) bleed?” — a reference to the “bleed” process during traditional paper-printing production that is eliminated with 3D-printing. Filled with lore and writings within about how 3D printing reconciles with the “death of print”, CORPUS explores the 3D printed book as the afterlife of the book; a codex of another dimension.

The identity of ToNewEntities (TNE) is inspired by creation myths, the logotype is envisioned as an object-in-motion, churning and forming something new, otherworldly. The type renders itself typographically inside its letters’ counter-spaces and apertures, lines set within text leading — reflecting the studio’s operational interests in the latent spaces/gaps, blank states, unexplored potentialities.