Day Bi Day: A Research Guided by the Practice of Graphic Design and Poetic Writing

Day Bi Day is an artistic research project that questions how graphic design and poetic writing can create research spaces that take inspiration from aspects of humanising the bisexual label. This article presents the conception and development of a publication that represents a bisexual poetic experience accompanied by illustrative prints. The project is inspired by an approach of ergodic literature for writing, as well as exploring forms of text and texture to enhance the experience of reading. It seeks to establish a connection with the reader through participation that encourages physicality. This connection and entry into the narrative ideally relates the viewer to the portrayed experience, providing an empathetic understanding of a bisexual experience, as well as a more humanised view of the people that identify themselves under the label. The significance of the project depends on the use of the practice to ask questions that are specific and autoethnographic, being both the motor and the result of the research process.

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