Design by Erica Morse

Carleton Confidential

©2008 Erica A. MorseAll rights reserved. This material may be distributed only sub ject to the terms and condi- tions set forth in the Open Publication License v1.0 or later (the latest version is presently available at http://www.opencontent.org/openpub/). Distribution of substantively modi- fied versions of this document is prohibited without the explicit permission of the copyright holder. Distribution of the work or derivative of the work in any standard (paper) book form is prohibited unless prior permission is obtained from the copyright holder.

This book is printed as a final project for Graphic Design: Type + Image + Message, a course offered at Carleton College. It was produced in fall term 2008.

First edition: November 2008

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Carleton ConfidentialEdited and Designed by Erica Morse

MorseMatters Press2008

Introduction

Carleton Confidentail was compiled for a Cinema and Media Studies class at Carleton College, Graphic Design: Type + Image + Message. This project was largely inspired by postsecret.com, a community art project that encourages people to mail their secrets anonymously on one side of a postcard. I remember when I first came across Post Secret a few years ago. I couldn’t tear myself away from the site. I sat there for hours reading secret after secret, each more heart wrenching than the last. I felt intimately connected to all of those people despite the fact that the secrets were anonymous. I wanted to do something like Post Secret for my final project, except specifically for Carleton. I put up posters around campus and created a facebook group and the response I got was overwhelming. The secrets range from humorous to melancholic, but more than anything else they are all honest.

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Carleton Confidential is a project for a Cinema and Media Studies Class, Graphic Design: Type + Image + Mes-sage, at Carleton College. Students were asked to anonymously submit their secrets to mailbox #673. The re-sults are contained in this book. The secrets range from humorous to melancholic but all of the secrets have one thing in common: they offer the reader a window into the secret life of a Carleton student.