1945 Rightual is a pseudo-authentic coded name registry of powerful Freemasons living during World War Two (WWII). Following hard evidences which showed that a pivotal factor in the Allies' victory in WWII being the cracking of Germany's military Lorenz Cipher in 'Station X', a conspiracy theory surrounds this project, suggesting that since the Nationalist Socialist Party was ran by dictatorship, they were very organized in contrast to the democratic system of the Allies of WWII, who won the war not due to strategic war plans but thanks to the heavy networking of Freemasons, who also contrived ‘Station X’.
Generating typefaces using only the square and compass - 2 elements of the masonic symbol
Incorporating the Pigpen cipher - secret coded language of the Freemasons fraternity
Design Concept: Codes
Main design:
An alphabetical book in the form of a name registry, with each of the 26 Latin letters representing the names of real-life Freemasons represented in Pigpen ciphers.
Each page represents one alphabet, individually die-cut to form hidden symbols (Jewish 6-sided star; Masonic symbol; 'X')
Supplementary designs:
• A map design folded into a 6-sided star, with fits perfectly into the die-cut of the name registry. On its first unfold, the center spells 'Bletchley Park', the once secret location that held 'Station X'.
• A poster that helps decipher the Pigpen Cipher, with a number cipher which can only be solved upon completely deciphering the name registry; includes several masonic imagery and motifs.
• When overlapping the map with the poster (matching symbol of the sun from poster with the compass of the map), the letter 'X' from the poster falls directly upon the location of Bletchley Park from the map.
