Preserving Memories: A Digital Collection is an experimental book design and editorial research project that explores how artistic memory and oral histories have been cataloged, preserved, and digitized within archival institutions. The project is inspired by the Dance Oral History Project, part of the Jerome Robbins Dance Division at The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts.

Focusing on the interviewed choreographer Anna Sokolow, the publication investigates how personal narratives and artistic legacies are transformed into structured archival knowledge. Through a research-driven approach, the project translates oral history material into a visual and editorial system that reflects the relationship between memory, documentation, and digital preservation.

The book uses typographic layout, editorial sequencing, and information design to construct a narrative framework that traces the transformation of lived experience into archived data. This conceptual structure is extended through a folded eight-page infographic timeline inserted into the publication, visually mapping key moments from the research conducted at the library.

By combining archival research with experimental book design and information visualization, Preserving Memories: A Digital Collection examines how memory is preserved, interpreted, and recontextualized through institutional and digital systems of knowledge.

Disciplines: Book Design, Editorial Design, Information Design, Infographic Design, Typography, Visual Communication, Research-Based Design.

Software: Adobe InDesign, Adobe Illustrator.