Camouflaged Books, since 2014
After getting censored for publishing off-limits gore content, visual strategies were developed to make incriminated content available again. The camouflaged version of the publication was republished successfully, without being detected by automatic checks and censorship mechanisms on the Print-on-demand platform Lulu.
A guide on how to camouflage books can be found here. The project was further developed in 2016 in a publication, which focused on camouflaging typography.
It is also part of the Library of Artistic Print-On-Demand, a research-project initiated by Annette Gilbert & Andreas Bühlhoff.

subversive publishing, research
3 publications, 96 pages / 364 pages
148 × 210 mm, print-on-demand

“Jasper Eisenecker’s project also represents an attempt to expand the medium of the book by strategically exploiting the fundamentally hybrid nature of POD publications, where the printed book is always based on a digital master. His Camouflaged Books are intentionally configured as a double pack, comprising both a digital file and a printed copy. They make use of special visual camouflage strategies designed to distort the content of each publication in such a way that the PDF file would outwit the POD platform’s automated checking and control mechanisms, while ensuring the printed books would remain legible and present no difficulties for human readers.
The printed book is not conceived here as a countermodel to the digital, but as a complementary addition. In other words, the two publication formats are not to be understood as an “either–or,” where the reader can choose the preferred format. Instead, these works are conceptualized as a “both-this-and-that.”” Annette Gilbert, Affordances and Limitations of POD Platform Publishing: Findings from the Library of Artistic Print on Demand

More about the project at the Library of Artistic Print On Demand, a research initiative by Annette Gilbert and Andreas Bülhoff.

“Jasper Eisenecker’s project also represents an attempt to expand the medium of the book by strategically exploiting the fundamentally hybrid nature of POD publications, where the printed book is always based on a digital master. His Camouflaged Books are intentionally configured as a double pack, comprising both a digital file and a printed copy. They make use of special visual camouflage strategies designed to distort the content of each publication in such a way that the PDF file would outwit the POD platform’s automated checking and control mechanisms, while ensuring the printed books would remain legible and present no difficulties for human readers.
The printed book is not conceived here as a countermodel to the digital, but as a complementary addition. In other words, the two publication formats are not to be understood as an “either–or,” where the reader can choose the preferred format. Instead, these works are conceptualized as a “both-this-and-that.”” Annette Gilbert, Affordances and Limitations of POD Platform Publishing: Findings from the Library of Artistic Print on Demand

More about the project at the Library of Artistic Print On Demand, a research initiative by Annette Gilbert and Andreas Bülhoff.