A 500-page speculative design book was conceived, written, and produced to explore a dystopian future defined by pervasive data surveillance. Drawing on themes from blackout and redaction poetry, as well as the authoritarian undertones of 1984, the project imagines a world where handwritten communication is outlawed for its resistance to government tracking. The narrative unfolds through illegal love letters exchanged between two characters, later confiscated and archived as evidence. Their messages are encoded through physical interventions such as page folding, hole cutouts, transparent overlays, and layered compositions. These letters interspersed with governmental documents provide context on the violated statutes and the methods used to decipher each communication. The resulting “artifact” displays narrative world-building with physical experimentation, creating an immersive and unsettling vision of a future where privacy itself becomes contraband.