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more PROGRESS

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 More progress to share! Definitely still in the early stages and have to get a move on but here's what I presented to my peers during critique. Got some really great feedback and am excited to continue. I also had a meeting with Klara to go over this process and got some approval and ideas from her!  Final type decision for the exhibition/catalogue branding! The title will be "my life, my practice" in all lowercase in the Gill Sans and the body text will be serif font Perpetua which is from the same designer of Gill Sans so there are some inherent elements that are relative in both type faces that I think allows them to pair well together (also a great suggestion from Franc). Moodboard and color studies- swatched these colors from some of my selects of Klara's work that are my favorite. Assigned each color to a basic human emotion (planning to organize the book by emotions). However thinking of changing these emotions to more specific ones that Klara and I will work ...

some new research/design progress

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 UPDATE! this week I focused on conducting some more last minute research and actually set up a meeting with the artist Klara to get her thoughts about the project and pick her brain a little bit for some initial research to use to start my design process (i intend to conduct more meetings with her to share what I've been working on as well as to gather more information for the content/text of the book- quotes and images etc). Below are my notes from our meeting:  Initial Meeting with Klara Notes Her inspiration- “answering all of life’s questions” She uses art to investigate these questions She is currently working on small studies and paintings regarding her thoughts Inspired by the fact that we think 60-70,000 thoughts a day- how do we as humans filter through these Why do we feel? How do we feel? Approaches starting a new piece with these questions Starts with intense thinking Sometimes her questions turn into a new painting or thoughts lead to others She believes her moti...