more PROGRESS

 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 on coming up with together. Since these colors are very specific hues of basic colors they deserve very specific emotions attached to them that come from Klara directly (great point from critique).



This is how I want to organize the book. When you flip through it these will be the navigational mechanisms to find your place. Color coded on the left edge with the folio along the right edge. This was approved by Klara and I would love to continue with this. Thinking of how to make it work with an accordion fold.

Next week plans- build a dummy prototype and start laying out the book! 




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