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PRINT DESIGN | LAYOUT DESIGN | COPY WRITING
A personal publication for anxious thoughts.
Client: Personal, School
Time: 2 months
The idea of having butterflies in your stomach is a positive way to look at nervous energy.
I’ve always felt a nervous energy and anxiety in my stomach. I thought it could be interesting to dive into that aspect of fear and anxiety and personify it as creatures that live in your stomach.
I began with some exercises to see what are some things my community is thinking about.
I put up some posters for people to write down their anxieties. I ended up not using these in my final book, but it was an interesting exercise.
I experimented with size, feel, and paper interactions that could enhance the narrative.
A bigger size seemed appropriate to match the “legal” feel, something which resembled a file or official documents. I additionslly looked at ways of embedding subtext and multiple voices, but in the end decided to lean towards simplicity.
Took a trip to the Carnegie Natural History Museum for visual inspiration.
I iterated on cover designs to begin the design process.
A bigger size seemed appropriate to match the “legal” feel, something which resembled a file or official documents. I additionslly looked at ways of embedding subtext and multiple voices, but in the end decided to lean towards simplicity.
Pittsburgh Creative Reuse was my next stop for discovering interesting materials and paper
A bigger size seemed appropriate to match the “legal” feel, something which resembled a file or official documents. I additionslly looked at ways of embedding subtext and multiple voices, but in the end decided to lean towards simplicity.
After some print tests, I settled on some paper
A bigger size seemed appropriate to match the “legal” feel, something which resembled a file or official documents. I additionslly looked at ways of embedding subtext and multiple voices, but in the end decided to lean towards simplicity.
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