Figuring it out

What is design? Why does it matter? How does one make meaningful work?  How do *I* learn to make meaningful work?

This 60 page, unbound book is a snapshot of a small notebook that I carried around everywhere I went from December 2016 to March 2016. It is a book of questions and lists and lists of questions. Of quotes from books and professors and speakers and movies.  Research of my own and other artists and scientists and writers.  Maps and drawings and flow charts. 

 

This book is part of an ongoing project to discover why design matters and my role in the world as a graphic designer. So far, I have learned that sometimes the best thing to say, "I don’t  know. I don’t know what it is or why is matters. Yet."

Play By Eye – Photography

“I play by eye in the same way that musicians play by ear”

 

Musicians listen to notes and create compositions, following an code, unknowable for

the rest of the world. Music evokes feelings and emotions that are beyond words. The

rhythm and pattern of the each instrument playing together to create an symphony that

when other hear, creates inexpressible feelings. It is a language entirely beyond words.

 

“I play by eye in the same way that musicians play by ear”

 

Color is the language that I most naturally think and feel in. Rather than gravitating to

words or music to express my thoughts, I find that complex color combinations most

clearly display what I am feeling. This book highlights the complex relationships built

within colors and the hues that create the colors. This book is not created by using a pattern or a linear structure. It is built by intuitively placing images and colors,highlighting the true color of our world.

Does It Matter?

The 5 inch by 5 inch book is created by printing concentric circles on transparencies. The CMYK values of each color is separated on to different pages of transparencies, so that when the viewer turns the pages, they are able to essentially deconstruct the color. This color manual brings questions of value and importance to the surface, but instead of presenting the viewer with answers or opinions, the body of the book is entirely void of text, creating a situation for the viewer to think about the questions independently. There are 20 sets of concentric circles within the book.

 

60 acetate pages, 20 card stock pages. Inkjet printing.