process book 2

reflections.
This project has tested my artistic ability, my emotional capacity, and my passion for design. Through this
project, I found the aspects of design that really appeal to me: how design has the ability to compell the
viewer to feel certain ways, the act of taking an image in your mind and creating it physically, and, most
importantly, how it feels to hold your designs that you’ve been starring at through the computer in your
hands and feel your vision come alive.
In the fall 2017 semester, I delved into extreme self reflection about who I am as a designer and what
actually makes me happy. It took three months to come to this project pathway and I couldn’t be more
passionate about it. These pieces and the narrative booklets pushed my ideas of what designs supposed to
be to what I want design to be for me. The typography made me uncomfortable, anxious, and unsure of
it’s success. This period of uncomfort spurred artist revelations, more than I could understand.
I learned what design means to me, I learned about who I want to be as a designer, and I learned what
truly makes me happy and that is creating.
thank you,
Thank you to my professors for bearing with me and my many frazzeled, sweaty
moments running around the art floor when I had the semblence of an idea. Thank you to the other senior
graphic design majors - for listening to my design vomit and constantly supporting and challenging
my wild ideas.
To my family, thank you for supporting me and my creativity even if that means changing my major
junior year.
To my roommates, thank you for dealing with random art supplies through our apartment for the last six
months. For not throwing things out because you “didn’t know if it was art or not” and for letting me use
various pieces of furniture when randomly necessary.
To my friends who have constantly listened to me talk about this project for the last six months. The
biggest of thank yous goes out to you. Thank you for bringing me pencils when I was too busy working
to leave the couch, thank you for all the hugs when my pieces went terribly and the hugs when the pieces
went amazingly. Thank you for letting me use your bodies as canvases and for being as excited about this
project as I am. The constant, unwavering support, love, critique, and empathy have shaped this project
to what it is today, and I couldn’t be happier.
I wouldn’t have been able to do this without any of you.