BLUE
Book Design
Use a book to document my personal emotions during my time in Germany while applying to university.
This book illustrates the change in my emotional world after my arrival in Germany. I am alone in a foreign country and often feel lonely and at a loss. In the book I describe my flat-share room and various situations from my life. In my book I use the colour blue to express emotions. The emotions range from melancholy and sadness to drowsiness and laziness to impatience and hesitation and events that influence and change my emotions.
Before I start designing, I choose the format of the book. This book is very close to my heart because I express my feelings and thoughts in it. The book contains both large and small pages. On the large pages, I compare the thoughts of the whole world with my own thoughts on the small pages. I bind the book myself with a thread because I believe that handmade books are beautiful and valuable.
First, I sketch the motifs on carbon This book explores my emotions through various blue textures, photos, handwritten texts, and other elements, such as a poetically free layout style and the visual representation of music. Color contrasts, blurred colors, different materials, and the texture of the pages help readers to empathize with my feelings as they flip through the book.paper and then transfer them onto white paper. Then, I scan the white pages into the computer and edit them afterward using Photoshop.
