LETTERS TO A
YOUNG POET
Letters To A Young Poet is a collection of letters by Rainer Maria Rilke about life as a creative. This experimental publication uses color as a metaphor for creativity, gradually increasing the amount of color to symbolize creative ideas revealing themselves and spreading into all parts of life. The publication incorporates hand-made collages of black-and-white photocopied magazine snippets and colorful acrylic paintings.
The raw, meditative quality of the writing inspired me to explore the intersections between design vs. art in an exercise of abstract expressionism. The creative process involved lots of back-and-forth between collaging physically, composing the collages into digital layouts, returning to collage techniques, scanning the new collages, and so on as the form and design system evolved. I found this process to be incredibly exciting.
