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 and art in an exercise of abstract expressionism. The process involved lots of back-and-forth between physical collages and digital layouts as I developed the design system.