OBJECTIVE
Create a booklet depicting a non-literal interpretation of a chosen haiku. Each of the three haiku lines must be shown on three spreads, using a design system to connect each spread smoothly. The front cover needed to reference the similarities in the whole booklet and the back needed to show the haiku, author, and creator credentials.
SKETCHES
Haiku by Steven Sanfield:
"The earth shakes
just enough
to remind us."
This poem could be interpreted as a feeling of anxiety or stress. How "the earth shakes" can refer to how everything can feel like it's collapsing or messy when one is stressed, but eventually, one may realize that things will be okay and get calmer. The other lines of the haiku reflect that, saying that the quaking is just enough to be a reminder or something that settles down.
With this interpretation, a sequence of chaos gradually calming down or going back between chaos and order became the main concept, using imagery of the earth and underground.
COLOR ITERATIONS
Throughout iterations, the color palette needed an increase in contrast, leaning into the idea of chaos vs. order. Other angles of the rectangular format and different type settings with size, weight, orientation, and tracking were experimented with.
FINAL BOOKLET
