Last semester at the Graphic Design History class we were assign to do a Graphic Design on a Book Cover. The last my favorite book was “The life changing Magic of tidying up” The Japanese art of decluttering and organizing by Marie Kondo. After reading this book all my girlfriends were crazy about cleaning their wardrobe, kitchen, miscellaneous things. and so did I. So my choice were redesigning the cover of this book.
my first approach was to do something like clean interior image with Japanese touch of style, but then when i was doing research on Art Deco style furniture, I saw one blue wardrobe with the beautiful golden stripes crossing each other and was inspired to inplement those lines in my design. my struggle was to come up with the concept of my design and I just started doing intuitive work by playing with the shapes like a music, organizing shapes on the canvas.
As well having in memory of my experience of decluttering my own space, and a heart breaking experience of saying goodbye to the things I kept, just to have them, and never use or wear them, made me create of certain goal we all have to see. The goal is a sense of light, start fresh, peace in a clean place. So I created a red circle in my design as a goal we always have to have. Also a red circle is a sign of Sun in Japanese culture. I really loved that. My design gives you the idea of putting shapes together, organizing them. My classmates really like that design so I felt happy about it.
I loved the colors I chose for this design as well, purple gives you a sense of calmness and meditation. I believe that organizing is meditation. Decluttering is cleaning your mind and energy.
Thank you:)