Going into the brief I knew that there would be a few issues regarding the natural development process I would normally take as a designer. The brief is basically created by Hannah who also controls the main content and therefore she is in control of what happened and decides whether something is good or bad and if we move forward or three steps back. From observing what I've already done and the feedback I've been given I've come to the conclusion that I don't have the creative freedom I wish for.
Normally the development process would start with few general layout ideas based on the name of the book. The name of the book, to begin with, was 'Occupy' naturally I research the name and what the name represented. To translate the word 'Occupy' within the layout of the book, my idea was around building up the growth. Essentially the images would start off small and gradually grow to eventually occupy the spread of the book. With this in mind I took it back to Hannah she wasn't a fan of. Shortly after Hannah decided on a name changed, changing the name of the book to 'Reside'. It's not good practice to change the brief half way through.
Hannah was in control and she could decide what she liked and didn't like, not based on reasoning but based on personal taste. After a way, I decided to not attach myself to the brief and not take any feedback personally. Another issue I faces was Hannah also taking on design role from time to time. This is totally fine but she did so without any design reasoning. This included telling me what fonts and positioning she preferred to use without any reason attached to these spontaneous decisions. At the end of the day, she owns photos and without the photos there wouldn't be no collaboration and if she doesn't like what's produced she won't send it to the printers and my job as a designer whether I like it or not is to see the completion of the brief. If you digest all the issues above you come to a clear understanding that there wasn't no reason for me to come on board with the collaboration as it was evident from the feedback that Hannah already had an idea what the book would look like in the end and no matter what I put forth her vision wouldn't change.
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