Instead of focusing on organization through particular subject matters, this book would bring the girls' varying views of the world together through a carefully studied path of shared colors. The idea would be to be able to cycle completely and seamlessly around the color wheel with enough subtlety that you may not immediately notice the pattern, but would still notice the overall visual cohesiveness of colors. Overall design would be extremely minimal, giving highest priorities to the photographs themselves.
Photos would be linked together through color, and would fade from one dominating color to the next. (These are not indicative of layouts, they are meant merely to show how photos will be grouped)
For the most part, would be laid out as one image per spread, with lots of room for negative space:
Exceptions would be when the two photos rely on each other to tell a story:
Full page bleeds of splashes of supplementary colors would exist when color shifts:
Intermittently, newspaper scans of significant cultural events from these girls' generation to add "color" through context:
2. PIXELS
The book would use distortions such as pixelation to tell a story of a generation of girls that have been raised in an era of new mass medias with entirely new modes of communication that they have to worry about. It is a story about the blurred consciousnesses of this generation. While the voices of these girls are being heard louder than ever, they are now fighting for individuality among the millions of other girls connected through mass media.
I started by looking at placing photographs onto patterns, and mixing patterns in general:
Photos for The Girl Project would be placed on top of pixelated versions of themselves to create a similar effect:
Selected text from the questionaires would be blown up over distorted/pixilated imagery:
Some images would be blown up become grainy and almost abstracted:
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