New brief = New problems! So part of the brief is collecting and collections. I don't actually collect anything in particular, I usually just rip things out of magazines that I like, like many people I suppose. I think its very easy to mis understand 'What a book is'. So basically I discovered how a book was in the aesthetic sense for example how they are made. I found this out by going to book binding workshops which were very helpful made me see how much work goes on just to make a simple book. So with the obvious sense of what a book was out the way I moved on to thinking what the context and content and even the use it could have.
Something that came up alot in my research was patterns. I was very interested in patterns and thought it would be quite appropriate for this brief as patterns can sometimes be collections of something and repeated. Much of my research shows the different types of patterns and collections. I bought a book that was very helpful with this which was called 'over and over'. Some of these examples are taken from this book.
