Contacting Designers, Little Message Contact Books Part 1

This year is an important year for contacting people. I wanted to be able to contact people in a way which will stand out and resemble me a a person. My idea is inspired by Michael Lester's Worlds Smallest Portfolio. It was his portfolio made into a tiny book with small images and one sentence for each and it was hugely success because it was so different.

I want to represent my love of publications by sending a letter in a small books, but not the worlds smallest book! This will catch the attention of designers and be something they can keep on their desk to keep me in their mind.

My first go at creating a small message was for Alecs task which gave us a week to contact someone. I wanted to contact Australian book cover designer Allison Colpoys asking if she could give me to feedback on some of my cover designs. I could not find her address so send it to the Jacky Winter Group who represent her as they are also based in Melbourne were she is from.

I felt it was a good and interesting way to share a message but felt it lacked look wise therefore for the next book I changed the size up slightly and used the same stamps I used for self branding inside.

The second book I created was for designer at 72&Sunny Wendy Depart. She is based in Amsterdam and I asked her if me and the PUB collective could come and interview her for our first issue of our zine in February. She said that would be okay so I wanted to send her a little message in a book to say thank you. I felt the style of the stamps made the book feel more personal as it relates to my branding. I like to start my books by Saying hello and including a picture of the designer and myself as this makes the book noticeably more personal this is something I want to continue. I also created a Belly band to hold the book together which is decorated with my fingerprints which also links to myself, I want to continue this so the contact books look more like a collection.