This project allowed me to combine my writing and design skills to create a book that offers a unique experience in the East Cesar Chavez neighborhood. The content of my book focuses on five non-profits in the neighborhood. I interviewed someone from each organizations and wrote a short profile about the organization and its role in the community. My design uses bright colors  and photographs that characterize the non-profits and the neighborhood. Throughout the book, when a new organization is introduced, I designed pockets that hold a small slip of paper. Each slip of paper has part of a quote from Cesar Chavez and a piece of a mural located in the neighborhood. When all the slips of paper are organized together, the full picture and quote is realized and represents the history of minority groups in that area of Austin.

I think this project shows how I have grown as a designer and learned to use design as a way to create an experience. I enjoyed learning the process involved in bookbinding and practicing those skills. One aspect of this project that was challenging was choosing paper and printing. The texture of paper I chose to buy didn’t work the best with my printing method.