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Contradict—Deviate (Conclusion)
2014After eight months of documented research through Ø and Avoidance, the project reaches its conclusion. Designed to look as unassuming as possible, with no visible title until its unbound edges are bent and fanned out, the final book serves as the author’s reflection on the research odyssey: how she had tried to bend herself to fit an ideal, only to unintentionally discover and understand her own identity as a designer. 

The book(s) functions in two parts. 

The larger book revisits interviews, readings and ideas that the author had once agreed with and that had influenced her practice as a designer but which she had since come to question. Having tried to change herself according to the research—believing that sound and credible findings must mean it is right for her—she instead became restless and unproductive. This led to a final realisation: there is no single correct way to be a designer. Whatever we encounter is ultimately an opinion, and we are entitled to form our own. And for the author, perfectionism is not a fixation to be eliminated; it is also a form of drive.

The smaller book therefore takes a different approach. Filled with quotes from films and everyday words of encouragement, it functions as a pocket-sized cheerleader: something to carry through tough days and turn to when a little buoying up is needed.
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