Start of 2025, it’s the new year !!!

Starting off the year with a roller coaster of emotions really took over me and my creative productivity. I completely lacked motivation to get my university work done and felt extremely on edge. This also led me to be unhappy with my concept and the quality of work I was producing. Upon reflection and consideration of my previous work, I decided to change my concept and start fresh after the December break. I started of by making a mind map of all my hobbies and hat I truly enjoy doing in the day to day life. Doing this was extremely helpful as I had the A-HAA moment and made me realise the importance of making my final major project personal to me and my experiences. Staying with the theme of connection and culture, I decided to go down a different root and explore a hobby I have always enjoyed and experimented with it.

Took a visit to Waterstones to explore my ideas for the new concept, hoping this would help me solidify my new idea and come up with strong points of research. I considered several different recipe books and took inspiration from them all  for their use of colour, font, illustration, page layout and visual photography. Doing this was helpful as it allowed me to see the gap in the market for Indian skincare and specifically organic homemade skincare. Therefore, I used this as my starting point and began doing research in factors such as Indian History of skincare and Ayurveda.