A range of initial content ideas
Inspired by my research I pursued the sampling idea further, looking at how I could use the circle motif as a way of documenting colours that were important to me. The below sketches show tentative ideas of how these might appear as book pages, and also which colours and associations I might begin to use:
Sample sketches
From these I continued to create sketches based around circles, but instead moving on to examine how I might use the parameters of a circle to define different shapes for different associations:
An extension of the circle motif
Using the tracing paper element discovered in my research into publication production I tried overlaying circles of colour on independent layers of tracing paper to create new colours, and also to try to emulate the merging and overlapping of memories and associations. However this method proved to be ineffective as only primary colours could be effectively overlayed to produce secondary colours, and this drastically limited my options as to which colours I could represent through the publication.
After this initial experimentation I look further into how sample colours were displayed in other situations, for example when colours are presented in a catalogue or chart for painting and decorating companies. This led to a change in the composition of the pages, with the circle sample idea evolving into more solid and angular blocks of colour. From here I became interested in producing my own chart or sample book that could act almost as a guide to my own personal colour associations (below).
The new page design with rectangular blocks of colour