emerge

WoOooAah.

When I was a junior at Purdue, I had a project. A project full of unrealized fate at the time.

On day-one of the class, my professor assigned each student two letters at random; mine being the letters S and F.  

This semester-long project revealed the design process of the steps it took to integrate two letterforms into one balanced and complimentary typographic design -- documented and laid out nicely in a sixty paged book. 

That was the semester when all of my work, ideas and even dreams involved the letter S and the letter F. With a few other project guidelines and stipulations that I won't bore you with, it was surprisingly hard to land on a final solution. Countless late nights and unsuccessful designs that lead to a dead ends.

When it came time to title my book, the name "Design Maze" seemed most appropriate. If you squint your eyes and believe, the lines of a maze can even start to look like geometric S's and F's.

Everything about this project felt like a maze. 

chapter 1 -  choosing a path
chapter 2 -  lost in exploration
chapter 3 -  follow my gut
chapter 4 -  the path less traveled
chapter 5 -  there's no easy way out
chapter 6 -  emerge

3 years later and here I am writing this as I live in San Francisco, California. 

S.F.

!!!!!

It's much much more than the irony of these initials, though. It's the parallel thoughts I have today as a 23 year old finding her way in a new city.

2017 was a year in the maze and I feel like I'm just emerging. I felt lost at times but followed my gut and took a chance on a new job, a new city, and new people. A job that teaches me new things. A city that is dreamy and bursting with adventure. New people who I now can't imagine life without. It hasn't been easy being far from home and I had to ask for help a lot but I'm so thankful for the guidance from my family, too.

I'm not really sure what level of difficulty the maze will be in 2018 but amidst all of life's unknown, I need to remind myself to keep the faith.

You will always find the way.