Week 4 (second half)

At this point, We had a peer to peer critique and we still in early stages of my project. I showed a couple of other designs and had pretty good feed back from my peers. From this critique I started to rethink my project and I had decided to design a book based on stories of everyday people and document the unheard of statistics of suicide around the country and why we are not talking about it.



In this book I also put in quotes I thought may help someone going through depression lift their spirit. 


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