Visual elements of chapbook

Hey Sean,

Great to see you on the blog. So, Aiko and I were discussing the chapbook a while back, and we both agreed that the visual aspect was equally as important as the literary component. Hopefully you are still interested in helping us out. If so, there were a couple ideas I was wondering if you could start thinking about/playing around with:

1. The Cover. One of my classmates came up with a great title for the chapbook, "Routes," which plays on the pun of routes/roots: I really like this because it captures two contrapuntal ideas about TheBus:
one, of motion--TheBus as vehicle, as 'root metaphor' for how we come together as a community and move in a common direction in confronting common challenges; and two, roots, TheBus as a symbol of local culture, of one's roots/connection to this place. I would like to express this visually in the cover--of bus routes/roots, of movement/plant-edness. Ideas? I'm thinking of your blurred rainbow pics as a visual way of expressing the idea of movement (and the rainbow as a root metaphor for multicultural Hawaii, both in a good and bad way).

2. Using transfers as a way of linking different sections of the chapbook.

3. Layout of chapbook as a bus map. How cool would it be if we were able to distribute these chapbooks alongside actual bus maps? I think this is a great idea in terms of getting the chapbook into the hands of our target readers--actual bus riders.

There's so many possibilities for this project, I feel like we've just started to scratch the (sur(f)ace). I'm sure you also have tons of ideas, and I'm really excited to hear them. This could be a really amazing project.

Ryan