Lauren Wetmore <████████████████████████████████ >
To: Farah Khan <█████████████████████ >, mark <████████████████████ >, Louis Dollé <█████████████████████ >, Miranda Bambace <███████████████████████ >
Cc: Josh Schwebel <privatejosh@gmail.com>
Dear Farah, Louis, and Miranda,
Thank you so much for our meeting yesterday. We are really pleased with the design concept, and excited by the decisions you have made around images, text, endnotes, and in particular your solution for integrating the contracts into the front and back cover. This all feels very exciting.
After some moments of reflection together, Josh and I both agreed that we have concerns about the use of silver, and would like to ask if there is a way that your art direction can be maintained while removing or changing this aspect?
Our primary concern is that the use of silver would make our publication too similar to the reference publication Broken Relations. This would not be such an issue if both books were not covering very similar topics and even sharing a contributor. Ideally, we are hoping The Employee will reach the Broken Relations readership, and we want to avoid there being too obvious similarities, most explicit in the shared use of silver ink for highlighting and footnotes.
We have huge respect for what you have presented to us, and the hope that it can be preserved with this one alteration in mind.
I've attached some photos of Broken Relations for your reference. Let us know if you would like another meeting, or if there is any further clarity we can bring to this note.
With very best,
Lauren and Josh
