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Research!
Our workshop’s first book is a fairy tale called The Waking Prince. I am excited to be working on this story!
The very first step I take as a designer is to do research! I look for other books that I like. I look at all of their details.
In design, you often borrow ideas that someone else has had and then find ways to make them new and your own.
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