Fall 2022 — Team 5 w/ Caitlyn Baensch, Elysha Tsai, Stefanie Suk

Project Overview

<aside> 👉 Create a typographic system to publish this text which can work from paper to pixels. This system will be used to design a readable, engaging, navigable typographic experience of this interview across three surfaces; mobile, newsprint, and desktop.

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• Table of Contents

→ 10.24 Groundwork

• Milestone 1:

As we kicked off our second project, my group came together to brainstorm and to scope out similar interests that may determine the thematic concept of our project. In addition to that, we also looked at a variety of printed examples that Kelsey brought in!

Towards the end of class, when then individually brainstormed any people, themes, ideas we were interested in.

Before we met up on Tuesday, we continued to brainstorm in our own time. However, even though we had set out to list more people that we were interested in interviewing, I found that thinking about broader themes helped narrow down potential interviewees.

→ close up of some themes I thought of (some of my other comments I directly added to another frame so that it wouldn’t be redundant here) → first two columns are from in class, right most column was individual brainstorming

Then as we reviewed, discussed and marked down the ideas that stood out to us, we were able to then narrow it down to two main ideas:

1. “A Collectors Book”
   1. inspired by Caitlyn’s grandparents’ salt and pepper collection (a neat fact that she mentioned start of class)
   2. reminded me of a high school friend who collected ~30 countries worth of coins
   3. Stefanie also mentioned that her grandfather has collected mini alcohol samplers
   4. description: People collect things all the time. While some collections are shortlived, some grow to become a massive assortment of unique variants of perhaps the same artifact. By listening to the stories behind a remarkable collection, we can then discover the personal memories and meanings formed behind these objects.

1. “What is good work?”
   1. interviewing prolific creatives
   2. each issue as an interview with a prolific creative that answers our core question
   3. balancing creativity, intuition, analytical aspects
   4. description: “What is good design?” Every prolific designer has a different backstory, each a different journey that has cultivated their current design practice and work. By learning about these designers, we can understand the various perspectives and opinions that answer the question “what is good work?”
      • disclaimer: main theme would be “what is good work?” but we would focus on a ‘volume’ related to designers -> “what is good design?”

In class, we presented these two ideas and got some good feedback! (as listed below).