Workshop ideas for University of Utah Visit Ideas
- I am combining three important things in this workshop:
- This workshop needs a name.
- Workshop
- Free Culture > In The Beginning Culture was Free!
- Design Tools/elements
- Flickr Commons
- Typography and Open Source
- Vernacular
- Stewart Brand and How Buildings Learn
- Climate Designer
- Project Drawdown
- UN Sustainable Development Goals
- Clear, Easily Iterative Deliverables
- Posters
- Some sort of series?
- why posters?
- can "posters" be interpreted in some way?
- 2 posters – the posters are in communication with one another?
- Reuse my poster project prompt from AD1 w/ sandie and isaac?
- 3 posters – they are iterative? they build on one another?
- Readings
- Refernce the AD1 Invisible Cities readings?
- AD1 Grating exercises readings?
- The Ecstasy of Influence, Jonathan Lethem / http://fromkeetra.com/Downloads/TheEcstacyOfInfluence_JonathanLethem.pdf / https://harpers.org/archive/2007/02/the-ecstasy-of-influence/?single=1
- Writing Bodies, Litia Perta
- Questions
- What is it?
- When is this from?
- Where is this from?
- Who made this?
- What made this?
- What is so great about this?
- What drew you to this?
- Why does this exist?
- How do we create meaning?
- How do we decide what is "good enough" to give to another person? and does that matter?
- How do you reinvent the visual presentation of a familiar product?
- How do we discover new ways to reimagine and promote common forms?
- Manifesto?
- Speculative Design
- There is no wrong way to translate your favorite inspiration into a kit or tool. Make wildly poetic leaps or stay near the source. If you create a work that acts as a tried and true homage with clear reference to it’s origin, consider crediting that origin in a notable way. For further thoughts on influence, appropriation, and the like, check out The Ecstasy of Influence, Jonathan Lethem.
The Actual Prompt?
Clearly articulate due dates and expecations.
PART 1
An experimental, expressive graphic exploration that
responds to the source material (Drawdown or UN Goals!?)
- Slideshow with bibliography
- 12 experimental compositions, explore type only, image only and type and image combined
PART 2
Two posters that create a dialogue about your topic and that challenge your audience to think critically.
- 2 printed or animated posters, sized to your discretion. Each poster must use a grid, have 3 levels of hierarchy including a heading, 200 words of text and at least one image.
- what all of this means of course is up to you: the size, grid, etc. should all make sense based on your approach... how can you "make meaning" through selecting these design elements – not just through your text/image choices?
Wk1
Create a typology study:
- Make a list of 10 words that describe your topic.
- Find 3 aphorisms or quotes that describe the topic.
- Look at digital and analog resources and collect images, illustrations, diagrams,
patterns, etc that illustrate the topic.
** What literal objects represent your topic?
** What metaphors apply to your topic?
** What possible allusions can you make in design, art, architecture, literature, history,
etc, to your topic?
** What personal influences and interests would you like to combine with your topic?
* Present as a PDF slide show with your words, aphorisms or quotes and image
research. The last page should be a bibliography of your sources.
Wk2
Create 12 experimental compositions
- Make twelve 8x8 inch collages.
- Explore the form-making potential of the words and images you have gathered by manipulating both type and image.
- Consider both analog and digital manipulation of letterforms and images.
- How does the meaning of words change if you use a different typeface?
- How do the compositions communicate your specific interpretation of the topic?
- How can you use type and image to communicate spatial relationships and environments? Consider shadow, plane, perspective, overlay and depth.
- Go wild with experimentation! What you can do to alter an image or typeface?
- Abstract, make it modular, texturize, pattern, cut, tear, float, fold, frame, mask, project, adorn, alter...
- Present compositions
Wk3
Create a poster series
- Make 2 posters that express different aspects of your topic. The points of view can be complementary or contrasting.
- Build on your experimental compositions. Discover coincidences — both visual and language-based.
- Is there a composition that could be used as a grid for one or more of the posters?
- Could you combine two or more of the compositions?
- Have you discovered a certain technique that you want to replicate in the posters?
- Use a grid!
- Poster must have 3 levels of hierarchy and include a heading
- use at least 200 words of text and at least one image
- The definition for what a "poster" is can be variable: traditioanl poster? small?giant? billboard? building? website? animation? video? app? what is a poster for and how does a different medium or framework still do that?
Wk4
Critique: Posters due
– Present however necessary for your poster concepts.