Author: gwill

A wonderful opportunity to work on (potentially) a real life Information Design project. In this case, the senior students had to work in teams to create a complete way finding/signage system as part of the library ongoing renovation. Initial research, including walk-throughs and a thorough understanding of the environment and foot traffic was imperative. The deadline presentations were in front of several ‘clients’ and the hopeful outcome will be the development of selected student team concepts through to the final implementation of the system throughout the library.

 

Here is the complete presentation from one of the teams The other two teams were equally wonderful – just not enough room to include all of them!:

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As always, once the students have an understanding and appreciation of working with grids in their editorial design, I introduce another element – paper engineering. Often considered simply ‘pop up, and children’s books, it is in fact a very sophisticated art. The brief was to create a book jacket and three paper engineered spreads for a publication celebrating 400 years of William Shakespeare.

Here are some of the results:

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To create a magazine that is very much about the brand – in this case, Goodwill Industries – but in an interesting, entertaining way. Required defining the audience(s), selecting stories that the audience would engage with/relate to, and then coming up with a title, masthead, cover, and three spreads (opening, image heavy one, plus two further into the story).

 

Here is a small selection:

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So how would an app look, who’s primary purpose is as an interactive wayfinding system to walk around a zoo, but also has enough ‘extra features built into it to develop a brand loyalty and encourage repeat visits?

Here’s how (a few screens from each students project)…..

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Fun poster to work on with a pretty tight deadline. Here is some of the thought process:

Yes, you do need the anaglyph glasses to view this. Better still, a pair of trioscopic glasses. Each poster went out with a cardboard pair of the latter.

Nice introduction assignment into presentation of qualitative and quantitative data in a visual but clear and accurate way, retaining graphic integrity and truthful representation throughout. Each student had to research a personal journey of their choice and collate as much primary and secondary data as possible from that journey. Everything from the number of stop signs, to the breeds of dogs out walking. From the information collected, they then had to create a wallchart presenting it as a visual interpretation.

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