Designing Communications for Interactions

May 8th, 2017

The day to end it all.

Finally, the last day of official interaction with my class and professors. Today was our final show, and Faith and I have spent countless hours screen-printing and planning to come to this point. Here are our final posters:

April 3rd, 2017

Research and Implementation.

March 30th, 2017

Creating a Direction.

So Faith and I are trying to find a direction for our system. What about screen-printing is so attractive? Why do people screenprint? How will we get them to screenprint?

March 28th, 2017

Where do we start?

Faith and I started this project by identifying our target audience and asking ourselves why people don’t screen-print.

Initially, we wanted to target both fine art students as well as designers, but decided to stick…

March 23rd, 2017

Small Changes and Designing Systems.

Coming back from the class prior, I made changes to the print piece, taking letters and turning them into shapes, and incorporating these shapes throughout the spreads.

March 21st, 2017

Final.

Today was the day final prints were due. I didn’t really change my piece that much prior.

March 9th, 2017

POSTERS

Today, the class went to the Rare Book Room to look at collections of posters that had strong, graphic and visual elements.

March 7th, 2017

Getting closer.

Some things I’ve been thinking about is the addition of a “cover” spread. Because my piece is going to be a part of a book, I figured that it’d be helpful to create a page or spread that informs the reader that he/she is on an entirely new…

March 2nd, 2017

Exploration and Progress.

I’ve now begun to explore how I could incorporate many of Hiromu’s style elements into my own spreads. In many of his pieces, he uses blocks of color as well as the use of letter forms as shapes.