class 2, sep. 14 📦
agenda 📜
- 1🏷️ annotate, arrange, document
- 2✂️ poster kick-off
- 3✍️ due next class
annotate, arrange, document 🏷️
we’re going to do a few quick rounds of exercises to get us thinking.
pin and chat 📌
everyone pin everything to the walls: your 50+ items/images.
we’ll do a quick share:
- 1what did you write about your collection?
- 2what are your keywords?
make a mess 🔄
- 1split into groups of in groups of 3 or 4.
- 2swap collections with another person in your group.
- 3think about the way this collection was originally organized.
- 4now rearrange that collection.
- →in one or more spectrums?
- →in one or more groups?
- →what can be removed?
- →
embodying the role of curator, you should now begin to shape your collection. choose, select, filter. organize your collection in different ways. find the meaning. what are the different stories you can tell with this collection? begin to finalize your collection; are there items that should be eliminated? others that you need to bring in? consider keeping track of what you keep and what you reject. how can two groupings begin to tell different or interesting stories?
make it make sense 💡
- 1swap collections with another person in your group, someone different this time.
- 2add at least 1 annotation to every item in the collection.
- →add post-its with notes.
- →pin tracing paper and draw on top of the items.
- →cut and tape index cards to cover up parts of items.
- →or do anything else you can think of.
- →
on the walls and tables in class, begin testing and exploring ways to organize and make different narratives from your collections. consider rearranging, creating new groupings, grids, arrows, captions, etc. explore different options for annotating your collection to address different types of audiences.
talk through your process 💬
- 1join back together as a group.
- 2talk through each person’s collections and the ways you reinterpreted it.
- 3take photos of the modified collections.
poster kick-off ✂️
return to your collection. for the rest of class, you’ll have time to start putting first drafts of your posters together.
this will be an entirely analog process. before we go digital, we’re going to create our posters entirely by hand.
cut up and reassemble your collection to give it meaning!
who is this collection for? be specific! 😳
how can you help them understand the collection? different audiences may require different kinds of annotations to help guide them through. more specific is better: “other designers” will help you less than “providence-based design students interested in local history,” or “designers born in the 2000s who were in high school during covid.”
- →use your phone/camera to document at least three different approaches to your process.
- →add these to the figjam by the end of the day.
due next class ✍️
- 1present two draft posters ~ analog only, black-and-white, 24 x 36". tiled is ok.
- →these should be very rough: use physical collages, tape, craft paper, etc. you will continue to work on the posters by hand in class. do not transfer to digital just yet. don’t be precious!
- →each poster should express a different story or point-of-view. the collections might be the same on both posters, but the design should work to tell different stories, perhaps for two distinct audiences. or perhaps you’ll need to vary the collections shown on each poster, to express different narratives.
- →each of the two posters should begin to express your curatorial logic. show the relationships among, and between, the items, and pay attention to how your narrative changes from one poster to the other—how might the two posters relate?
- →
- 2bring in push pins, masking tape (thick and thin), x-acto knives, cutting mats, tracing paper, colored pens or pencils, post-it notes, stickers, crayons, markers, or any other tools that you wish to continue working and building the posters in class. be ready to add layers, commentary, texts, lines, arrows, etc, at first by hand (written) and eventually typeset (digitally).