We are creating an information booklet with information about the World Heritage program and specific information about our site for my design synthesis class this semester. All told, the text is about 3000 words long, and includes bulleted lists, a timeline, multiple levels of headlines, and photos with captions. I wanted the booklet for my…
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DesignSynthesis: New Yorker Ads
While my design synthesis class was working on finalizing the letterhead design, we also started working on a series of New Yorker ads for an art exhibit featuring photos and artifacts from our site. I was still trying to decide between a few competing logotypes, so I started out making a few sketches that used…
DesignSynthesis: Letterhead
Once we had chosen a site and created a draft mark/logotype, my design synthesis class began working on designing the documents that would make up the rest of the site identity. We started with the letterhead, trying out various sketches to see how the different marks worked. These were my top 3 picks. Sorry for…
ThesisSite: Integrating land use data
Re-incorporating the land use data from my original poster is the last major component of the thesis site that needs to be roughed out. I had started working in this direction at the beginning of my Studio3 class last fall, and even developed a quick-and-dirty dashboard to visualize the data completeness, but it became clear pretty…
Thesis: Going Public
I’ve been thinking about different ways to engage people in my thesis exhibition, now that I’ve removed the idea of a microscope from the exhibit. My favorite part of the microscope idea was that it would allow people to directly observe soil microorganisms in a way that they might not otherwise be able to do. Substituting…
Thesis: Exhibition planning
I wrote about some initial exhibition setup about a month ago, when we first started thinking about the thesis exhibition design. Since then, we’ve been developing these ideas a bit further, and testing out different approaches that we could take with the space. The biggest challenge for my project is finding ways to make it extend…
ThesisSite: Modular narratives
In addition to working on simplifying the visualizations that I already have and building the navigation interface for the thesis site, I’ve also been working on filling in some of the holes in the narrative that links the data visualizations together. Most of these narrative pieces don’t really have data that needs to be visualized, but…
ThesisSite: Designing the interface
Before I could really start unifying the design of the thesis site, I needed to get all of my different code experiments in one place so that I could actually see them. That started as a bunch of screen shots in a powerpoint file, but I’ve also been coding a front page design to support…
ThesisSite: Simplifying narratives
Last semester, I spent most of my time on the thesis project developing new visualizations and expanding my collection of experiments. Since December, I’ve been working on consolidating, integrating, and unifying the structure and design of those many different directions. First, I built a website infrastructure over the break that allows me to pass variables…
ThesisSite: Consolidating Storylines
My thesis project can be divided into roughly three different phases. I began exploring the topic and identifying relevant datasets in my Research Methods class last spring. Last semester, I continued expanding the topic and developed several different experiments for visualizing the data (links in the related posts below), as well as working on the…