class: Typography II
brief: For your topic of choice, I want you to investigate: what does your exploration need? More research and inspiration? Higher production values? A shift in materials or context? More time to complete a longer-term experiment in the future? Collaboration with a classmate? Once considered, dive back in to production and fully realizing your projects.
timeline: 3 weeks
Original Project: Typographski
For the first part of this assignment, I wanted to explore communist-era Polish poster design and typography. While personally exciting, the information was disjointed and didn't take advantage of the digital medium. A few months later, we were asked to revisit this project and produce a new deliverable.
Moving Forward
Framing Questions:
How can the different elements feel more cohesive and allow the information to intersect and interact?
An interactive timeline was the most effective solution to this. It presents the information in a single container, that allows the user to expand if they wish. This also allows more negative space, as all the information is not being presented at once.
How can I take advantage of digital space, and encourage engagement?
Make things interesting! In the digital world, visuals are everything. Text and information is important too, but we have been conditioned to take in predominantly visual information with this kind of media (ie. people don’t want to read so much!), so it is important that any type is brief, and the visuals are stimulating and communicative.
Creating spaces → allowing margins and negative space for the information without increasing need for materials is only something you can do with web, so I tried to include as much information as I could.
Final Product
