Our assignment for this project was to create a set of 1-inch buttons and a poster of a certain era in graphic design and showcase it as if it were to be used at the Blanton Museum for an exhibit. I decided to choose one of my favorite eras in design which is Swiss design aka International Style. After that, I had to figure out a system of how many buttons to create. I decided to create 18 buttons which includes 3 buttons for each day the museum is open. The guest would either receive an informative button, a button of the artis for that day, or a button of the artist's most famous work. The designs of the poster and buttons work well together because I made them reminiscent of the International Style of design.
The Kitchen of Meaning project is one where we needed to define a word by using illustrations and other elements of design. My assigned word was "zeitgeist". As a part of the project, we needed to provide a design synopsis and it is as follows: "For a word that is defined as “the spirit of the
times”, I went for a different approach from the American Flag idea to define
zeitgeist. Since zeitgeist is based off of a certain time period, I decided to
base my design on a time period that has much history behind it, the 1960’s.
The 1960’s is represented on my poster by the color scheme, the typefaces I
chose, and the different symbols that define the sprit of that time period. I
decided to make a symbol for every person in the class and placed their names
under them to show that the 1960’s was a time period that the people played a
big part of, not just events or ideas."
Our goal of this project was to design a set of instructions for a certain goal that is easy to follow. My topic was "How to Mail a Package". My intentions were to create these instructions as if they were a link on the USPS website. These instructions were designed in Flash so that you can click through each step of the instructions with ease.
