SOPHOMORE SHOWCASE
Project: Collection Catalog & Website
Collections can come in many different varieties, from different subject matter to different sizes, scopes and scale. We are all collectors in different ways, and for this project students were asked to look at what makes a collection; to look at the characteristics of a collection closely from multiple perspectives, and possibly from different contexts. What might the opportunity be to enhance the narrative of the collection whether historical, cultural, or otherwise? Students were tasked with designing an Exhibition Catalogue and companion Exhibition Website. Working predominantly typographically, additional emphasis was also put on giving the collection visual form.
Project: Environmental Infographic
Information Design reveals the hidden, can explain the complex and illuminate the obscure. Constructing visual representations of information is not a mere translation of what can be read to what can be seen. It entails filtering the information, establishing relationships, discerning patterns and representing them in a manner that enables the audience to construct meaningful knowledge. For this assignment, students were tasked with researching a topic of their choosing; breaking down the information to a form that was deliverable, visible, and understandable to an audience; and designing an information graphic to be located somewhere on campus, solved predominantly typographically.
