Symposium Ideas Round 2

Following last class, we developed ways to produce the title. I did some tissue paper and charcoal, which I will post soon, hopefully, as well as some digital stuff.

From then, the class decided on 2 paths, exquisite corpse and imagery as background? I went for the corpse idea so I explored that. I did some experimentations:

We did this as a group so we exchanged what we each created and came up with different compositions.

I put one of them into a postcard and a website since that was required.

Now that I look back on it, I'm sort of feeling it but after seeing what people came up with for the imagery/simple type, I feel like that should be the direction we go in. Nothing hurts in exploring though so I'm glad I went through this exercise.

Symposium Ideas

We haven't really been making much for this but we've presented ideas for what the themes of the symposium could be.

Last Monday we went over the symposium titles and description and based on that, we were suppose to bring in ideas for Wednesday. I brought some color choices and ways the title could be formed. I also drew some ideas for how things could be laid out. I wasn't quite sure what was expected, and I felt like everyone else wasn't sure either so we did a round 2.

This was due today and each of us came up with actual concepts this time and mine was more image based. I was going off the idea of uniqueness and "atypical" things.

We also brought some inspirational images. I like the idea of vectors and how they can differ and how we use it. I also like handmade type like the cut paper. There's quite a few ideas up in the air and people brought in similar themes.

Art of the Title

Very cool website just about opening titles. They show the sequence, talk about how it was developed and its concept. Some we talked about in class but there's some more good ones on there.

C/ID Reading

This was a helpful reading in terms of designing an identity. Many, if not all, of the museums we had to read, their identity was very simple and straight forward. Even though there were concepts and ideas behind it, they kept simple type and colors to convey the message. I loved the 20/20 Vision exhibit at the SMCS. Their colors and the way their handled their name was awesome. I also liked MoMAQNS and their concept. I liked that they kept the old Franklin Gothic font but enhanced it to fit the new museum. Overall, it seems like the most memorable ones are the most simple. Identities shouldn't be over thought but it should still be complex in terms of concept. It should also be simple enough to fit every form and be able to be flexible enough to work.

Digital Wireframes Round 1

Scenario 1
Scenario 2
Scenario 3

Site map:

Hopefully it's self explanatory. I feel like I'm missing things but I will ask my fellow classmates for their opinions.