Design school assignment
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- misterhow
Do you have a favorite assignment from design school? What and why?
- misterhow0
I should have reconsidered the title.
- Peter0
Nah, I like it, it's very well rounded.
- Witt0
so, what have you learned in school?
- OSFA0
*checks title
oh... nevermind.....
- mg330
Hmmm, it was actually Advertising school, but we had to do this whole campaign for Arm & Hammer baking soda marketed to hunters because it would get the human scent out of clothes.
Anyhow, I had picked some font for my headlines, and the prof said "Why did you choose that one?" and I really had no answer other than that it looked good. A 5 minute lecture on always having a reason and answer for doing anything ensued.
So, to this day I obsess over fonts and what they convey and what kind of mood they give and all that.
- decisionman0
Children's book about death that was slightly ... existential? By that I mean no real answers were given, no religious answers, that sort of thing ... interesting and fun as all hell. If hell existed.
;-)
- misterhow0
Everybody poops & dies.
- russdogg0
Hard to pin it down to a favorite, had so many...
- misterhow0
You've got to give me something.
- StratusGD0
In one of my senior seminar classes, we were supposed to make a book (yes, an actually book, binding an all) about 'text out of context.'
I took the test from a Cessna takeoff (or landing, I forget) checklist, and made it into a book without an obvious front or back, that didn't open correctly, and bent in random places. You had to fold the whole thing flat, and then follow a messed up path to read the text.
So, the text, while technically readable (there's no manipulation or intentionally poor typesetting), the text itself it totally useless as an information source. It's on my website if you want to see it.
It's not he most sophisticated thing, but it was fun.
- non0
a book about mullets.
- slappy0
There were some real hotties at my design school. Dont have any photo though.
- niconico0
a 21st-century mediatheque - we could define the word mediatheque however we pleased, and there was no thought to structure or budget.
it was awesome. i had origami-like floors that buckled and had huge cracks running through - so you could see below and above - and most of the walls were liquid crystal glass flickering between opaque and transparent.
oh, and a $120K modular italian seating system upholstered in black patent leather.