#startingpoints

Navigation

Aiming to navigate a space or set of information.

Consider how to gather and present information through selecting and reconstructing information to shape the audience's understanding.

Project types - Mapping, signing, interfaces, data visualisation, book-works.

Project examples - Words words words at selfridges, the digital relationship dance, colonic typeface for goertech.

Advocacy

Supporting or recommending a cause or policy.

Aiming to raise awareness and make change happen.

Idea that visual communicators have a social responsibility towards the larger community.

Impact - How does the internet shape communities, How can we make the world better.

Project types - Branding, Identity design, posters, videos, typefaces, infographics, exhibition.

Project examples - The occupy movement, on solid ground.

Participation

Becomeienvolved and takin part in something.

The audience participates in creating the outcome.

A formal system that the audience uses.

Changing behaviour - Influence decision making, build intrigue around an idea.

Project examples - Pixel drawings and gift scarfs, wallpaper magazine 'custom' covers. A fly in the urinal.

Conversation

Talk between 2 peopl.

How visual communication is experience and created through collaboration.

Feedback is collaboration - Build feedback into the creative process.

Project types - Workshops, interactions.

Project examples - Little printer, monYay!

Critique

Assessment of something

Critical comment

Visual communication being more proactive.

Projects which might spark conversation.

Visual communication is broad and becoming broader because of advancing technology.

Project types - Blog, monograph, exhibition, app design.

Project examples - Justified, scratching the surface. tree of codes.

Make two lists: one of things you are passionate about, another about things you enjoy about vis com.

Don't change your idea because it becomes hard.