#weekseven

I produced a flatlay of the box to contain the book in illustrator and then took this across to the labs to laser cut into wood.

See the environment around us whoch we do not also critically analyse and look past

Pavement typefaces maybe

Delay

Design box

Look at publications that do what you do

Synthesising all the research

Do it in time and do it well

If you’re telling us what we already know why would we read that

What is the Value add

Develop the knowledge

Tap into what you are excited about

Process over outcome

Block optical character recognition

Sang wun

Z effects

Anthropecene

High fashion

Sex fetishising of a book

Ground at the start

How urgent and how increasingly it is a problem

An opportunity to use type and image together

Robert mapplethorpe

Anne noble

Anne shelton

Taryn simon

First woman to make a book

Flow

Photo

Square

12 inch

Music

Focus on the absolute essentials of the narrative

Rachel whitehead

Capture hold and sell us the idea

Captioning on slides

Rice paper or ohp

With messages overlaying the images

First few pages have rationale

Here’s what I’m trying to do

Embossing and deboss

Foiling can be better than laser

Packaging is the

Kingsize

White studios

Student photo sh

Gordon

Uniti

Contenporary art books

Object space

Parnell rise book shop

Record stores

Multiple little books

Readymag

Website

NFC chips to augmented stuff

Competitive

Intriguing

Aggressive

Think about how this is going to age.

In ten years are you going to look back and cringe? Or is it going to be a great piece of work you can be proud of?

It’s about words

It’s about language

Really hero that through massive type on spreads

Title of the publication needs work

Instead of a wooden box

Let’s use cardboard and emboss it into a book slip (inspo dunbar studio)

Simplify it into sections like a record album

These were my prototype sketches made over the mid semester break. They show the app interface and how that could work when interacting with branded power grid boxes around Auckland city with QR codes painted on them.

Today in class we shared our prototypes that we had been producing over the mid semester break with the class. 

This activity did help me get a clearer understanding of where I should start developing this project next. It was also quite difficult as not many people at our table were offering much feedback apart from Ben and myself. So it felt like a two way communication rather than a group critique. 

Things the group reminded me to consider: 

• Some people are really outgoing (stereotypically sporty) and others aren’t. I think you need to be careful about which audience group you are specifically targetting. Because your concept is to make people more socially connected but the people who really need that connection aren’t going to be interested in the outdoors but rather discord servers and video game lobbies. 

• It is interesting that you haven’t yet implemented a sharing feature to allow the app to go viral among friend groups. I understand that you are trying to create a halfway integration between the real world and the digitial worlds. Maybe think about how this could be shared in a campaign to make the app popular. 

• How are you going to draw people into using the app. Especially, people who are already addicted to their phones and who aren’t really present without much structure or routine in their lives. 

Key Takeaways:

• Your next step is to start creating a cohesive design system for the app (Typographic style, colours, branding, iconography, screen layouts, purpose). 

• After that the job will be to motion design different in app experiences to demonstrate the user experience flow through different page sequences and to demonstrate real world applications (showing scanning posters). 

The contents of our presentation slide.