prototyping the future

Last week it was 'prototyping the future' time. It is a one week of workshops on different topics like mobility, biology, philosophy and many more. I decided to go for an info-graphics course, as I had the chance to get a sneak-peak last semester.

I only had two and a half days, so it was a quite short attempt, but I learned quite a bit about showing (or not showing) information. I really liked working on information graphics, hopefully i get another chance soon - maybe with a little more time...

graphic design exhibition

That's how we set up the exhibition. The triangular boxes represent one student each. There is the portrait photography on one side, the poster on the second and the text on the third - done by three different students.
The animations about each student are projected on the wall.

We built an interactive terminal to choose the animation you want to look at (see video)
As long as no animation is played, the screensaver animation i did is running, giving the explanation on who did which media on whom...(see video) There is an RFID tag in each wooden thingy, read out by a RFID reader mounted below the table.

it moves_2

Another small animation i made to explain our tasks during the last five weeks...It runs as a part of the exhibition at UID, so it is maybe not 100% self-explanatory...core-information: who did what on whom - got it? 

it moves

Last week we finished with our 5 week graphic-design / visualization course...The last task was to do an animation using only type. It should use parts of the text one of our classmates wrote about another classmate some weeks before + music the person it is about likes.

See my result above!

shape type

Great game on type to waste time and test the grade of your typefaces-geekyness.

shape type

graphic design_2

 

Everyone needed to take another one's portrait to translate it into a poster. Some type elements should be taken from the portrait we wrote on each others some weeks before.

graphic design

We finished with a great class on graphic with the swiss designer Christian Altmann today. See his work here.

The task was to design a cd cover for "Johann Sebastian Bach's Brandenburgische Konzerte". These are the results.