This week I worked on creating the imagery for the exhibition and for the reframed website. I took the current graphics and information and started a draft for a storyboard, and also refined the vinyl cutout files to be printed next week.
Process Work: Storyboard
I wanted to try to emulate the style of the existing illustrations we were using for the guide and use them in the storyboard. I realized once I put the first drafts together, it was too dry and flat. The hierarchy and color were blending together and there was not enough contrast.
My goal was to show all the uses of the guide, and it was not as effective as I'd liked. after talking with Katherine, she suggested using tones more and editing the illustration style to be more contrasting.
Exhibition Set Up
As I mentioned last week, we spent time creating a visualization of what our exhibition setup would look like, and with that, we discovered the need to simplify. The original mockup was too busy, sometimes less is more. In our case, we wanted a vinyl cutout for our title/logo and the subheader description. I spent a lot of time looking at the size of the vinyl, if it would be too small or too big.
I printed out a to-scale image and placed it on the wall to look at. When we got to class on Tuesday we talked to Hu about it and he agreed with us that it was a reasonable size. The description text is going to have a gap on space on it, so I am going to fill it with my personal branding so I do not waste the vinyl scraps
Reading of the Week
We were planning to dress for the exhibition to match the mending techniques we are covering. So with that, I was trying to think of all the different ways I could display that work. Currently, I have a shirt that could use edge repair techniques like our guide covers, so I looked at fixing.fashions video for further inspiration.
I am not sure if I want to go in this direction, I may go in the patch repair direction because it would be a lot more obvious compared to the edge repair.
Next Steps
Our next steps are hopefully to print our designs and finish up the storyboard! It is grind time!!
This blog was written by Caitlyn Gass, co-founder of this project.
Last updated on 03.31.2023
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