Eamon Ferrick

Documenting and representing real world objects on screen or in digital environments changes the way we experience those objects. For my object, I chose my small collection of Funko Pops. After researching how other websites i saw that when showing their collections it was very straight forward. It would show the collection and you’d be able to pick one and more info would pop up. I didn\'t want mine to be the same, so I made it so you can only see the silhouette and when you moved your mouse over one it show bring back the color. Then you could click on it to see more info and close up pictures.

The goal of this project is “Research, outline, write, design, and produce a piece of design using print, motion, and/or interaction/experience to educate the class about a designer(s) of your choice. The designer I chose was Saul Bass. We started the project by researching our designers and writing two small papers that covered their personal lives and their design careers. Then we found pics of their designs. Then we had to design something to showcase our research. I designed a set of 5 posters. The main poster was a focus on Saul’s roots in the Bauhaus movement and the second main poster focused on his work outside the title sequences. The biggest struggle for me with this project was coming up with surrealist answers that made sense for Batman and coming up with a design for those answers.

After the type and photo study we started gathering images and typography and started making collages. Through these collages we learned more about layering, composition, and how to make typography interact with different objects/patterns. As we kept making collages we increased the size of our collages until we were designing 2 posters that are 24 X 36. The objective for the two posters was to convey an idea over a system of two posters. My concept for my system of posters was creative vs. mechanical. The left poster was my creative poster. The creative poster is concentrated on the left side of the poster with my images and type dissipating to the right. However I used the word monster to connect the creative and mechanical. The mechanical side I struggled with creating because I remade it multiple times within the last 2 weeks of the project. I struggled the most with composition of the second poster along with having the 2 individual poster ideas to make sense overall as a system.