Samantha Swol

During this project I began documentation of a physical collection in as many ways as I could think of. I then went on to iterate a website to host this collection, and considered ways my documentation and website could convey the feeling of these items. I researched how these items are used, their texture, design, shape and target audience. Continuing research into how traditional collections are categorized through average means like shopping, museum curation, digital photo albums and more. Through the design phase I captured a wide variety of user testing to ensure that functionality remained for all ages as well as observe any user frustrations. Making improvements with each revision I had discovered stop motion, a soft color gradient, and a left to right scrolling experience provided visual storytelling coupled with the ways I captured the object in stop motion and photography.

To sharpen my visual storytelling narrative through typography and imegry I began with a grid structure for my foundation. Using the grid structure I began to design the elements of the book around the images selected for the book. I carefully photographed the chosen images to represent organization, and tucked them neatly within the grid structure. After reviewing the body copy, I wanted to visually emphasize this boo was about organization versus disorganization, and to emphasize that one page would demonstrate the same image disoriented from the grid, with the other neatly placed within the grids structure. These visuals of balanced, clean typography on half the book, with matching images plus disjointed typography and imagery on the other is a key takeaway. These elements assist the reader in becoming informed of the contents before reading the authors materials. The overall composition is in black and white as I wanted the image and typographic elements to be at the forefront and I did not wish to use color as a narrative element.

Immersive Space group project where we took an article and created an experience around the content using specific sets of tools and technology. For this project we had been tasked with using AR / XR technology to tell a multidimensional story.