We have replaced every subway station in the Stockholm subway with an emotion. And for every emotion there is a designated piece of opera- or ballet music. Enter the emotions you want to travel between in the Emotion Planner and you´ll get a playlist of music to enjoy along the way. Bring your hanky!
Scott Stowell asked us to come up with a mission statement and show our work in a way that supported that statement. Mine was that I'm a self-deprecating workaholic, so every day I destroyed one piece of work. You can see the works I destroy at jackielay.com
Tonya Douraghy's Time/Place might be the project that impresses me the most of all of the exceptional work for Unleashed: 2010 MFA SVA Designer as Author Thesis Projects - it reflects some of my own obsessions so I'm definitely biased - gorgeous simplicity and consistency in design aesthetic
"TIME / PLACE explores the political history of modern border conflicts through personal narratives. It is a book series as well as a digital archive designed to document subjective accounts of what war is like from the point of view of ordinary citizens.
Each book in the series focuses on one conflict. The first book of the series is TIME / PLACE: 1980-1988 Iran AND focuses on the Iran-Iraq War. The conflict is presented in three layers of depth: Facts, which builds a framework through timelines, maps, and data; Voices, personal stories from the war, annotated with relevant history, dates, and translations; and Landscapes, which uses photographs to document what the conflict really looks like on the ground."
Final movie clip for Giho Lee's graduate thesis for the SVA MFA Designer as Author Thesis Project investigating how everyday sound transforms our design and our visual lives.
A lovely story/image-sharing website created by Ifaat Qureshi for the 2010 SVA Designer as Author Thesis Projects.
"ABOUT
Spaghetti with Milk is a collection of short stories and visual art, which explores how food memories shape our personal and cultural identities. Food is a very fundamental part of our daily lives. It is a basic necessity to living. But, it also plays a far greater role in understanding human beings: what we hunger for, what pains us, what sustains us and what brings us joy. Food is often the tantalizing back-story to understanding who we are, and how and why we live. "This book began as a thesis project at the School of Visual Arts, Designer as Author Program, 2009-2010. It is now continuing as a website to collect and share food stories from the online community. This website also includes original stories and art from the book."
Another amazing project by Jackie Lay for the 2010 SVA MFA Designer as Author Thesis Project. I love this one.
"Ism is a series of short motion graphic videos that introduce academic ideas like nihilism, taoism, existentialism and buddhism in an exciting and accessible manner. By holding to a strict time limit of thirty seconds, each Ism video condenses an entire ideology into its purest form and filters out the inessentials.
Philosophy encourages people to partake in critical thinking and question the hows and whys of their daily lives. By encouraging people to be receptive to new ideas and challenge their preconceived notions of life, Ism hopes to help educate and spark a more enlightened culture.
Ism is currently looking for a compatible television network to show these thirty second films. Television networks with an educational, cultural or youth-oriented focus would be ideal."
Ism is currently considering the next topics for films. Possible future subjects include Darwinism, Marxism, Stoicism, Skepticism and Feminism. Any recommendations?
Sometimes I really love the era we are living in because of initiatives like Grassroots Mapping:
"Grassroots Mapping is a series of participatory mapping projects involving communities in cartographic dispute, started by Jeffrey Warren of the MIT Media Lab’s Center for Future Civic Media.
Who are we?
Over the last few months, we’ve build a global community of mappers who are engaged in civic issues with low-cost mapping tools like balloons, kites, and remote-control airplanes.
Stewart Long and Oliver Yeh have emerged as some of the top experts in this nascent field and collaborated with Jeff to organize the Gulf Oil Mapping project. Starting in early May, we have been working with New Orleans-based Louisiana Bucket Brigade to get citizens out on boats and along beaches to produce high-resolution aerial imagery of the spill’s effects. All the imagery from this project is being released into the public domain.
Map the oil spill with balloons and kites!
We’re helping citizens to use balloons, kites, and other simple and inexpensive tools to produce their own aerial imagery of the spill… documentation that will be essential for environmental and legal use in coming years.
We’re not trying to duplicate the satellite imagery or the flyover data (though we’re helping to coordinate some of the flyovers and trying to make sure the data is publicly accessible). We believe in complete open access to spill imagery and are releasing all imagery into the public domain."
Sentimentalist is a fascinating project completed for the 2010 SVA MFA Designer as Author Thesis Project created by Marlyn Dantes who describes herself as a graphic designer with a background in philosophy. Not all of the website functions demoed on the SVA graduate project site seem to be active yet, but this will be an site to remember once its fully functional.
'WHAT IS IT?
Sentimentalyst (“Sentiment Analyst”) is a web application that uses natural language processing to compare news coverage about specific stories. It's a tool to encourage those who rely on the Internet as their primary news source to broaden their media diets. Sentimentalyst analyzes 3 aspects of reportage: the headline; the underlying positive and negative emotions; and the word countand displays the data in infographs on the website. In the end, you get a visualization of comparative news analysis on topics that interest you. Sentimentalyst encourages users to broaden their media diets and read information from sources they would otherwise not seek out. There are many ways to tell a story. Should you trust just one?'
"Thrilling Tales of the Downright Unusual" is a project I started working on in July 2009 - it's a combination web/print project which has now launched at its own web site with Part One of a serialized story called "The Toaster With TWO BRAINS".
The Thrilling Tales are densely illustrated, lightly interactive stories set in Retropolis, my world of the retro future. Retropolis embodies the kind of future people dreamed about in the 1920s and 1930s - those days when we were *really good* at imagining the future - full of faithful robots, personal rocket ships, and the fascinating, if disturbing, inventions that pour out of the Experimental Research District. (The accent there is on "Mental".)
The stories can be read in their entirety at the web site (for free!) or purchased as full color books (not for free!).