It’s Going On The Fridge
Exploring how to display 50+ thesis process questions
Brief: Recontextualize what a poster is to display 50 questions that you ask/think about while designing.
Looking at the 50 questions that I had written, I reorganized them to fall into themes: Interdisciplinary Curiosities, Data/Observation, Experience/Community, and Human Nature.
I then thought about what idea or concept related most to this idea. The largest driver of why I design is community and impact. I think of my work as something that can support a larger mission. I see my work as layer pieces that come together.
This reminded me of my former project, “Dear & Love”, where I was looking at my collection of cards received from friends and family. I thought of making the questions into cards or invitations. In doing so, I thought of my own family and how we love getting cards or collages of our extended family and when we do, we always put them on our fridge or white board.
This led me to the idea of “it’s going on the fridge”, where the fridge is the poster.
It invites people to interact with the pieces on the fridge and lets them explore the questions while also having the feeling of connectivity with the work.
Using the different themes, each theme manifests itself in a different type of form: the questions under interdisciplinary curiosites are in the form of fruit stickers, and the ones falling under data/observations are in the form of to-do lists, sticky notes, and business cards. Experience/Community questions are created to appear as cards, tickets, invitations, and polaroids. Questions relating to human nature are in the form of postcards.
It was a very reflective process because I chose pieces from my own life to add to the polaroids and postcards. I added elements and details to each piece to help push the feeling that these objects are the objects that they appear as.
This was a big challenge because I needed to think of different content and wanted each piece to feel different but uniform. I decided to use one typeface and see how different I could make the work. Since the questions are disguised as different types of objects, it felt right that if they are from different things that they’d feel that way.
After putting it together, I also wanted it to manifest in a digital space that captures the work but also gives people a chance to interact with the pieces, which led me to making a website where the pieces are moveable.
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