Something I am working on as part of my Museum Project for GD2. This is actually the first spread of part of the narrative piece in the project. The 5x5 inch pages will be inside of a 5 1/4 floppy drive (re: these) and contain a 10 1/8 inch square, fold-out map of the museum labeling the exhibits and their locations within the building. I used to live in Chicago just over a decade ago and since I miss it, I’ve decided to place my fictional museum in the 37 Block of downtown Chicago across from Marshall Field’s at the corner of State Street and Washington Street. (Street View)
Diagrammatic Sci-Fi
I’ve been a bit busy tweaking my designs of the Image Dominate and Type Dominate layouts the last few days. I had a few suggestions from my professor to change the color scheme a little (“feels too 70s”) so I opted to remove the brown tones and go for something a little more Retro Sci-fi. I feel like I am a little closer (I’ll post the final versions when the project is due next week) so tonight I jumped on the Diagrammatic layout. In the assignment sheet, it says “This layout should be developed based upon specific information or qualities of your object/theme. Possibilities include a timeline, diagram, chart, etc.” I had a few ideas, but I felt they were a little too illustrative and that I needed to scale it back to the important design elements making it diagrammatic like the assignment calls for.
So to keep the layouts working like a series, I went back to the little robot guy that I created and decided to build a story around him as an enemy of the world. If you can’t read the image, the concept revolved around the idea that this robot is radio controlled from the Martian Homeland, sent to earth to conquer by proxy. It has already taken most of Europe and is currently occupying Moscow and all of Russia. The new battle is about to begin on American soil and what I am making is a poster for the U.S. Space Patrol Taskforce Delta alerting citizens that they are coming and how to identify the new model (Axion 2700).
Though this one looks a little different, I kept a similar color set as the others I recently modified, as well as reusing the robot. Keeping these elements, I hope, should be enough to have them work together as a series even though this one slightly departs for the other designs. I wanted to make the diagrammatic work more directly, but I felt this one provided me with an opportunity to make something as if it existed in the Sci-fi theme I am using. We’ll see how it goes over in class tomorrow.
