My brain seems to be of the opinion that there is still time to spare before my assessment setup, and insists on wasting portions of my day feeling sleepy, feeling bored and just generally being allergic to work.
I hardly post about work, not because I don’t want to share, but really, it is just my immense laziness kicking in.
In an attempt to fulfill my procrastination quota for today, I thought I’d post up various photos of my work this year.
If you’re new here, or just haven’t spoken to me in a year hahaha, my project is essentially about change, the struggle people face with it, and how graphic design can be used as a tool to address this issue.
Last semester, I defined three change profiles, identifying three common reasons why people struggle with change.
The Linus Complex (yes, named after Linus from Snoopy comics) is about comfort zones and the reluctance to leave it, thus the security blanket. DID YOU KNOW, those letters were hand-cut out of some felt-like cloth, by… *drummroll* my boyfriend?! Hahahaha. I was severely running out of time, and he came over one night and worked through the night cutting those letters. He was shockingly neat, since he completely failed at cutting something neatly out of cardboard. So thankful for helping hands!
The Regimental Fixation (can I just rudely interrupt and very unabashedly say that I really like the names of the profiles? hahahaha) is about relishing control in one’s life, thus developing an unwillingness to let go of this control in the face of changes that look set to take it away. The letters weren’t meant to look so random and organic – they turned out that way because of uncooperative metal wires, which really annoyed the hell out of me. ALSO, the ‘f’ broke about an hour or so before I had to clear out from the room. Heart attack moment #846464.
The Myopic Impulse is a sense of shortsightedness, where one only accepts change that they deem positive, neglecting to look at circumstances in a larger picture POV. It is also the profile which sees the least number of people being able to identify themselves under. Hurhur. The text on the poster could only be seen clearly when looking the pair of red ‘glasses’.
That was last sem’s work, alongside two videos, an editorial and profile booklets on each profile. This sem was about addressing each profile, in order to highlight the issue to people who fell under each profile, and also encouraging them to look at change in a new perspective because really, it isn’t as scary once you change your mindset.
Lol, easy to say huh. I’ve come to realise that I struggle with change a lot more than I had previously thought.
A quiz was created to help people discover which profile they belong to. I didn’t want a flat question and answer quiz, neither did I want a Flash quiz, so I created a more ‘organic’ response, using coloured threads for respondents to mark their answers.
In the midst of creating responses for each of the profiles, which I should be doing right now instead of blogging but haha. They’re all incomplete, but here’s a snippet:
AND YES, I created my own Viewmaster reel. MUAHAHAHA. I wish I didn’t throw away all my old reels from when I was younger! I loved all the Disney ones.
OK BRAIN ARE YOU HAPPY NOW THAT YOU HAVE WASTED ENOUGH TIME?
