Website UI - Final Piece

Sketch

• Website presenting social media awareness posters 
• About - describing the posters and what the content is referencing 
• Create - page for people to create their own poster (using selective colorways)
• Share - share website (on social media)

Mock-Ups

Poster View Page(s)

The page/screen you will be taken too after clicking on one of the poster thumbnails on the website homepage.

Final Website 

https://youtu.be/gAQu4btSKBw

The final website consists of all the features mentioned above. You will be able to access the posters, posted on the home page, as you scroll over them a tab presenting a quick description of the poster will appear and if you select it, you will be able to view the motion graphic poster(s). There's an 'ABOUT' tab option where you read a more detailed description of the project and its purpose to explore 'social media awareness'. 

There's an option to 'CREATE' and send your own poster designs based on 'social media awareness'; and an option to 'SHARE' the website (on social media). 

Poster Series (Motion)

• Poster with moving/editable content within - allows for more varied designs + opens up for opportunities of collaboration.
• The poster series could be presented digitally on a social media platform (Own website and Instagram) and allow for submissions.

(1)

https://youtu.be/Q6DSOaa1_UU

(2)

https://youtu.be/0Eq-uliAibc

(3)

https://youtu.be/wEP-DymoypI

(4)

https://youtu.be/S-Vk1WiL6T4

VR // Symbols

VR Panoramic of poster 

Symbols (stills)

Posters Series

About 

Questioning if social media platforms affect/influence graphic designers’ production and working habits - through repeated imagery and leading messaging (as to replicate the tailoring of content that is supplied on social media). The posters would also aim to present a sort of awareness of social media colour palette inspired by the Instagram logo. this poster series would be published as a zine if finished.

Poster 1

(Front)

• Eyes referencing focus on content/screen.
• Leading question (type) focal point of the poster.
• Negative space in composition presenting space for chosen imagery to be placed in (behind text)

(Back)

• Eyes looking toward the centre - to where another eyes' focus is on the reader. Referencing the potential connection between the nature of the question to the reader (designers being influenced by selective posts)

Poster 2

(Front)

(Back)

Poster 3

Poster 4

Poster 5

Revamping of the Instagram app led by Ian Spalter, allows Instagram to present a window into other perspectives ‘what normal is in another place’

'Privacy and how algorithms are essentially governing taste and creative output for designers'

Poster series

POSTER SERIES PRESENTING SOME OF THE PITFALLS OF SOCIAL MEDIA I.E. TARGETTED POSTS INFLUENCING THE MOLDING OF ARTISTS INTO THE SAME STYLES OF WORKING.

INSTAGRAM GRADIENT

TYPE FILLS COMPOSITION AS TO PRESENT INTENSITY OF QUESTION ASKED

PANORAMIC VIEW USED AS TO PRESENT THE ENCOMPASSING NATURE OF THE CONTENT I'M PRESENTING - ALGORITHMS GOVERNING TASTE AND IF THE OVERUSE OF SOCIAL MEDIA IS MOLDING ARTISTS INTO HAVE THE SAME STYLE.

POSTER 1

 (FRONT)

(BACK)

POSTER 2

(FRONT)

(BACK)

Layout

Top two referencing the topic more subtly, while the bottom two push the agenda clearly.

and that the overuse of social media is molding designers into having the same output;

(molding clay)

access to new people and cultures that we otherwise wouldn’t be able to see on a daily basis.

Ian Spalter: Why Designers Should Work Like Comedians

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xqi1htY1P8U

Design or Data-Driven work - Ian Spaltter (head of design Instagram) speaks on 

• And  how his craft lends into both 'design' and 'data'
• the importance of working principles as an organization (point of view + personality), and 'what data are you going to pay attention to make those emotional connections

• Ian Spalter's approach of taking inspiration from other art forms/crafts (comedy)

WYF Podcast - Counting syllables of words as writing/speaking jokes 'almost like songs' (Jerry Sinfield)

Comedy 

Metric = Laughs 

Goal = Emotions 

Bringing personality into the design to differentiate.

'maybe to fix design, designers need to become better comedians' 

Damien Hurst - Snapchat

Designed by Damien Hurst, a new camera filter on Snapchat that allows you to create your own spin paintingsPatrnered with Partners In Health, an organisation that helps communities in developing countries around the world cope with the devastating impact of COVID-19

'This Snapchat experience is an exploration in community-made art through the lens of augmented reality'