Month: May 2023

The third experiment, the Broadsheet, is a more traditional method of sharing information, not unlike a manifesto, through economically-made paper handouts. The design and form references newspaper editorial vernacular as a wink to the content and an acknowledgement of the long history of what is thought of as trustworthy journalism. The integration of digital layouts and examples onto print plays with the assumptions that are made about printed material, its greater credibility and authenticity, by subverting expectations of the print news vernacular. 

The information and annotations from the Board are converted into an interactive dimensional model in the Handheld Diagram. The Handheld Diagram visualises the opaque digital screen’s hyperlinks to visualise the concept of adding in additional layers of information through tactile examples. It references artists like Orna Feinstein in layering and David Batchelor in materiality. The Handheld Diagram seeks a similar kind of representation where the subject is abstracted and is conveyed in the layers building up the material and references the electric energy and complexity from the digital web as a nod to the cyberspace in which the subjects reside.

The scale and dimension of this diagram stems from questions that developed in the first experiment. How can this content be understood without reading the entire article? Could the layering be expressed visually? Could it be less intimidating to interact with? Can we let systems be complex and multifaceted? The goal with this second experiment is to play with expressing the ideas distinctively to discover different ways people learn best.

I researched materials and process for the UV printer so I could get a good idea of what it would look like to build layers on transparent acrylic.

I came up with a few layouts for how the annotations would be stacked behind one another.

I was trying to cram a lot of information on one A3 and in my production surgery I was recommended Newspaper Club as a cost effective way to print at the scale of a broadsheet. It was an epiphany- I’ve been talking about news for a year, I should really just make a newspaper. The broadsheet iterations began.

With the extra space, I worked on layouts that would include my writing, citation information and had room for some of the examples I had brought up in my Unit 2 research presentation to really hit it home.