Several years ago, the Provost launched a new campaign to make WSU and the Ogden Community more aware of environmental concerns which affect our daily lives. These important environment issues are now part of WSU’s Engaged Learning Center (ELC) program, and themes for their annual Engaged Learning Series – http://www.weber.edu/ccel/els.html.Last year’s theme was “On Water” – and included a variety of presentations and projects campus-wide which disseminated information and issues regarding water and its relationship to us. This year's theme is “Waste.”This design project includes participation with this initiative and concern.You will research and collect information about WASTE and how it affects us personally and our daily pursuits, then create a information graphic/poster that can hang in the Bridge Gallery in the Union Building.
This project also fits with two significant and timely approaches in the design profession today – “Designer as Author” and “Design for Good.” A “Designer as Author” approach emphasizes the creation of content as well as form, and its outcomes are aimed directly for a marketplace of goods and ideas. The prestigious School of Visual Arts in NY offers an MFA program in this design approach – http://design.sva.edu/, and it has also been a timely topic on many design forums the last ten years –http://www.eyemagazine.com/feature/article/the-designer-as-author. A “Design for Good” approach emphasizes the implementation of design thinking for social change. The AIGA created this platform several years ago to support and sustain designers who play a catalytic rule in communities through projects that create positive social impact – http://www.aiga.org/design-for-good/.This project is also a vehicle to introduce you to problem/solution design methodologies. A score of the most prevalent Design Methodology is also found on this class blog under Class Content.
Poster Objective:
To raise awareness, improve person behavior, and increase public engagement around the issue of “Waste”, exploring it thru the prisms of culture, economics, education, health, politics, environment, or design.
Poster Requirements:
• The poster must be informative, statistical and engaging.
• The poster must incorporate at least one significant statistic. The statistic must come from a credible “academic” study, which needs to “referenced” on the poster.
• The Designer's Name, along with the Reference will be set in san serif, regular weight, all caps, 10 pt type, with two spaces before and after a vertical bar (pipe) character between each.
• At best the reference will have been “published” in a peer-reviewed academic journal with the reference listing the following CMS format: Author's Name, Paper Title, Book Title, Publisher's City: Publisher's Name, year.
At minimum, reference the web site url the statistic was gleaned from, with the statistic’s study name, author, and year.
• The poster must incorporate at least one significant responsive course of action.
• Final Poster Size- 30x40; Final Poster File - 300 dpi, high-res, CYMK jpeg, tiff or pdf.
• A half-size (15x30) printed version of the poster (use Epson 4000 in lab) will due 10/28.
• The final hi-res digital file of the poster burned onto a “labeld” CD will due 11/3.
• A 30x40 printed version of the final poster design will be hung in WSU Union Bridge
Gallery during the 2016 Intermountain Sustainability Summit next spring.
Project Schedule
Content Due Tuesday, October 6
Concepts Thumbnails Due, Thursday, October 8
Design Roughs Due, Thursday, October 15
Design Comp Due, Tuesday, October 20
Final Design Critique, Tuesday, October 27
Final Printed Design Due, Thursday, October 29
- 15 x 20, Printed on Epson 4000
Final Design File Due, Tuesday, November 4th
- 30 x 40, 300 DPI, JPEG or Hi-Res Print PDF
