Menifesto
Exhibition Visit
Visual Symbol - Rabbit
This week, I have further explored the association between forms and life stage choices, the relationship between personal identity and passive internal depletion, as well as the visual expression of the "rabbit" imagery.
I studied the design ideas behind different types of forms(#1), analysed the solutions for different groups of people under internal conflict and distilled into textual content(#2) and use into a menifesto(#4), and refined the visual identity of the "rabbit" (#3) as the main visual to be used in the layout of the grid system and text content.
I'm continually looking for correlations between the three, trying to use different visual mediums to make my input and output clearer.
Last Week Tutor‘s Feedback
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1. Pay attention to the consideration of the concept of input and output, but do not be bound to immediately give the final word, the project route to the current multi-dimensional development of the experiment can be continued. How visual is communicated?
Ref:
https://martens-martens.com/
2. Continue to pay attention to and explore the design thinking behind some of the forms & grids, digging into the points related to the project.
Ref:
THE VIGNELLI CANON - Exploration - Graphic Grid System
3. The form mentioned in the core content is our life, so is it possible to "break" these forms as a way to solve our anxiety and emptiness?
Grid System
For us Graphic Design is “organization of information.” There are other types of graphic design more concerned with illustration or of a narrative nature.
Nothing could be more useful to reach our intention than the Grid. The grid represents the basic structure of our graphic design, it helps to organize the content, it provides consistency.
Visual Form attempt that I made. (I tried masking and grid systems)
Scentence&Content collected from different people’s answer for “How Do You Avoid Void” & “How Do You Make Choice”. (Metioned it below)
Survey Paper Design
Conclusion:
Proverbs "Don't Chase the rabbit" appears on many memories and time-travel films. This adage has a strong visual association with the internal conflict and memories that come with life stage choices. Going back to what was said in week one, different tables/forms give us strong scene associations, our emotional thresholds are raised in the moment, we suddenly have heightened awareness of what we're doing, and then we think and remember over and over again the choices we made at that time.
Then don't chase rabbits can be a good reverse expression to avoid this internal conflict and instead choose in more easily mood. Because what we should be doing is jumping out from those limitation, grid and form, and the rabbit carries the "mysterious, hopping" imagery that reminds me of this so well.
In the story Mr White Rabbit leads Alice into the world of fantasy. Representing the image of mystery, the unknown, the leader of the way. The rabbit always gives a dynamic image and makes people think of "following it".
Mythology: /Celtic mythology/
Rabbits are associated with resurrection and spring, symbolising the rebirth and renewal of life. They are also associated with the goddess Eostre, the origin of the Easter Bunny.
Lines “Don't Chase The Rabbit” appear when the protagonist is affected by memories of the past. When piloting the machine in the film, the 2 drivers need to connect empathic, but this causes them to see memories from the past and not be able to carry out their mission if they stay trapped and don't want to escape. The instruction implies staying focused and not getting distracted by random thoughts or memories, which could disrupt the connection and compromise the mission.
I also created 4 simple keyframes to form a continuous image of the rabbit in motion.
I designed a manifesto in conjunction with a line drawing of a pixel bunny. three forms were tried out in terms of visual organisation, moving towards a grid system and a programming language.
I modelled the content of each short sentence on the form of code writing to emphasise keywords.