Feel Better | Visual systems
A collaborative project.
For this project, we created a visual system to map the AUB campus.
Initially, we were tasked with choosing an aspect of the university campus that we could use to create a portrait of AUB. After carrying out observational research, we focused on the students who made up this university and considered the distinctive qualities of the students.
“ 79% of illustrators have anxiety or confidence issues related to work.”
— Ben O’Brien, a.k.a Ben the Illustrator
After surveying the students, we examined their anxieties within their design disciplines to discover the struggles that creative students face within this industry.
Once we had identified the areas that students struggled with at university, we began to categorise the responses within their respective skill sets including: analogue, digital, communication, performance, making, reading/writing and design process.
When we were coming up with an outcome idea, we thought about the term ‘treatment’ and what could be ‘prescribed’ to improve a skill.
To conclude this project we designed a prescription printer to ‘cure creative anxiety’ with variants on the ‘advice’ depending on which skill set it fitted into. As mental health and anxiety are serious issues, we felt it was important to strike a light-hearted and humorous tone with our prescriptions.
Extension
Creative Quote of the Day.
Following the feedback, I decided to explore an alternative outcome for the project while still using the receipt printing processing format. I chose quotes from established creatives in the industry to create these typographic print-outs aiming to inspire students.
Tell the story | Book Design
Design a journey book to document your design process.
At the end of this project I designed a book that documented the development of the brief from the initial research and insights to the final outcome. I really enjoyed putting this together as a whole in terms of formatting the pages, coming up with a grid, way-finding system and ultimately telling the story.
