Morph Exercises
Taking a scuba helmet and transforming it into a snail helped me to think and pay attention to those important middle stages.
Combining three images AND their transitions was a good exercise to get in the right mindset to think and work with that concept of middle ground. Here I incorporated a tree and a bank to give the feel of a stream. I then made the majority of it the river with the ocean in the background.
Visualizations
Over the process of ideating, I gained more clarity on what type of transition I wanted to pursue. Some of my more favorite ideas were: childbirth, smoking cigarettes, irresponsibility causing bad grades, and an idea of a change in generations over time. Although I didn’t choose any of those, I kind of took that idea of generation change and ran with it. You can find rough sketches of my initial ideas here!
Prototypes
During my prototyping phase, I was still unsure of what exactly I wanted to pursue. I used this time to construct varying mechanics that I hoped would spark some ideas through seeing the different motions and uses of shape and space. During this time I became interested in a cyclical usage (especially because I wanted to deal with a change over time and a circle is common symbolism of clocks and connections). I began to come up with the idea of the transition of the 1920s to the 2020s. I thought I could start with an image that represented the 1920s and then ‘fast forward’ through the decades to reveal the 2020s. During the critique of the ideation draft, the point was brought up that we don’t quite know what 2020 will even be. This inspired me to go down a path of ‘we decide the future’. You can view my prototypes right here
Final Dynamic Page
My final model plays on the fact that even though society has changed and warped dramatically over the decades, we have continued to experiment with pop culture, art, and expression. How I achieved this was by modeling the project after vinyl records because the popularity of records skyrocketed in the 1920s.
You can view the breakdown of the mechanics and reasoning here
Decades!
In my wheel I modeled each section by its corresponding decade!
1920 was modeled after the record and the black and gold Art Deco color scheme
1930 was modeled after the black and white Oxford shoe
1940 was modeled after the American flag for WWII
1950 was modeled after the popular red dress with white polka dots trend
1960 was modeled after the moon landing
1970 was modeled after the classic teal and white VW van
1980 was modeled after popular patterns that included fun geometric shapes and bright colors
1990 was modeled after the classic disposable cup with the blue and purple design
2000 was modeled after the popular color scheme at the time with popular use of stars and asymmetric pattern
2010 was modeled after the popular use of rainbow zebra print
2020 was not modeled after anything, but does have some abstracted pathway-looking design because I wanted to symbolize that we don’t know what the decade will be so we decide what path to go down.
