Design@SUNYIT: COM320 Project Two: Typographic Map

Using only color, type, and typographic elements design a poster that communicates your trip from your home to room G238 in Donovan Hall. Consider the experience of traveling from your home to this space, not just the literal process. How long does it take? Do you walk, rode a bike, take public transportation, or drive? Are there obstacles and/or difficulties, or can you travel easily? Is it bumpy, smooth, noisy, quiet, straight, curvy, confusing, or familiar? Does the environment change over time? What other ways can you think of to describe your experience?

The goal of this assignment is not to create a map that has precise information in terms of distance and locations, but one that accurately relates your experience of the trip solely through the use of type and typographic elements. You will need to consider how the elements relate to each other on semantic/syntactic axis as well as in relationship to a basic time-series structure.

To begin your project you will be expected to write a narrative description of your trip; this narrative should be at least 500 words, though a really detailed on may be considerably longer. Be incredibly descriptive; perhaps make the trip several times in order to examine different types of experience. What do you see, hear, feel (both tactilely and emotionally)? Consider the pace of events. What you are looking for is an enormity of experience (data) from which to shape a meaningful map/design. This narrative will then be narrowed down in terms of what parts must be handled by language the use and what can be handled through visual organization and the expressive use of type.

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