Word By Word
EXHIBITION DESIGN, SKETCHUP, STORYTELLING, AFTER EFFECTS
Word by Word is a traveling exhibition educating high school students on book censorship.
PROBLEM SPACE
Across the U.S., high school students are increasingly denied access to important books on diverse topics. These include classics, unique narratives, and new perspectives. Restrictions by school boards, administrators, and some parental groups limit this exploration of history and ideas. These actions greatly threaten students’ intellectual freedom and educational growth.
EXHIBITION FEATURES
A list of defined categories or objectives that I wanted to come out of the exhibition design at hand.
DESIGN SOLUTION
This exhibition design discusses the impact that book banning has on educational and personal growth for high school students. The exhibition guides students through the impacts of book banning and explains how this issue has evolved. To engage high school students throughout the exhibition, includes an emotional feedback wall, spaces to vote on book bans, revealing informational components, and walls to connect them as a community, so they can start to advocate on this issue.
PROCESS: PRIMARY RESEARCH & AUDIENCE DEFINITION
Given the context of censorship at hand, it is affecting a majority of titles that fall into the teen or young adult category. Therefore, in determining the audience for this exhibition, I decided to focus it on this category of readers, who are primarily in high school.
In understanding my audience better, I conducted a variety of interviews with not only high school students but also teachers, librarians, and a parent. In addition to this, in order to collect enough primary research data, I also gathered insights from a survey. Below are insights gathered from interviews.
PROCESS: PERSONA
PROCESS: SURVEY FEEDBACK
In other results collected to the best of their knowledge they were asked to define what themes in literature are most commonly attacked right now. The top highlighted content was related to the representation of the LGBTQIA+ community, sexual material, race related topics, and political subject matter.
PROCESS: SECONDARY RESEARCH
In tandem with connecting with my selected audience, I was conducting secondary research to help generate my content for the exhibition.
PROCESS: MOODBOARD
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PROCESS: DESIGN SYSTEM
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PROCESS: LOGO DESIGN
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PROCESS: FINAL LOGO DESIGN
In my final logo, I really wanted to bring forward this experiment of representing an idea of annotating or the altering of text by using highlighting treatments, crossing things out, or circling. In using this kind of treatment, I felt that it really spoke to the fact that the issue of book censorship is always changing.
In addition to the structure of the logo itself, I went forward with all words stacked left-aligned in italic, as it represents the idea of a bookshelf and books leaning against each other.
PROCESS: FINALIZED WALL ELEVATIONS
Scale 1’=1”
PROCESS: DIGITAL WALKTHROUGH STORYBOARDING
To be paired with my model, I wanted to do a full-scale digital walkthrough of my sketch, so the storyboards are a representation of my thought process when it came to the sequencing of the video.
PROCESS: MODEL CONSTRUCTION
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FINAL MODEL
FINAL SKETCHUP MODEL SCENES
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DIGITAL WALKTHROUGH
A more flamboyant color palette and method of hierarchy to nod towards the excitement that surrounds your potential upcoming travel plans. Emphasis on contrast is desired to be fluid throughout the final design to make all segments digestible.