This semester I’ve been taking a class called “making meaning.” It’s a class that focuses on conceptual development as well as building an understanding of the visual modes we work in and the associations they bring with them. It’s been one of the most satisfying classes I’ve taken here at RISD and one of the main reasons I’ve been so sporadic about posting here.
One of the subjects we attempted to tackle was mapping information and the different modes available to designers to map information. We were then charged with developing a mapping assignment that used diagrammatic information, expressive typography, and photography to tell a story. All semester I was looking for an excuse to watch a football game and be able to ‘write it off’ as homework and for this assignment I finally got my chance.
I went up to Boston to meet up with Stuart and Anne, two of my former coworkers from Zumiez and fellow Seahawks fans so I could capture data. I ended up capturing a lot more than I worked in to the project. It turned into a 72 page book charting our verbal outbursts at the television and diagrams of the plays that were run to bring out those outbursts.
