This project was part of my final major project (see the second part here, How We Consume Information) and my entry for the ISTD student awards 2013. The brief that I chose to design for was called Books Still? This looked at how we read in the 21st century.
I chose to look at how we read and interact with content on smartphone devices. As well as this, I also treated the typography to help reflect the effect of touch interaction on the devices content in a literal way. This resulted in my creating “blurred” text to show movement and loading and twisting the text to show rotation. Additionally, finger prints where used to communicate how we interact with the devices screen.
The two typefaces that I used for this project are Droid Serif and Droid Sans. These fonts are used on most current Android mobile devices. The casing for the screen sized cards was shaped using a laser cutter and etched using a laser cutter too. Everything was created and prepared for cutting by myself in Illustrator. The size of the card and it’s packaging reflect the device I was using at the time to explore the project.
This project resulted in me achieving a Merit award and lifetime membership to the prestigious ISTD society.