Create an augmented reality poster using Artivive.
Getting started: https://artivive.com/resources/getting-started/create-your-first-ar-artwork/
Some examples and case studies:
https://www.ravenshane.ca/case-study-ar-poster
Augmented poster by Ta-Daa Studio, Geneva
The format doesn’t necessarily need to be a poster: it can be a postcard, an image in a publication…
When working in the non-english-speaking world, it’s a common scenario that a typeface used for a design is missing a small number of diacritics or glyphs used in a specific language – german, icelandic, norse, polish…
A language that uses the latin alphabet “plus some special characters” is the Pan-Nigerian alphabet. By adding those characters to a font that was missing them, the font becomes usable for millions of people. Nigeria has a population of approximately 216.7 million, speaking over over 525 native languages.
In this exercise, students receive the task to make an open-source font available for the Nigerian native languages, by adding the missing characters.
The list of glyphs needed:
The first edition of Genuary was launched in January 2021: the website genuary2021.github.io provided 31 prompts – 1 per day – to invite participants to “make beautiful things with code”.
GENUARY aims to make it possible for people to do 31 daily prompts, one every day, during that day.
On the Generative reddit board, Piterpisma writes:
it started in Inktober, when a couple of generative artists remarked they found it difficult to apply the prompts of Inktober to generative art. Then I thought I came up with the name “Genuary”
Productions were to be shared on twitter using the hashtag #genuary2021.
Some participants documented their creations on a website, such as data scientist Ram Narasimhan (who codes using the Python extension of Processing).
Another edition takes place in 2022, the website being genuary.art and the twitter hashtag #genuary2022. Some of the prompts:
A github issue collects prompt suggestions for the 2023 edition.
A similar five-day prompt was launched in November 2021 under the name “Plot Party” by the pen plotter community. The prompts were:
Results are gathered on the Pen Plotter Artwork Blog, and can be found via the #plotparty hashtag.
A few years ago, Taschen released a heavy volume of web design history – Web Design: The Evolution of the Digital World 1990-Today.
The survey in the book ends in 2018.
In this brief, students are asked to continue the story by adding a new chapter – how does the current year in web design look like? They will have to identify current design trends, major innovations, notable websites, and organize the information following the examples in the book.
Depending on the number of students, they can work on one year, or on several missing years (2019, 2020, 2021…).
This brief is inspired by this line, by photographer Joséphine Michel, on her collaboration with Mika Vainio:
Écouter tous les matins un de ses albums, puis aller photographier des lieux en correspondance avec sa musique. Dans la nature, ou dans les musées de sciences
Source: Fisheye Magazine
Engage students in a tournament of “layer tennis” (also known as Photoshop ping-pong”. According to Wikipedia:
The players pick a starting image, or one is “served” by a player, then another player makes some sort of alteration to the image in any chosen image editor (matches are not exclusive to Adobe Photoshop). They then send the altered image to the other player or players, usually via e-mail or by posting the image to a Photoshop tennis forum, who then edits that image and sends it back to the first player. This process goes back and forth until a predetermined number of rounds have elapsed, or the players otherwise wish to end the game.
In the 2014/04 issue of TM-RSI, Helmut Schmid writes a recollection:
My first typographic exercice under Emil Ruder was twenty variations of a small size newspaper ad. Eight of them were shown in November 1961 in Graphisches abc, a german magazine for apprentices of the graphic trade.
Students have to design a website for a historical figure (maybe from a list provided by the instructor).
Example carried out in 2021 by student Messaline Piette at Eracom, Lausanne:
A brief proposed by Frederik Mahler-Andersen : students have to create an Instagram Story, as a series of short animations (combining video, image, text). The topic has to be a news article chosen by the student.
An example, carried out over five weeks with a graphic design class at Eracom: https://www.instagram.com/eracom_gr491/
Create a new emoji character. Go through a brainstorming process to come up with useful new emoji types. Design them, in the style of different emoji / OS alphabets (Google, Twitter, OpenMoji…).
Study the emoji submission process:
https://unicode.org/emoji/proposals.html
Get inspired by actual emoji proposals : https://www.unicode.org/emoji/charts/emoji-proposals.html
Get inspired by the OpenMoji styleguide:
https://openmoji.org/styleguide/
Related reading:
Ellen Lupton, Design is Storytelling, p. 100.
Jennifer Daniel (March 23 2020), Talk to Me: The Evolution of Emoji, Google Design