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in collaboration with Felicia Nitzsche

White Smoke has been featured in a beautiful little book that’s all about the font Bodoni. Micha and I chose Bodoni for the project White Smoke last year. Bodini was created in 1798, and we wanted to use it for this project in combination with Monaco, the bitmapped font that came with the Macintosh computer. Bringing these two fonts side by side for the project.

I Love Bodoni is the third volume of ‘I Love Type’ from Viction:ary and TwoPoints.Net

100 limited edition posters designed for Brighton Photo Fringe interim project ‘Open ’11′.

Printed by Victionary Press.

Photos © Cheryl Gallaway 2011

This weekend at Design Jam Brighton I met a bunch of open, interesting and passionate practitioners all keen to tackle the User Experience (UX) challenge that was set. It was a day of intense team work. It took a large part of the morning for the team to understand each others ways of thinking, various approaches and ideas. Together we interpreted the brief and co-created a micro brief. We then defined our ‘user’, and identified a number of ‘scenarios’. The day ended with us proposing the imagined designs for our user and scenario.

My own experience of the Jam was very much about the process and the collaboration. At the start of the day, not all of the team were convinced by my spontaneous and intuitive approach to the brief alongside a dis-regard for the traditional and very bright ‘post it’ note. I introduced a fictional bird to the project that represented a personally designed ‘device’ and a balloon to represent ‘your own data’, by the end of the day we had all learned a lot about each other as designers. Happily, the bird, and what it could represent, the balloon, and how we interact with it, both featured in our presentation. The presentations from all 9 teams were a mix of charming, intelligent and unique interactions with data. Presentations were followed by a lottery, I got lucky and received a book called ‘Designing Social Interfaces’. Then we all went on to the pub for a well deserved beer.

Thanks to all involved for their time, enthusiasm and making it happen. Would I go to another Design Jam? Yes. Definitely. Check out photos of the day and Design Jam Brighton. There is also a Lanyrd page where the different projects presented that day will be documented. I am currently collecting documentation and will be posting documentation for my teams project later this week.

Image by Calliope Georgousi

Through an international open call Brighton Photo Fringe Open 2011 has brought together a diverse group of curators and artists to explore different perspectives on the critical issues emerging from contemporary photographic practice. The curatorial teams were appointed by mentor Charlotte Cotton, Creative Director of the Media Space (a partnership between the Science Museum and the National Media Museum).

Logo Identity

E-Flyer from a series of 3

E-Flyer from a series of 3

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