Collection Project - Revised Template
This week's assignment was to design a dynamic field on which to situate our Museum of Arts & Design collection, with a focus on providing a meaningful way to relate the objects to each other. I continued to refine the template I created last week, focusing on trying to solve the problems I noted with the initial prototype.
To address the issues of easy comparison in both form and content, I redesigned the shape of the cards so that information would not be blocked when cards were held side by side. I also created divisions between each section of the textual content, then color-coded each section to facilitate easy comparison between each piece. I used a spectrum of shades for information that lay on a scale (e.g., year of birth), and using different tones within the same color range for information that was not scalar (e.g., artist's name). I also changed the paper stock to glossy photo paper, in order to better present the objects' physical appearance.
Christian did not consider the use of color in this prototype to be successful, so if I were to design another version of this template, I would probably not use color for the non-scalar elements, as I believe that was the main source of the confusion. I will not, however, be developing this template further, as the next step will be to create a screen-based companion to this physical template--one that will carry through the concept of individual curation detailed in last week's post.