For Day 2, I continued my illustrations for my topic, “How email affects climate change,” and drew the layout of a junk email I received today to see how long it would take to find the “Unsubscribe” button. While drawing out the layout of the email, I felt how long it look to actually reach the end, where the “Unsubscribe” button was accessible. It shows how companies want to make it as inconvenient as possible to actually unsubscribe to their emails.
The hand-drawn quality of your emails/junk mail transforms the ubiquitous interaction into a both design considerations and an action which sublimates the original format.
For your project research: The specificity of email’s impact on the environment allows for an investigation into the systems of digital waste.