FA27 Digital Design Professor Tom Klinkowstein fatik@hofstra.edu https://fa27fall2019.home.blog/ Assignment Three Team Presentation The task of the team presentation is to uncover and present a new aspect, component, application, etc. of design pertaining to a democratic, civil and entrepreneurial society.

You will present as a team, but within that presentation make individual design proposals. The presentation will be done, Pecha Kucha style (each slide will be on the screen for 15 seconds). You will use Photoshop to create a visual relating to your design proposal called, a Visual Proposal Pointer. The final result will be a slide presentation, delivered to the class which includes an idea that sits between and/or is related to various origins, in this case, the assigned reading, plus another design reference you find that meets the criteria for a legitimate source (see the Legitimate Sources doc. on the course blog). The concept you present should not be obvious in that what you propose is not commonly known to this class or by you or your peers. Do not take ideas directly from films / videos, etc. for instance. This is an assignment that marries critical thinking, research and visual design. Your team’s presentation will consist of “talking point” slides (slides you speak from but do not read word for word), and proposals, composed of multiple slides, one proposal per student in your team that connects design to an historic American document. -- Working together successfully as a team is a significant goal of this assignment.

Teams and Reading for Each Team: Team 1 http://sidebar.io/ https://www.nytimes.com/section/technology -The Declaration of Independence

-- Team 2 http://eyeondesign.aiga.org/ http://techcrunch.com/ -The Four Freedoms, Franklin Delano Roosevelt

--

Team 3 http://www.debbiemillman.com/ www.core77.com -President Kennedy’s Inaugural speech

-- Team 4 http://designobserver.com/ http://boingboing.net/

-Eleanor Roosevelt’s Struggle for Human Rights speech

--

Team 5 http://techcrunch.com/ http://setgodin.typepad.com -The U.S. Constitution

-- Procedure Select key words, phrases or ideas from your team’s historical document. One per team member. Select an article from the listed design sites for your team that may relate to your selected key words, phrases or ideas from your team’s historical document. One article per team member. For each team member, find an additional legitimate source that further connects the idea from the historical document -- Make a common team slide motif that includes all the team member’s names as well as the name of the assigned historic document on each slide. All members of the team must present. --

Example: 1) Concept from the foundational document, the Declaration of Independence in this example: “…the pursuit of happiness… 2) Related article from the assigned reading: https://www.nytimes.com/section/technology (New York Times technology site), regarding happiness and technology:

3) Additional legitimate source regarding happiness as defined by designer Stephan Sagmeister in a TED Talk, regarding embedding happy signals into the built environment:

4) Example proposal text:

“Tax-funded construction authorities (those that are responsible for bridges, highways, public transit, public museums, etc.), become required to submit proposals as to how fullfillment and happiness will be embedded into the design of new construction.” 5) Example Visual Proposal Pointer: Combine two existing images using opacity adjustment in Photoshop to create one suggestive Visual Proposal Pointer per team member (so, if you have four people in your team, you would have four Visual Proposal Pointers). A suggestive visual proposal pointer “connotes” an idea (in my example, ‘Civil Architecture Happiness’) but does not factually or in detail illustrate it. It points in the direction of an idea without deeply specifying it.

Use one photo (relatively unknown—independent film stills are a good source, no graphics, logos, cartoons, paitings, drawings or llustrations), which you find on the Internet, plus one photo you make (or have already made). Add a two to four word header to the combined image in an appropriate font (start with the recommended font list and experiment beyond that as needed). Example (made by combining an internet image of an architectural detail and a self-made photo, and using Photoshop opacity, layers and image adjustment):

--

Slides to make: Each proposal needs to have these slides (below). There will be one proposal per team member in each team, so if you have four team members, there will be four proposals that connect design to an idea from the historic document and present a new design-related proposal: 1) the selected word, phrase or idea from the historic documentt 2) the selected design article screen shot and short text excerpt (one or two slides) 3) the additional reference from a legitimate source including screen shot and text excerpt (one or two slides) 4) the proposal itself in text form, 25 words or less

5) the suggestive Visual Proposal Pointer -- Have the entire presentation run ‘Pecha Kucha’ style (15 seconds per slide where the slides change automatically).