Project for graduate course, Visual Culture & Design. Students were challenged to ideate and design icons for a design fiction of their choice. According to Julian Bleecker, “Design fiction is a way of exploring different approaches to making things, probing the material conclusions of your imagination, removing the usual constraints when designing for massive market commercialization — the ones that people in blue shirts and yellow ties call “realistic.” This is a different genre of design. Not realism, but a genre that is forward-looking, beyond incremental and makes an effort to explore new kinds of social interaction rituals.”
Time: 3 weeks
Tools: Illustrator (icons), InDesign (presentation), Figma (prototype)
View Figma prototype here.
Read Design process here.
