Annie Leue

How will knowledge pass through this moment in time? This studio course takes up the `publication' as an epistemological framework and set of design principles spanning print and new media. Teams of students reimagine the structures and inflections of existing experimental books, manuals, catalogues, archives, and museum collections, creating app-based interactive incarnations. Students will design and prototype using contemporary tools, such as Adobe XD and Principle. While designing, beta-testing and presenting for phone and tablet, the class will focus on the conceptual parallels, analogues, and tensions between print and new media design as to aesthetics, structural possibilities, inspiration, and context.

Students are given lists of material to reimagine, including: experimental books such as An Anecdoted Topography of Chance or Jung?s Red Book; reference manuals such as How to Keep Your Volkswagen Alive; archives such as Art and Architecture magazine; and artifacts such as the Rosetta Stone or Nutshell Studies. This course also asks students to analyze and present to the class a variety of apps and websites from publishers like Touchpress, Tender Claws, Washington Post and the national parks service.

Students will work in teams of three to concept, design, produce and present two interactive app prototypes for touch tablet. Students will also analyze existing apps and present their findings.