http://www.juliannemedia.com Julianne Weiss Tue, 13 Dec 2011 23:48:39 +0000 http://www.juliannemedia.com en http://www.juliannemedia.com/Graphic-Design http://www.juliannemedia.com/following/juliannemedia.com/Graphic-Design Tue, 13 Dec 2011 23:48:39 +0000 Julianne Weiss 2454789 Birds of a Feather Events Logo designs in chronological order for Birds of a Feather Events, a Los Angeles event planning company set to launch in early 2012 <img src="http://payload7.cargocollective.com/1/0/13346/2454789/boaf_logo_enlarged_25.jpg" border="0" width="568" height="375" width_o="568" height_o="375" src_o="http://payload7.cargocollective.com/1/0/13346/2454789/boaf_logo_enlarged_25_o.jpg" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload7.cargocollective.com/1/0/13346/2454789/horiz_water_blush.jpg" border="0" width="670" height="323" width_o="702" height_o="339" src_o="http://payload7.cargocollective.com/1/0/13346/2454789/horiz_water_blush_o.jpg" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload7.cargocollective.com/1/0/13346/2454789/blue.jpg" border="0" width="556" height="310" width_o="556" height_o="310" src_o="http://payload7.cargocollective.com/1/0/13346/2454789/blue_o.jpg" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload7.cargocollective.com/1/0/13346/2454789/opacity_blue.jpg" border="0" width="563" height="322" width_o="563" height_o="322" src_o="http://payload7.cargocollective.com/1/0/13346/2454789/opacity_blue_o.jpg" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload7.cargocollective.com/1/0/13346/2454789/g_background.jpg" border="0" width="584" height="354" width_o="584" height_o="354" src_o="http://payload7.cargocollective.com/1/0/13346/2454789/g_background_o.jpg" align="left" /> Adopted Dawg Logo designed for upcoming U of W sports blog, Adopted Dawg. <img src="http://payload7.cargocollective.com/1/0/13346/2454789/bannerb.jpg" border="0" width="670" height="261" width_o="1145" height_o="447" src_o="http://payload7.cargocollective.com/1/0/13346/2454789/bannerb_o.jpg" align="left" /> Oh Baby Hand drawn logo for the upcoming pilot, Oh Baby. <img src="http://payload7.cargocollective.com/1/0/13346/2454789/lighter_forsite_7.jpg" border="0" width="581" height="354" width_o="581" height_o="354" src_o="http://payload7.cargocollective.com/1/0/13346/2454789/lighter_forsite_7_o.jpg" align="left" /> O'Grady Meyers UX I designed web assets and flash animation for Purina's petcentric.com while working for O'Grady Meyers. <img src="http://payload7.cargocollective.com/1/0/13346/2454789/Screen shot 2012-01-24 at 5.25.24 PM.png" border="0" width="670" height="513" width_o="1035" height_o="793" src_o="http://payload7.cargocollective.com/1/0/13346/2454789/Screen shot 2012-01-24 at 5.25.24 PM_o.png" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload7.cargocollective.com/1/0/13346/2454789/Screen shot 2012-01-24 at 5.06.30 PM.png" border="0" width="670" height="513" width_o="1035" height_o="794" src_o="http://payload7.cargocollective.com/1/0/13346/2454789/Screen shot 2012-01-24 at 5.06.30 PM_o.png" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload7.cargocollective.com/1/0/13346/2454789/Screen shot 2012-01-24 at 4.59.23 PM.png" border="0" width="670" height="514" width_o="1035" height_o="795" src_o="http://payload7.cargocollective.com/1/0/13346/2454789/Screen shot 2012-01-24 at 4.59.23 PM_o.png" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload7.cargocollective.com/1/0/13346/2454789/Screen shot 2012-01-24 at 4.58.08 PM.png" border="0" width="670" height="514" width_o="1035" height_o="795" src_o="http://payload7.cargocollective.com/1/0/13346/2454789/Screen shot 2012-01-24 at 4.58.08 PM_o.png" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload7.cargocollective.com/1/0/13346/2454789/Screen shot 2012-01-24 at 4.57.30 PM.png" border="0" width="670" height="575" width_o="1026" height_o="881" src_o="http://payload7.cargocollective.com/1/0/13346/2454789/Screen shot 2012-01-24 at 4.57.30 PM_o.png" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload7.cargocollective.com/1/0/13346/2454789/Screen shot 2012-01-24 at 5.01.58 PM.png" border="0" width="670" height="372" width_o="1680" height_o="933" src_o="http://payload7.cargocollective.com/1/0/13346/2454789/Screen shot 2012-01-24 at 5.01.58 PM_o.png" align="left" /> Sun Year Long Album art and packaging for Sun Year Long <img src="http://payload7.cargocollective.com/1/0/13346/2454789/stand_frontb.jpg" border="0" width="581" height="431" width_o="581" height_o="431" src_o="http://payload7.cargocollective.com/1/0/13346/2454789/stand_frontb_o.jpg" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload7.cargocollective.com/1/0/13346/2454789/stand_inb.jpg" border="0" width="581" height="431" width_o="581" height_o="431" src_o="http://payload7.cargocollective.com/1/0/13346/2454789/stand_inb_o.jpg" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload7.cargocollective.com/1/0/13346/2454789/open_stand.jpg" border="0" width="581" height="436" width_o="581" height_o="436" src_o="http://payload7.cargocollective.com/1/0/13346/2454789/open_stand_o.jpg" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload7.cargocollective.com/1/0/13346/2454789/open_cover.jpg" border="0" width="581" height="406" width_o="581" height_o="406" src_o="http://payload7.cargocollective.com/1/0/13346/2454789/open_cover_o.jpg" align="left" /> http://www.juliannemedia.com/Impalpable-Descriptivism http://www.juliannemedia.com/following/juliannemedia.com/Impalpable-Descriptivism Sat, 12 Nov 2011 03:01:32 +0000 Julianne Weiss 2293715 <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/13346/2293715/impalp_poster.jpeg" border="0" width="610" height="792" width_o="610" height_o="792" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/13346/2293715/impalp_poster_o.jpeg" align="left" /> Merging technologies from two different eras, Impalpable Descriptivism is a participatory writing system and reactive audio sculpture that performs the printed word as score. It is a text to phone to email to phone to fax to camera to data to noise system. Through the use of a restrained, ubiquitous mobile input method (text messaging), participants are asked to deliver a detailed real space account (the printed facsimile) of something seemingly insignificant, mundane or otherwise difficult to put into words. By asking participants to push beyond the surface and communicate the subject in a more verbose way than is necessary, a narrative-based inquiry develops. As messages traverse the system, their resulting facsimiles are employed in real time as score. This exploration of asynchronous collective performance creates a sound work composed entirely from the sounds and literature of mundane objects and actions. A collaboration with Alex Braidwood http://www.juliannemedia.com/Myriad-Accounts-Thesis-Work http://www.juliannemedia.com/following/juliannemedia.com/Myriad-Accounts-Thesis-Work Sat, 12 Nov 2011 01:46:56 +0000 Julianne Weiss 2293305 Visit my Thesis Website – myriadaccounts.com for full documentation <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/13346/2293305/sm_DSC2326.jpeg" border="0" width="670" height="446" width_o="700" height_o="466" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/13346/2293305/sm_DSC2326_o.jpeg" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/13346/2293305/backtoback.jpeg" border="0" width="670" height="448" width_o="700" height_o="469" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/13346/2293305/backtoback_o.jpeg" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/13346/2293305/_DSC2427bSM.jpeg" border="0" width="670" height="842" width_o="700" height_o="880" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/13346/2293305/_DSC2427bSM_o.jpeg" align="left" /> Photo: Mikey Tnasuttimonkol Myriad Accounts is a functioning real time reading and writing system, designed to illuminate the nuance of language. The system is a fully realized program – a reading, writing and performance interface. As a culmination of my investigations into linguistic variance, the system is built to reposition readers and writers, and to expand the palette of methods with which happenings may be recorded through text. The live demonstration pictured above is a performance of this project, which took place at my graduate thesis exhibition, 4 HOURS SOLID in the ACCD Media Design Program. These are three writers writing simultaneously about their surroundings into the Myriad Accounts system. Their text is being filtered through the program, reformatted and projected in real time on the wall behind them. Each column of text projected corresponds to its writer. The program scans all of these words to find "topics" in the text; when "common topics" are found (meaning more than one writer has written about said topic), the topical phrase is displayed in bold-faced type. This is evidenced in the photographs above, wherein "red hoodie" and "tequila" are common, bold-faced topics. Through the use of HTML, js, node, web sockets, and the Alchemy API's topical analysis, this system has become a fully functioning live publishing platform. <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/13346/2293305/Myriad_flow_input.jpg" border="0" width="576" height="689" width_o="576" height_o="689" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/13346/2293305/Myriad_flow_input_o.jpg" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/13346/2293305/Myriad_flow_output_8.jpg" border="0" width="503" height="731" width_o="503" height_o="731" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/13346/2293305/Myriad_flow_output_8_o.jpg" align="left" /> Wireframe Flowcharts As evidenced in this video, the platform is entirely flexible, portable and scalable to record in any environment. <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/13346/2293305/writer3.png" border="0" width="433" height="476" width_o="433" height_o="476" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/13346/2293305/writer3_o.png" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/13346/2293305/writer2.png" border="0" width="433" height="476" width_o="433" height_o="476" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/13346/2293305/writer2_o.png" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/13346/2293305/writer1.png" border="0" width="433" height="476" width_o="433" height_o="476" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/13346/2293305/writer1_o.png" align="left" /> My design of the Myriad Accounts system was programmed by James Turner, a recent Graduate of the UCLA DMA Program. http://www.juliannemedia.com/User-Experience-LOOK-THINK-WRITE http://www.juliannemedia.com/following/juliannemedia.com/User-Experience-LOOK-THINK-WRITE Tue, 20 Apr 2010 05:04:34 +0000 Julianne Weiss 367132 <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/13346/367132/swatchcoverclose_DSC7702.jpg" border="0" width="670" height="445" width_o="670" height_o="445" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/13346/367132/swatchcoverclose_DSC7702_o.jpg" align="left" /> LOOK THINK WRITE is an authoring system for emerging screenwriters. Through this workspace, writers may incorporate visual, textural and sensory media with script, in the brainstorming process and amongst each other. This is especially useful in a classroom setting, where a group of people must communicate an idea. Inspirational imagery and sensory elements may be exchanged to inform that converation. Furthermore, by giving the screenplay a tangible counterpart, it becomes a more malleable, flexible entity; it can be shaped and molded with ease and intuition. The system has been designed through four devices, which communicate between each other through cloud data technology. - The Writer's Notebook serves as a brainstorming tool and a capturing device. A sheet of e-paper, equipped with a camera, may be inserted into any notebook. From there, the writer's notebook may be used to brainstorm (as it is in the traditional sense), plus it can capture video, audio and stills. - The captured information flows into Blocks. Wooden blocks are the housing unit for collected content and inspirational material. By way of mini, short throw projectors, these blocks can project this information on any surface, anywhere. Each block is meant to house the information for one "beat" (plot point) / character / location. They also sync with the written screenplay for easy editing. The blocks can be rearranged to change the order of actions or arranged side by side to compare material. Data may be shared between blocks and amongst writers. - Snifters are the housing devices for scent. The writer may capture scent at any time and relay that data back to a snifter. When they return to the studio or the classroom, snifters may open to fill the room with the scent of a corresponding location in the film or perhaps the smell of a character's perfume. - A Swatch & Material Book is also present in this new ecology of writing. Textures are given to the writer as a Pantone book may be given to a designer. This book may be added to as well. By collecting textures, the writer may explore an their senses with the immediacy and intuition of textural references. Devices: <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/13346/367132/POSTER3.jpg" border="0" width="445" height="670" width_o="445" height_o="670" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/13346/367132/POSTER3_o.jpg" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/13346/367132/POSTER4.jpg" border="0" width="445" height="670" width_o="445" height_o="670" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/13346/367132/POSTER4_o.jpg" align="left" /> Wireframe for Gesture Flow: <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/13346/367132/look_flow.jpg" border="0" width="588" height="759" width_o="588" height_o="759" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/13346/367132/look_flow_o.jpg" align="left" /> Supporting Material: <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/13346/367132/POSTER1.jpg" border="0" width="445" height="670" width_o="445" height_o="670" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/13346/367132/POSTER1_o.jpg" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/13346/367132/POSTER2.jpg" border="0" width="670" height="445" width_o="670" height_o="445" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/13346/367132/POSTER2_o.jpg" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/13346/367132/POSTER5.jpg" border="0" width="670" height="491" width_o="844" height_o="619" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/13346/367132/POSTER5_o.jpg" align="left" /> Interaction: <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/13346/367132/browse_DSC7675.jpg" border="0" width="670" height="445" width_o="670" height_o="445" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/13346/367132/browse_DSC7675_o.jpg" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/13346/367132/flip_DSC7671.jpg" border="0" width="670" height="445" width_o="670" height_o="445" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/13346/367132/flip_DSC7671_o.jpg" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/13346/367132/point_DSC7664.jpg" border="0" width="670" height="445" width_o="670" height_o="445" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/13346/367132/point_DSC7664_o.jpg" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/13346/367132/soft_lineup_DSC7660.jpg" border="0" width="670" height="445" width_o="670" height_o="445" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/13346/367132/soft_lineup_DSC7660_o.jpg" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/13346/367132/reach_DSC7649.jpg" border="0" width="670" height="445" width_o="670" height_o="445" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/13346/367132/reach_DSC7649_o.jpg" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/13346/367132/straightontubes_DSC7721.jpg" border="0" width="670" height="445" width_o="670" height_o="445" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/13346/367132/straightontubes_DSC7721_o.jpg" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/13346/367132/imgwtext_DSC7696.jpg" border="0" width="670" height="445" width_o="670" height_o="445" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/13346/367132/imgwtext_DSC7696_o.jpg" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/13346/367132/niceimgsdark_DSC7691.jpg" border="0" width="670" height="445" width_o="670" height_o="445" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/13346/367132/niceimgsdark_DSC7691_o.jpg" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/13346/367132/swatchcover_DSC7682.jpg" border="0" width="670" height="445" width_o="670" height_o="445" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/13346/367132/swatchcover_DSC7682_o.jpg" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/13346/367132/blocks_w_book_DSC7680.jpg" border="0" width="670" height="445" width_o="670" height_o="445" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/13346/367132/blocks_w_book_DSC7680_o.jpg" align="left" /> http://www.juliannemedia.com/The-Colors http://www.juliannemedia.com/following/juliannemedia.com/The-Colors Mon, 12 Apr 2010 05:56:02 +0000 Julianne Weiss 354067 Title courtesy of the Sebrasos boys (ages 2 & 4). <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/13346/354067/window_DSC7739.jpg" border="0" width="670" height="445" width_o="670" height_o="445" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/13346/354067/window_DSC7739_o.jpg" align="left" /> This space is a step forward from the Radiant Hut prototype. It is a second exploration into a growing line of inquiry for me as a designer: how to activate space, how to make light tangible. Through a series of experiments with materials form the Colors, Materials & Trends Lab (CMTEL) at Art Center, I am discovering ways in which to create pockets of space for interaction. In this case, the hut is a supporting structure for a hexagonal window. Constructed out of Aluminum Honeycomb, 3M Radiant Light Film and MDF, I built an interface for molding light. The Colors_interaction from Julianne Weiss on Vimeo. <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/13346/354067/bendhair_DSC7774.jpg" border="0" width="670" height="445" width_o="670" height_o="445" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/13346/354067/bendhair_DSC7774_o.jpg" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/13346/354067/bend_DSC7776.jpg" border="0" width="670" height="445" width_o="670" height_o="445" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/13346/354067/bend_DSC7776_o.jpg" align="left" /> By pivoting the window frame or tilting the side panels, the inhabitant of this space is able to increase or decrease visibility to the outside. They may shift and refract the incoming light. Through this interaction, pockets of activated space are created. The Colors_reflection from Julianne Weiss on Vimeo. <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/13346/354067/look_DSC7766.jpg" border="0" width="445" height="670" width_o="445" height_o="670" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/13346/354067/look_DSC7766_o.jpg" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/13346/354067/fullhutpink_DSC7731.jpg" border="0" width="445" height="670" width_o="445" height_o="670" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/13346/354067/fullhutpink_DSC7731_o.jpg" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/13346/354067/fullhutgreen_DSC7730.jpg" border="0" width="445" height="670" width_o="445" height_o="670" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/13346/354067/fullhutgreen_DSC7730_o.jpg" align="left" /> This structure explores the way space can change dynamically with light as the key material. Imagine how varied public space could become by applying this method. Lit corners could invent a new form of housing for intimacy, privacy, play or chance encounters. <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/13346/354067/closecolors_DSC7767.jpg" border="0" width="445" height="670" width_o="445" height_o="670" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/13346/354067/closecolors_DSC7767_o.jpg" align="left" /> Photo credit: Mikey Tnasuttimonkol Build: <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/13346/354067/photo_1.jpg" border="0" width="670" height="502" width_o="800" height_o="600" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/13346/354067/photo_1_o.jpg" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/13346/354067/photo 4.jpg" border="0" width="670" height="502" width_o="800" height_o="600" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/13346/354067/photo 4_o.jpg" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/13346/354067/photo 3_2.jpg" border="0" width="670" height="502" width_o="800" height_o="600" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/13346/354067/photo 3_2_o.jpg" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/13346/354067/photo 2_3.jpg" border="0" width="670" height="502" width_o="800" height_o="600" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/13346/354067/photo 2_3_o.jpg" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/13346/354067/photo.jpg" border="0" width="670" height="502" width_o="800" height_o="600" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/13346/354067/photo_o.jpg" align="left" /> http://www.juliannemedia.com/Radiant-Hut-Prototype-1 http://www.juliannemedia.com/following/juliannemedia.com/Radiant-Hut-Prototype-1 Tue, 23 Mar 2010 18:46:48 +0000 Julianne Weiss 324769 The hut is a study in space, light, materiality and hybrid digital / physical interaction. It is the resulting work from a visit to Art Center's CMTEL (Color, Material & Trends Exploration Laboratory) with Elise Co's Material Worlds Studio. With samples from the lab, I designed a first pass at this Radiant Environment. The space explores an intersection between digital interaction, mechanical gadgetry and re-purposed material. <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/13346/324769/17.jpg" border="0" width="648" height="486" width_o="648" height_o="486" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/13346/324769/17_o.jpg" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/13346/324769/23.JPG" border="0" width="648" height="486" width_o="648" height_o="486" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/13346/324769/23_o.JPG" align="left" /> Lighting System Spotlights shine through 3M Radiant Light Film. A pan and tilt double servo setup with arm attachments holds the film before the light. One arm is fixed while the other moves with the servos to contort the Film. <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/13346/324769/18.jpg" border="0" width="648" height="486" width_o="648" height_o="486" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/13346/324769/18_o.jpg" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/13346/324769/16.jpg" border="0" width="648" height="486" width_o="648" height_o="486" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/13346/324769/16_o.jpg" align="left" /> Hut Structure The hut is constructed out of honeycomb aluminum panels and cardboard (to be replaced in the next pass). The aluminum picks up the glow of the Radiant Light Film as the panels reflect it and refract it through the space. Select panels will have Radiant Light film mounted more closely for an intensified effect. <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/13346/324769/21.jpg" border="0" width="648" height="486" width_o="648" height_o="486" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/13346/324769/21_o.jpg" align="left" /> Control The pan and tilt servos are controlled remotely so the light may change dynamically for those occupying the hut. Sensors are connected to a make controller, which talks to a Flash App. Using the NET Lab Toolkit and AS3, the App responds to sensor inputs. The input communicates with the app to swivel the two servo robots and, in turn, affect the diffused light. Diagram and References <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/13346/324769/diagram_hut_sizev3.jpg" border="0" width="670" height="501" width_o="1016" height_o="760" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/13346/324769/diagram_hut_sizev3_o.jpg" align="left" /> Material Experiments <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/13346/324769/13.jpg" border="0" width="648" height="487" width_o="648" height_o="487" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/13346/324769/13_o.jpg" align="left" /> Process <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/13346/324769/8.JPG" border="0" width="670" height="502" width_o="670" height_o="502" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/13346/324769/8_o.JPG" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/13346/324769/IMG_1719.JPG" border="0" width="648" height="486" width_o="648" height_o="486" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/13346/324769/IMG_1719_o.JPG" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/13346/324769/22.JPG" border="0" width="648" height="486" width_o="648" height_o="486" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/13346/324769/22_o.JPG" align="left" /> http://www.juliannemedia.com/The-Ambient-Reader http://www.juliannemedia.com/following/juliannemedia.com/The-Ambient-Reader Fri, 19 Mar 2010 05:46:17 +0000 Julianne Weiss 318232 The designer's scope of responsibility grows each moment as editing, curating and publishing fall into their hands. While the means for publishing text and / or literature multiply we must also rethink the modes of reading. How, where, and why has the reader come across your body of text? These are questions I have begun to investigate with The Ambient Reader. <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/13346/318232/mIMG_2024.JPG" border="0" width="670" height="502" width_o="2048" height_o="1536" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/13346/318232/mIMG_2024_o.JPG" align="left" /> In order to design a new mode of reading, I undertook a close study of Jorge Luis Borges' Labyrinths: Selected Stories and Other Writings. In reading this collection, I entered the author's intricate universe and, through this experience, chose to focus on the transcendent qualities of reading literature. This project begins to address the ways in which a designer may transport their audience. This demonstration illustrates the intimate literary experience as a reader digests text via a mock slab device. As the reader / user moves through the text, 3 chosen passages activate an ambient shift in the environment. These passages were selected in my process of deep reading, then parsed through my designed XML schema. New Modes of Reading from Julianne Weiss on Vimeo. Each shift in the environment is a response to one pivotal moment in the text where Borges explores themes of Man, Temple & Universe. These are the three statements pictured in the demo: 1. Temple 2. Man 3. Universe <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/13346/318232/Picture 12_22.png" border="0" width="640" height="257" width_o="640" height_o="257" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/13346/318232/Picture 12_22_o.png" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/13346/318232/Picture 13_21.png" border="0" width="640" height="146" width_o="640" height_o="146" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/13346/318232/Picture 13_21_o.png" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/13346/318232/Picture 14_20.png" border="0" width="640" height="130" width_o="640" height_o="130" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/13346/318232/Picture 14_20_o.png" align="left" /> Demo <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/13346/318232/d151_5194sm.jpg" border="0" width="540" height="810" width_o="540" height_o="810" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/13346/318232/d151_5194sm_o.jpg" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/13346/318232/d151_5195sm.jpg" border="0" width="540" height="810" width_o="540" height_o="810" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/13346/318232/d151_5195sm_o.jpg" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/13346/318232/d151_5197sm.jpg" border="0" width="540" height="810" width_o="540" height_o="810" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/13346/318232/d151_5197sm_o.jpg" align="left" /> Mood }<img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/13346/318232/mIMG_2026_sm_33.jpg" border="0" width="540" height="720" width_o="540" height_o="720" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/13346/318232/mIMG_2026_sm_33_o.jpg" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/13346/318232/mIMG_2036_sm_34.jpg" border="0" width="540" height="720" width_o="540" height_o="720" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/13346/318232/mIMG_2036_sm_34_o.jpg" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/13346/318232/mIMG_2030_sm_35.jpg" border="0" width="540" height="720" width_o="540" height_o="720" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/13346/318232/mIMG_2030_sm_35_o.jpg" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/13346/318232/mIMG_2015.JPG" border="0" width="670" height="502" width_o="2048" height_o="1536" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/13346/318232/mIMG_2015_o.JPG" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/13346/318232/mIMG_2001.JPG" border="0" width="670" height="502" width_o="2048" height_o="1536" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/13346/318232/mIMG_2001_o.JPG" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/13346/318232/mIMG_2024.JPG" border="0" width="670" height="502" width_o="2048" height_o="1536" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/13346/318232/mIMG_2024_o.JPG" align="left" /> Schema <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/13346/318232/final_structure2.jpg" border="0" width="670" height="465" width_o="1088" height_o="756" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/13346/318232/final_structure2_o.jpg" align="left" /> Tags: bookend, para, man, temple, universe This schema was created for Borges' text but interesting changes may occur when it is applied to other genres. What happens when you impose emotive inflection to news reporting? Can it be used to cross reference historical texts and like or opposing literature? In the grand scheme of corpus linguistics, creative XML markups and designed outputs could be used to rewrite large bodies of work. Some schemes may drastically rework the text, while others might impose only a gentle inflection (like in my example). Ambient Reading could become an activity of its own - separate to casual or public reading. And, although this scenario demonstrates an individual experience, imagine a scenario in which readers blend and blur ambient shifts in a shared environment. Imagine Ambient Readers capable of tapping into public data clouds, large spaces and buildings. This could be an effective and immersible way of designing space while activating literature. In order to reflect the thematic spheres of universal / mythical / man-made influence present in Borges' story The Circular Ruins, I chose to work with light. Its enveloping qualities and subtle influence on the reader created my new mode of reading. Alternately, some instances may call for olfactory or aural changes. I imagine many more opportunities for designed interjection, especially if they are crafted with a delicate hand. In the end, my intention is not to usurp the command of the author but to add a designed layer of inflection with which to reinterpret the text. Lights ON <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/13346/318232/sIMG_2047.JPG" border="0" width="670" height="502" width_o="2048" height_o="1536" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/13346/318232/sIMG_2047_o.JPG" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/13346/318232/sIMG_2079.JPG" border="0" width="670" height="502" width_o="2048" height_o="1536" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/13346/318232/sIMG_2079_o.JPG" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/13346/318232/sIMG_2087.JPG" border="0" width="670" height="502" width_o="2048" height_o="1536" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/13346/318232/sIMG_2087_o.JPG" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/13346/318232/sIMG_2094.JPG" border="0" width="670" height="502" width_o="2048" height_o="1536" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/13346/318232/sIMG_2094_o.JPG" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/13346/318232/sIMG_2100.JPG" border="0" width="670" height="502" width_o="2048" height_o="1536" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/13346/318232/sIMG_2100_o.JPG" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/13346/318232/sIMG_2104.JPG" border="0" width="670" height="502" width_o="2048" height_o="1536" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/13346/318232/sIMG_2104_o.JPG" align="left" /> http://www.juliannemedia.com/Interactive-City-Guide http://www.juliannemedia.com/following/juliannemedia.com/Interactive-City-Guide Thu, 10 Dec 2009 20:22:43 +0000 Julianne Weiss 183003 <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/13346/183003/05.jpg" border="0" width="670" height="501" width_o="1026" height_o="768" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/13346/183003/05_o.jpg" align="left" /> Interactive Guide In order to design a more intuitive city guide for Los Angeles, I created a Flash site with a natural and flexible navigation system. The Nav tracks the users' history through content and adapts to whichever page and map they land upon. As the nav molds to the users' surroundings, options branch out, expand, contract, grow and adapt to suit the users' needs. http://www.juliannemedia.com/Domus-Magazine-Covers http://www.juliannemedia.com/following/juliannemedia.com/Domus-Magazine-Covers Thu, 10 Dec 2009 20:11:30 +0000 Julianne Weiss 182947 <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/13346/182947/jules_portfolio2.009.jpg" border="0" width="670" height="502" width_o="1024" height_o="768" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/13346/182947/jules_portfolio2.009_o.jpg" align="left" /> These experimental typographic posters were designed for the cover of architecture magazine, Domus. I played with scanned and distorted images to create architecturally influenced type and texture. After 100+ iterations of traditional type covers, these turned out to be my favorite of the bunch. http://www.juliannemedia.com/Glypha http://www.juliannemedia.com/following/juliannemedia.com/Glypha Thu, 10 Dec 2009 20:04:34 +0000 Julianne Weiss 182981 This folding poster design was crafted to commemorate the typeface Glypha. This original Linotype font family was constructed by adding slab serifs to a preexisting typeface: Frutiger. It is because of this that the poster design dissects each letter and inspects its components <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/13346/182981/front_bw3.jpg" border="0" width="670" height="1005" width_o="1728" height_o="2592" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/13346/182981/front_bw3_o.jpg" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/13346/182981/back_bw1.jpg" border="0" width="670" height="1005" width_o="1728" height_o="2592" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/13346/182981/back_bw1_o.jpg" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/13346/182981/front_color4.jpg" border="0" width="670" height="1005" width_o="1728" height_o="2592" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/13346/182981/front_color4_o.jpg" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/13346/182981/back_color2.jpg" border="0" width="670" height="1005" width_o="1728" height_o="2592" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/13346/182981/back_color2_o.jpg" align="left" />