Creative Display 2:

Present the Draft Design of Creative Elements for the final project. This is your artistic design creation/response/visualization to your research thus far on the artist and science focus of your choice. Visual sampling (mock ups, sketches, storyboards, etc.) must be included. Though this is a draft of your work, it should give everyone in the class a clear idea of your purpose and overall visualization engagement for the project.

This Creative Display 2 is also a culmination of Reports 1-3 and the Creative Display 1.

The goal of this project is to produce a final draft form of your final visualization, your own rendering of your research about the artist and his/her approach to scientific imagery and exhibition. Again, as with your Creative Display 1, this should not be a reiteration (re-visioning, reworking, etc.) of the artist’s work or the science involved, which will allow you (as an exhibition designer/artist) to go beyond a personal experiencing, understanding, critiquing, and interpreting images to rendering, creating, visualizing, and producing your own visualizations for others to better understand your chosen artist’s work and themes.

Steps:

1. Produce a creative work, i.e. a website, poster, PDF, interactive analysis, chart, map, live performance, sculpture, painting, video, or word document of artistic science exhibition about the artist and his/her work. Your creative display should introduce any person encountering it to the concepts you are covering, show how you chose to analyze and critique the artist and science topic you select, and draw conclusions about the artist and science involved. This should be an original work, by you, that illustrates the concepts involved in your selections. It might illustrate the artist(s), science, your experience of the work, questions for audience members, suggestions for future artistic approaches, research, related visualizations/artists and so on. The project should have a clearly guided purpose.
2. Include a statement in the outline that clearly tells us:
   • “The purpose of my creative project is……..”
   • “The questions that my creative project addresses about the social problem involved are….”
   • “The questions that my creative project answers about my selected area of scientific study and the artist involved are….”
   • “The visual impact I hope my creative project has is…”
   • “I hope other people will learn from or do because of this display ….”
3. A brief outline of next steps and timeline you will need to complete the project in a professional, finalized way for public display.
4. In terms of display, the most minimal form of this project would be a few visualizations followed by pages of text written in a clear manner helping another person understand how to read the visualization (this is C or lower level work). Ideally, the project will be more interactive, probing, and engaging in creative, artistic ways to make the science, research, and artistry involved come to life (A & B level work). Follow the “General Design Considerations” outlined below.

General Design Considerations (from U-British Columbia, Media Group, “Digital Printing: Poster Guidelines“)

• Be Organized. Be Visually appealing.
• Organize and define flow of content in sections by columns or rows.
• Balance text with graphics – less is more.
• Use white space effectively – avoid crowding content.
• Use standard fonts. Suggested fonts: Times, Arial, Helvetica,
• Create a pleasing contrast between text and background colors. Black or dark text generally works well on a soft light colored background.
• The title should be large enough to read from four meters away.
• Body text should be easily read from a few feet away.
• Please proof-read (i.e. read aloud, have others read, etc.) and double check all work before printing, submitting, showcasing.