Immersion T3 - Sign Design W/ Liz

The first session of this immersion was on Thursday last week (7.9.17). I missed this session sadly because I was at SPINS for almost half of the day so I spent most of my day at the high school. This session didn't seem to matter that much though because all they did was take photos of sings around the high school.

I did get to go to the second session though which was this week on Monday (11.9.17). All we did was sit in groups of about 5 around a table and then wrote on post-it notes our comments on those pictures of signs from the high school that they took on Thursday (7.9.17).

On the third session we were suppose to play around with photo shopping on the mac laptops but most of the computers didn't even have the application. So to fill in time we walked around the school and took photos of areas of the school that have blank spaces where signs could go. So after we tried the online site called Wordle which helps you create word signs well out of words by just pasting a whole lot of words into a box and then it processes and turns it into a sign. But this site didn't work either... so we tried another site called Word Cloud and finally it works! We had to paste words about the school into a word box and then the website generates it into a design made out of words. We played around with that for a bit, playing with different colours, sizes, shapes etc. After the student teacher Emma showed us a video about sign characters coming to life and telling a story. So after that Emma gave us all a printed out sign of people walking to school and on the back we had to change the look of the sign by tracing on the back and change what they look like and what they are carrying. Maya and I paired up for this drawing project and we designed two people going shopping.