After my one-on-one meeting and the feedback I received from my midterm critique, I am choosing to focus my first prototype on a paper form. I will be testing this in class next week and will be seeing what reactions I get from folks. My main goals with this are to push myself to take some risks while remaining sensitive and accessible with the information I choose to include. I am doing this through the creation of a Zine (potentially coupled with an infographic-type poster). I want to push the traditional boundaries of a brochure type informational paper, while still being informational.
There were multiple social justice zines that I explored before starting this project. Two of my main inspirations are below. I think they do a great job at representing serious information in an interesting way, even though neither of them has quite as much information as I feel like I need to include in my own iteration. They also do a good job at including hand-drawn and sketched visuals that feels personal and engaging.
Censorship_in_the_U.S.A._Zine_by_JW.pdf
I started with some quick sketching of the zine layout in Procreate, laying out the borders to potentially help me decide how much information I could and should include in this prototype. I quickly decided that the traditional zine that is a single folded piece of paper would be much too small for everything I needed to include and moved to a bigger format.
Once I fixed my scale, I then started to sketch how I wanted this all to look. This draft was the place for dragging, dropping, notes, and quick ideation before formatting things and really getting it all into place.
This was my result just before adding some sketched portions. I wanted to most important aspects to be completely legible, so I left them as typed text. I think this was also helpful in organizing my sections and how I needed to have each page set up. The sketched portions added on would help with color, notes, and bring it all together like I had it in my ideation sketch.