Synthetic Calendars

Here is what the design looks like as of today... this could easily change before the crit on Wednesday, but I want to  give it a few days before coming back to it.

Sketches for Synthetic Calendar

Here are my attempts to merge the analytical design with my intuitive design:

The one I'm going to develop is the one on the right in the bottom sketch page. I imagine it will still need plenty of tweaking, but that is my favorite of the ideas. Merging the two in a way that wasn't a complete mess is hard to do!

Intuitive Calendar Design

Here was the translation of my original sketch to the screen:

And after consulting with Prof Fender and making some readjustments, here's the intuitive calendar as it looks right now:

Obviously it changed a lot from the sketches and the original concept that I came up with!

Sketches for Intuitive Composition

I ended up working with the smaller of the two, because it was a single month and not as unweildy and messy as attempting the full year would have been.

Project 1 Analytical layouts

Here's what they look like so far:

Project 1: Sketches

A few of the ideas I played around with for my analytical calendar design.

The above idea was going to be a folded block of pages which would unfold and adhere to the wall as the days went on... maybe a little bit too three-dimensional for the constraints.

This was a design involving threads connecting each date to its day of the week... too messy!

This seemed like an interesting concept with shading, but it looked awful right away so I stopped working on it. It led me to a different take on the same layout, however:

My favorite of the four ideas, this one still needs a lot of work but it's the one I'll be developing for the project.