Assignment 01
Instagram Experimentation

Week I —Make an Instagram account. By next class, have 70 posts uploaded.
Your post subject matter should respond to your Oblique Strategies card you pulled in class.
The card is a prompt. Use it as a jumping off point for something greater. At the end of the week, re-name your account and make a profile photo or logo that sums up what you've been making. You'll be using what you make for phase II of this assignment the following week.

Deliverables, 1.22.18
70 Instagram posts
— Your instagram.com/username URL
— Your logo and name for the account (5,000×5,000 .jpg)

Week II —We will review what you’ve made in class, address your card and help build a theme around your content. With our help, you will become an editor of your work. What is successful? What may have failed? Why is something working, and another is not?
Your next project should bring what you’ve done back to the world of “graphic design”. How do you organize the content in a coherent way? How do you take what you’ve done and refine it? What did you discover, and where can it take you next?
Depending on what has been made you will either design a triptych of posters (18×24”), a book of at least 5 spreads (8.5×11” page size, 11×17” spread size), or a video at least 30 seconds long.

Deliverables, 1.29.18
Final Project (pick one final form factor)
— Three 18×24” Posters
— Book of at least 5 spreads, 8.5×11” page size, 11×17” spread size
— Video at least 30 seconds long

Tips
These can be but do not have to be photos.
You can make these on the computer.
They are medium independent, the instagram account is simply a documentation of your making.
The goal would be to make 10 posts a day.
Realize that posts are time stamped.
The goal here is to make things all week, not at the end of the week.
Don’t be overly complicated.
Make things you like.
Don’t get stuck on the final form factor.
Experiment not knowing what the end result will be.
Each post is not expected to be an amazing, beautiful or original idea.
If you’re feeling stuck, turn to more oblique strategies cards.

Jared
Gardning, not architecture

Esther
Humanize something free of error

Xiangyi
Breathe more deeply

Kevin
Reverse

Lan
Go to an extreme, move back to a more comfortable place

Tiantian
The most important thing is the thing most easily forgotten

Colleen
Disciplined self indulgance

Vashti
Towards the insignifigant

Yuqi
Honor the error as a hidden intention

Hannah
Distorting time