Assignment 10
Signs & Symbols — Voyager Record

WEEK II
Design your voyager record packaging: Your slipcase’s front cover, back cover, and spine as well as your 3 sleeves front covers and back covers. Print all of your work at 8x8". Remember, you are designing a 3xLP Box Set package.






The Voyager Golden Records are two phonograph records that were included aboard both Voyager spacecrafts launched in 1977. The records contain sounds and images selected to portray the diversity of life and culture on Earth, and are intended for any intelligent extraterrestrial life form who may find them. The Voyager Records are now 46 years old, still sailing across the universe awaiting to come in contact with another lifeform in outer space.
Understanding the this project is meant to be a time capsule explaining the human condition, what would the record look like today? Create your own Voyager Record by selecting 50 images and 12 audio tracks, and designing your own Pioneer Plaque and Playback Diagram. Design this as a 3xLP Box Set package. Design a slipcase, three record sleeves and booklet using your selected images and track listing.

DELIVERABLES
—Pioneer Plaque Diagram
—Playback Diagram
—Record Packaging
 • 12¾x12¾" Slipcase Front Cover
 • 12¾x12¾" Slipcase Back Cover
 • 12½x12½" Record Sleeves ×3
 • 12½x12½" 16pg Booklet including 50 images




Background
Icons are different than letterforms. An alphabet is a writing system where glyphs stand for sounds in a spoken language. Understand that icons represent something less abstract as a glyph, they have inhernt meaning. In class we discussed the fundamentals of icon design. We will use these terms to evaluate your icons.

Concept—A concept is an abstract idea representing the type and fundamental characteristics of some set of objects. In terms of graphic iconography the concept is what you need to communicate to the user.

Symbol—A symbol is a mark, sign, or word that indicates, signifies, or is understood as representing an idea, object, or relationship.

Style—Style is considered the visual details in which an icon is rendered. This can be fill style, line weight, round corners, color, size, etc.

System—A system is the consistent details that carry from one icon to the next. How are the stylistic details executed across the set, and what is the underlying grid or scale relationship the icons follow.









1. Full Icon Set for Cisco by Iconwerk Link
2. Material Design Icon Grid Link
3. How to Design an Icon Set: Simple Checklist for Graphic Designers Link





Pioneer Plaque


Playback Diagram