Assignment 11
Something for Someone

Design something for someone. In particular, a loved one, a family member, a dear friend, or enemy. The medium is up to you: it could be a book, zine, poster, record, mix tape, poem, typeface, video, photo album, lecture, or something else.

This is a three week assignment. By the end of week three, make arrangements to send the thing you made to the person.




The goal is to use your person as a catalyst for subject matter and content. What are they interested in? What do you want to tell them? How should you visualize that? Investigate the person, and understand the tools you have as a graphic designer to organize and manipulate information.

Learning Outcomes: Process, ideation, audience, message and receiver.

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Background

Watch the above lecture by Bob Gill. Bob Gill (b. Brooklyn, New York, January 17, 1931) was an American illustrator and graphic designer. April Fool’s Day, 1962, Gill, Alan Fletcher and Colin Forbes established Fletcher/Forbes/Gill design studio, the forerunner of Pentagram. In 1967, Gill left the partnership and assumed independent freelancing again, including teaching, filmmaking and writing children’s books.

This has been adapted from an assignment given by Pablo Delcan at the School of Visual Arts. Thank you.