Perspectives @ Haro Park
Team Project at Emily Carr University with the Health Design Lab
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Isabella Beom, Paula Burbano, Yuhyun Hwang, Amber Ko
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January - April 2020
4 months
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Layout & Publication Design
Art Direction
Participatory Design
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Procreate, Photoshop, InDesign
Storytelling in Dementia.
As part of the Perspectives Program at ECUAD, four residents of Haro Park in the West End, three student team members and myself collaborated and connected with storytelling through creative activities. With the nature of dementia, stories would be best kept when on a designed piece of memento.
Involving co-writing, co-designing, and co-producing a publication, it features the resident stories, writing, photography, and art. The project was originally meant to be printed in risograph, bound, and packaged to share, but part of the design process and physical production was cut short due to the risks of the COVID-19 pandemic. Nonetheless, the students restructured the publication project through designing each of our own visual essays, using our own style and design, with the same stories shared and told by our residents.
The Concept
For the overall project, we thought up of a mailbox concept, formatting all our stories and findings into print and items that you’d find in someone’s mailbox. Examples would have included letters, wedding invites, postcards, printed ads and ephemera, and newspapers as one of our residents especially loved journalism. To keep the publication simple and true to the risograph machine system, I settled for a duotone file, with one colour as the background/paper, and the other as the ink colour.
The Design
Although the stories shared by our residents were in the past, I wanted to give the digital publication a clean and modern feel by using the following typefaces. To juxtapose the newness of the fonts, I added some vintage and grungy elements by incorporating mailing stamps to go along with my concept of the project.
