Process

This project took a lot of time to develop. Finding the subject matter I wanted to work with was definitely the most time-consuming component of the process. At first, I wanted to work alongside another project and create something that could be placed somewhere near another project, almost responding to it. However, after discussing these options during my desk crits, I realized that I did not truly want to respond to another project, but to something that was already there in place in the library. I then walked around the library for a while, taking pictures of interesting possible locations that I could work with (posted below). There were many options, but the elevator sign stood out because of the number of ways I could work with it. I then began developing ideas for how I could work with the sign, and what backgrounds I would create. After brainstorming and deciding on a few ideas, I instantly dove in, importing the images into Pixlr's web application, and adding layers over top to create the new signs. At first the signs were very complicated and had many colors, but I did not like those and instead started working on simplistic versions that had the same style as the original elevator, with the same background and foreground schemes. I also tried animating the signs by creating many different frames of each and then cycling through the frames quickly, but the animations did not quite work the way I intended, and I was too short on time to get them to work properly. Once I finalized the signs, I added them to a slideshow, set a timer for each one, and projected them onto the original sign, using Millumin for alignment.