300 word description of my project

Looking and analysing the if/else programming term, I began to understand that a real life metaphor for this particular concept hinged and was essentially focused all around making one, or a series of decisions.

My exhibition piece looks at this concept through my chosen medium of a poster series, which visually tries to capture the catalogue of decisions we have to make in order to reach a final outcome. I chose to look at a ‘decision making topic’ that most people at the design school who would be viewing the exhibition would easily be able to relate to and understand, and that was the subject of looking through the Victoria University course guide book, and having to make the slightly painstaking and labouring decisions on which courses one should take.

I attempted to portray a series of decisions in a way that would appear visually striking and catch the viewers eye, with the poster series coming to a powerful metaphorical climax in terms of decision making that we all had to come to. And that was the challenge of choosing and making the decision of whether we wanted to become industrial, media or culture and context designers.

‘If’ DSDN 104 is chosen for example, that leads to pursuing Industrial Design. ‘Else’, DSDN 142 gets chosen, hence going along the lines of Media Design. A simple coding breakdown of the process.

It’s almost like the layering of decisions, some more important than others, to lead to a final outcome, something that still involves a decision to be made and I felt that this poster series would be a powerful way of showing the if/else coding metaphor in a real life situation.