Starting at 15:30 after PPP session, don't have much time again today so working like yesterday will be good. Could think about what peggy said in terms of using the twitter algorithm to develop visuals.
- 20 min research
- 20 min gather content
- 20 min ideas
- 1 hour making
Trending Topics:
- #WomenInScience
- Taylor
- #OhPollyBeMyGalentine
- #WomenInSTEM
- #PAKvSA
- #boohooMANxLilDurk
- Modric
- Libby Squire
- APRIL NINTH
- Rizwan
Tweets:
- @UN_WomenMillions of women in the health and social sector work tirelessly everyday to care for all of us.On International Day of Women and Girls in Science, we thank you.
- @FLOTUSOn #WomenInScience Day, I'm thinking of Dr. Mae Jemison - the first Black woman in space. She pushes us to believe we are capable of more than we know: "I had to learn very early not to limit myself due to other' limited imaginations."
- @Dr2NisreeMyth: women 'choose' not to put themselves forward for jobs, promotions & upward opportunities. It's a confidence problem.Truth: the system actively discourages & obstructs women from doing so. It's a stereotype, structure & a status quo problem.
- @NorbertElekesFemale graduates in science, technology, engineering and math:IND: 43%RSA: 43%UAE: 42%ITA: 40%GBR: 38%BRA: 37%IDN: 37%SWE: 36%TUR: 35%USA: 34%CAN: 31%MEX: 31%ESP: 30%GER: 28%KOR: 25%
- @UNESCOThe World needs science and science needs women.
- @NobelPrizeWhat do you want to discover?Nobel Laureate @francesarnold conducted the first directed evolution of enzymes.Today uses of those enzymes include more environmentally friendly manufacturing chemical and the production of renewable fuels.
- @newscientistNobel prize-winning geneticist Barbra McClintock's research on heredity in maise in 1940s and 50s pre empted by decades the discovery of "jumping genes" in bacteria.
- @NobelPrize"I was captured for life by chemistry and by crystals." Nobel Laureate Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin was one of the most outstanding X-ray crystallographers of her time. She determined the structure of penicillin and vitamin B12, and the 3D structure of insulin
- @astro_timpeakeToday is #WomenInScienceDay & a chance to encourage females to take up careers in #STEM. @esa are looking for female scientists, engineers & pilots for their next selection process Application site opens on March 31st
- @newscientistRosalind Franklin is known for making a significant contribution to the discovery of the DNA double helix. Her story has become famous as one of a woman whose scientific work was overlooked during her lifetime.
- @lauramarieyoungJust me being a scientist. Forever grateful to be doing a job I love.
- @FrancescaGasp15Listening to the sound of molecules
- @EmmanigmaI'm an astrophysicist and science communicator working to make physics accessible to everyone.
Images:
Ideas:
History and Present
- There seem to be figures from the past and then figures from now who are working in the STEM field.
- Could maybe use this idea of past present within the zine, showcasing the differences within the design (black and white vs colour, serif vs sans serif etc).
There are many publications dedicated to talking about women in science, these tend to be based heavily in illustration.
- Could take a different route more digital but with hand drawn elements.
Who's the audience? What do I want to communicate?
- Want it to feel accessible, showcase the content but not in a way that seems condescending or patronising.
- Don't want to make the mistake of going down the route of taking the content and pulling ideas from it too much, since the risk is developing something 'feminine' just because it's about women.
Mindmap:
- I feel like recording and documenting could be an interesting way to go with this.
- Run with themes of archiving, referencing, academic visuals.
Archives:
- Social media is being used more and more as a way to document and archive.
- All images in zine could be a square?
Designers Against Coronavirus
Originally an instagram now a publication.It called out to artists for their “personal visual interpretation of the current Coronavirus crisis”. The book features 272 works, 17 interviews with internationally known creatives, two short introductory essays and a foreword by Francesco Rocca, president of the Italian Red Cross.
- Again stemming from instagram as an archive.
- Layout is contemporary and interesting with the different layouts.
- Details like page numbering are appropriate for easy navigation around the book and finding different artists as there are so many.
- The spreads also help showcase the work with appropriate thought about what is placed where in terms of sizing and colour.
- Show an insight to some of the creative featured but not all to keep the content lighter.
OK-RM Sorted, Resorted: http://www.ok-rm.co.uk/project/sorted-resorted
is a book designed to accompany the exhibition of the same name presented at Wiels, Brussels. The exhibition adopts material as its organising principle. It underlines the importance of sorting as a recurring thread in Kuri’s practice and then resorts his works into four categories: paper, plastic, metal, and construction materials. The book design extends the concept of the exhibition, acting as both an ultra functional catalogue and an interpretive conceptual tool.
- This publication has a way of organising lots of information into different sections based on material.
- I've got content of women in science and could organise chronologically.
- Text is small and uses a referencing system, tends to keep imagery separate from text and have large portions of text on beginning and end pages.
- Think about this when designing, it's quite different to previous publication.
- Thinking about different arrangements, could use the twitter algorithm idea suggested by peggy to get more imagery as currently there are few images of the women from now as they're off of twitter. Don't want to go and find more current scientists as I like the authenticity of showcasing women who may not have made life changing discoveries in the book to.
What to do now?
- Organise the women chronologically
- Find all imagery and text to use.
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Dr. Mae Jemison
an American engineer, physician, and former NASA astronaut. She became the first black woman to travel into space when she served as a mission specialist aboard the Space Shuttle Endeavour.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mae_Jemison
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| Jemison during Space Shuttle mission STS-47 |
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| Jemison aboard the Spacelab Japan module on Endeavour |
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| Jemison at the Kennedy Space Center in 1992 |
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Frances Arnold
https://www.nobelprize.org/womenwhochangedscience/stories/frances-arnold
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| Frances Arnold receives the Nobel Prize from King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden. Photo: © Nobel Media AB 2018; photo: Alexander Mahmoud. |
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| Frances Arnold on a 1956 Motoguzzi 500, which she rode from Milan to Istanbul and back |
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| Frances Arnold at her bench in the early 1980s, at UC Berkeley (grad school), USA |
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| SynBioBeta conference 2019 |
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| Frances Arnold in Italy, 1977. She took a year off from college to live in Italy, where she got a job in a factory that made parts for nuclear reactors. |
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Barbra McClintock:
https://www.nobelprize.org/womenwhochangedscience/stories/barbara-mcclintock
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara_McClintock
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| Barbara McClintock shown in her laboratory |
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| McClintock giving her Nobel Lecture |
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| McClintock family, from left to right: Mignon, Tom, Barbara, Marjorie and Sara (at the piano) |
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| Barbara McClintock in 1923, when she received her bachelor's degree from Cornell University |
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| Barbara McClintock inspecting one of her cornfields at Cold Spring Harbor |
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Dorothy Crowfoot
https://blog.sciencemuseum.org.uk/happy-birthday-dorothy-hodgkin/
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| Dorothy Hodgkin in her laboratory, 1964. |
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| Dorothy Hodgkin assembling a molecular model. |
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| Dorothy Hodgkin in her Oxford lab, 1965 |
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Rosalind Franklin
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2015/jun/23/sexism-in-science-did-watson-and-crick-really-steal-rosalind-franklins-data
https://www.marinij.com/2020/08/12/debunking-the-myth-of-rosalind-franklin-as-feminist-icon/
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| Rosalind Franklin in 1950. She, like Crick, had realised that DNA had a double helix structure. Photograph: Vittoria Luzzati/NPG |
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| Rosalind Franklin's "photograph 51" of the B form of DNA, showing the molecule's telltale X-shaped pattern |
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| Rosalind Franklin. (Personal collection of Jenifer Glynn/Henry Grant Archive/Museum of London) |
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| Rosalind Franklin's lab at Birkbeck College was on the fifth floor of a bomb-damaged 18th-century townhouse, in the former maid's quarters. |
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@lauramarieyoung
Biomedical scientist, Wales
Biomedical Scientist in Bacteriology at Public Health Wales.
Education has included both Undergraduate and Postgraduate studies in Biomedical Science.
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@FrancescaGasp15
Francesca Gasparin
Today I am glad to present our powerful microscopy system for studying label free metabolic process in living cells at #emc2020.
PhD Student at Helmholtz Zentrum München - Institute of Biological and Medical Imaging
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@Emmanigma
Dr Emma Osborne
Astrophysicist
https://www.emmalouiseosborne.com/about.html
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| Submitted my PhD thesis |
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| I’m an astrophysicist and science communicator working to make physics accessible to everyone |
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DESIGN:
- Using the idea of archives and referencing.
- Organised images into a grid with letters corresponding to the text, needs more space between lines so they don't read together but instead as individual captions.
- Organised images into a grid with letters corresponding to the text, needs more space between lines so they don't read together but instead as individual captions.
- Works better here.
- Needs a title (name of scientist)
- Needs a title (name of scientist)
- Added title to the imagery page and reconfigured images to make it fit.
- Doesn't seem right on this page, as there is body text on the right hand page your eye is naturally drawn to the top of this page first for more information.
- Move name to this side.
- What about text? Need to introduce a hierarchy between referencing letters and their captions.
- Doesn't seem right on this page, as there is body text on the right hand page your eye is naturally drawn to the top of this page first for more information.
- Move name to this side.
- What about text? Need to introduce a hierarchy between referencing letters and their captions.
- Italic referencing letter, regular captions
- Referencing letter above captions
- Bold, italic referencing letter, regular captions
- Bold referencing letter, italic captions.
The italic referencing letter with regular caption text is the best.
- It differentiates between the two without making one more important than the other (this is what happens with bold).
- Use this throughout book.
- It differentiates between the two without making one more important than the other (this is what happens with bold).
- Use this throughout book.
- Moved the title, works much better, the eye naturally falls onto this spot of the page (works with the F scanning method)
- More text about the scientists helps add more context allowing the reader to learn and understand more about these women.
- Feel as though this works really well as the imagery is a mix of personal and professional aspects of these women's lives the text about their work adds to the balance.
- Added in the tweet, but this didn't match or feel appropriate, want them to exist in the book but in a place that makes sense.
- Feel as though this works really well as the imagery is a mix of personal and professional aspects of these women's lives the text about their work adds to the balance.
- Added in the tweet, but this didn't match or feel appropriate, want them to exist in the book but in a place that makes sense.
- Moved the tweet text to be part of the referencing text, think this works better.
- Adding in other text, pulling quotes but not wanting to overcrowd the design.
- Could maybe make the quote the focus?
- Could maybe make the quote the focus?
- Larger quote text in a different orientation. It just looks a little odd on the page, doesn't fit work match, feels like it's overpowering.
- Thinking the organised imagery layout wasn't working, it could do with being made more contemporary and exciting to look at.
- Experimenting with peggy suggestion of zoom ins related to the Twitter algorithm. But I don't think that's the best thing to for this, I want to showcase all the different elements of these women and not zoom in on one aspect.
- Could use this more disorganised layout instead of the rigid grid to arrange the images.
- Could use this more disorganised layout instead of the rigid grid to arrange the images.
- This looks much more exciting.
- Could introduce colour that's appropriate to the content.
- Could introduce colour that's appropriate to the content.
- Using green from women in science website, feel like it's slightly too light on the page but I really like the effect, it unionises the imagery.
- Like the blue, there's more range in the images with this colour.
Arrangement of pages (in colour):
In black and white:
- Too dull, makes the content look more boring and tedious.
- To have a consistency could make the colours the blue tone that's in previous experiment, would make them look more cohesive but not be too typical.
- Also need to add more pages as there are currently 10 (inc back and front) so need to have 12 so it can be bound. Add in page numbers and contents page.
In blue:
- Really like the blue, think it makes for a more contemporary zine, could experiment more with where the color could be used.
- The black text looks a little odd with the blue imagery, not bad but a sense of disconnect.
- The black text looks a little odd with the blue imagery, not bad but a sense of disconnect.
- Talking to peers, mixed feelings.
- Some like the white text on blue background, think this will look better when printed. But the blue text on white background looks better on screen.
- Print these both and decide on outcome after.
Thinking back to the cropped zoom ins:
- Like the idea as it links to microscopes, this idea of investigating and searching.
- The squares also have a relation to the idea of instagram as an archive since many examples in my research existed on instagram before a publication.
- You don't get as much content with these, you miss other elements of their life as you only see one image.
^A
^B
^C
Experimenting with layouts in A, B and C
There was too much a difference between the the neat and messy layouts, think the original is much better, is easy to read, your eye is directed to the right pages on the text, it has a flow to the text.
There was too much a difference between the the neat and messy layouts, think the original is much better, is easy to read, your eye is directed to the right pages on the text, it has a flow to the text.
Final Book:
Reflections:
Found working on this book exciting but channeling, trying to present women in science in an appropriate way that doesn't become condescending, patronising or inadvertently sexist from a designers perspective.- But feel like I've succeed with this zine, it has a sense of being contemporary despite displaying historic figures.
- The design of it isn't typical of a book that's showcasing women in science, it isn't an illustrative direction a more graphic one.
- The design of it isn't typical of a book that's showcasing women in science, it isn't an illustrative direction a more graphic one.
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