Constructing the presentation, through the use of materiality

 I was always going to use some form of hand rendered design to construct the presentation because of what the project was! I just didn't quite know what that element was going to be or how it was going to look. Following on from the watermark design I wanted to create something along those sorts of lines, communicating throughout the presentation that it was about inclusion but in a way that didn't take away from the information on the slides.

I started with ink, edited and randomly placed within the space with a low capacity:




Just didn't quite feel right to have such an intense font alongside an laready quite intense background, in terms of the solid lines of the words. However, using a softer font took away from the legibility so it was clear there needed to be a more even ratio of hand rendered to digitial...


Watercolour! Softer lines and softer colour without editing, I just didn't know exactly where to go with it.

At the time, I was planning the content of each slide and what to prioritse, in the same way I had throughout the project - postit notes! Made sense to carry on with postit notes for the title of each slide, to gain consitency in a hand rendered sense...


Just like that, it worked well instantly, with a really nice visual aesthic and an even ratio between hand rendered and digital.


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