This Box Hits Too Close to Home is a speculative, participatory toolkit developed to aid diaspora populations come to terms with confusing feelings toward their "fractured" cultural background.
Using my own upbringing as a research starting point, this BA Graphic Design graduation project implements interdisciplinary ways of working to broaden the target audience beyond the immediate one in my university.
Conceptual, archival website building, graphic representation, data design, creative writing, physical kit-making, silk-screen printing, laser-etching, bookbinding, exhibition design, and participatory design define the overall endeavour, among other production techniques.
Graphic reinterpretations of mind-maps showing the evolution of this project and its focus points. Done to convey both topic and the emotional positioning toward it without having to extensively explain it.
A website doubling as the archive for all of the relevant material included in the conceptualization of this project.
Three vertical columns - SOURCE, REFLECTION, and RESULT, each individually scrollable, allow for unique combinations of inspiration to be made.
The target audience for this project is one that will continue to grow due to the effects of globalization.
The kit design invites viewers to wonder whether they fall into that demographic through a short prompt at the bottom of the kit.
The designs throughout this project are purposefully vague, depicting objects, moments, and abstract shapes of cultural significance.
This echoes the various forms nostalgia tends to be found in and applied to.
Ideally, working with this kit would take up to a year, the result being a rollable box made up of 7 segments filled with items of cultural significance.
"In a world of endless digital distraction", this project set out to create a physical museum of personal cultural context.
… Too Close to Home
PRODUCT DESIGN, INTERDISCIPLINARY DESIGN, CREATIVE WRITING
