My group included 3 VCD students (including myself) and 1 Photography student. We started off by sharing what our majors did and then got into the kind of nitty gritty about individual projects.
When discussing my project I got a lot of great feedback from Bethany who used to nanny and had some really useful insights into driving with children on board and dropping them at schools.
She mentioned the stress of safety and how at primary schools and where there are young children around you have to be super alert as you never know if a kid's gunna run out in front of you and there are so many variable that could go wrong. She also told me about a rule that she'd heard of from family's with lots of children, where when getting out of the car there was a "hand on the car rule" in which all the kids would stand with one hand on the car until the mother was out and ready to go. She mentioned that there is much more to it especially if you're dealing with really young kids and you have to unbuckle them and get out strollers etc and still watch the other young children.
To be honest she made it sound like a nightmare, and that was a super useful insight for me.
I also shared with them some design for good that I had brought along to share which was a beautiful campaign called Comic Sans for Cancer. I had found out a lot about this and I really loved the campaign. The idea that a typeface designers avoid like the plague was celebrating it's 20th anniversary and in doing that was supporting a really good cause. It was great to see design come together with such a worthy cause and such an unexpected cause. And the ways in which designers were responding to their love or hate of comic sans in relation to this subject of cancer was really really cool.
Something really interesting that came out of this was how Comic Sans was designed for a cartoon character and it is not a font commonly used by designers because of it's visual style and connotations. All of the pieces in the exhibition were bright and playful which reflected the lightheartedness of this font.
What blew me away was that Bethany then pulled out her 18+ card and went look at the sub header's type face and it was Comic Sans! We were all shocked that such a proper/legitimate document would use such an inappropriate font. She even mentioned that when she received a letter from them the whole thing was typed in Comic Sans which I find absolutely shocking.
I really enjoyed this first EX-CHANGE interaction and am looking forward to discussing the insights Bethany raised with Hannah.
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