Abstract

Collection practices involve meticulous organization and structuring of information informed by considerations like discovery and use. Such methods hold lessons for designers who also practice informal ways of structuring and giving meaning to content. In fact, since the mid-nineties, a distinct genre of design books has emerged that is predicated on designers working with collections. This paper explores these relationships by sharing insights from an elective held at Parsons School of Design that was created to allow undergraduate communication design students to learn more about the formal collections-building process. From these lessons, students created their own collections in an aggregated, printed book which afforded them the opportunity to interrogate the structure of descriptive data and the complexities of forming a narrative. The aim is for designers to be able to participate more fully in describing and structuring content for use and, thereby, extend the breadth of their design practice.

摘要

收集实践涉及根据发现和使用等考虑因素对信息进行细致的组织和结构化。这些方法为设计师提供了经验教训，他们也练习非正式的结构化和赋予内容意义的方式。事实上，自 90 年代中期以来，出现了一种独特的设计书籍类型，它以设计师与系列作品为基础。本文通过分享在帕森斯设计学院举办的选修课的见解来探索这些关系，该选修课旨在让通信设计本科生更多地了解正式的收藏构建过程。从这些课程中，学生们在汇总的印刷书中创建了自己的收藏，这使他们有机会询问描述性数据的结构和形成叙事的复杂性。