To create an archive of collected unfinished works, this archive can create new work to turn trash into treasure and to complete the unfinished through a interactive collage, per category of hashtags in the archive.

Hybrid idea of two different outcomes, one online and one in a physical book.
Online you can click on the separate work in the collage to explore it in the archive.
Physical book- ?

Frontpage:
Introduces you to the idea of unfinished work and why it is a positive rather than a negative.

Collage page:
Will show a collage of a randomized collection based on tags and keywords that groups them together.
You can then click to enter the information page about the work

Information page:
Will explain the story behind the work and the medium.

Rolodex idea:

To implement the idea of an archive even further I want to organize the content of the archive into corresponding key words that can also guide the user through the website.

Design Question:

How can I highlight the significance and intrigue of unfinished work by organizing an archive that demonstrates examples and the stories and processes behind those examples?

Generated:

This idea comes from that the works and corresponding tags generate a shape and text relating to the work.

Implements the idea of debris- pulling something from the unfinished to create something new.

Other people's work and their stories

By implementing these shapes that represent debris in a natural chipping away of sediment, it gives my physical and digital publication a key, in the sense that each piece of debris is one category within my archive.

The digital serves as an archive categorizing the collected unfinished work and gives more of the background and the story behind the works. It then feeds into the physical aspect by allowing the user to print out randomized outcomes belonging to one category.

The printed output of the archive will be used in the framework of a semi-blank publication where you can make a new work out of what is considered to be debris and piece it back into a new work and making something out of 'nothing'
Ensuring that the individual work will never be finished as it is coming together with another work.

Design Question:

How can I highlight the significance and intrigue of debris in the form of unfinished by organizing an archive that demonstrates examples and the stories and processes behind those examples and allow hybrid interaction to highlight this point even further?

Hybrid and Urgent Publishing:

Urgent publishing is a form of publishing that increases accessibility speed and quality with a positioned purpose.
It uses innovative and sometimes mediums to achieve this, tailored to the topic or information.
The mediums in hybrid publication should be linked in a way that one is required to feed something into the other

Attempts and sketches of a physical publication

After the tunnel vision I had experienced up until and during the midterms I had to begin to look and reconsider the choices I had made up until this point.
I got the feedback that the idea above was too abstract and too far away from the point of the unfinished as I was asking my reader in a sense to finish the work which doesn't do the unfinished any justice. I wanted to do it justice that was the whole point. I have a tendency to make things too abstract and too difficult so now it' more about focusing on what is actually important.

I talked to Kimmy and Megan and decided to play more with the tension of showcasing this unfinishing and zooming in on aspects that are unfinished, from here Kimmy recommended that I look at Team Thursdays "De Best Verzorgde Boeken 2019" as they successfully showcase a collection of books in a way that draws you in and you are able to focus on the details whilst still receiving an explanation.
This gave me a lot of inspiration for my physical outcome and I just was itching to get going.

I began to embark on the design of the website at this stage I thought the title of the unfinished work along with the story was important and the theory correlation so I wanted to have each page highlight these factors

My goal was to create an archive that highlights the work by organizing an archive that adds intrigue in to the stories and excerpts about the unfinished work that relate to the work.

To organize and to make connections with the unfinished work and the theory I had been researching I had to come up with a very visual indexing technique for myself to start seeing these connections this also helped me determine the way I would eventually design everything.

I printed these thumbnails and began to arrange them based on similarities I could see and gave them a tag this was a good way to start the indexing and got me organizing my content.

I made a list of each work and added all the keywords I had found, I then made a page with all the sources I had accumulated and keywords they had a correlation with. The list was a bit low on the keywords from the sources side so I decided to search deeper by using a keyword generator website where I could see more clearly commonly used words in the sources I now had more to link my collection of unfinished work to and I started to narrow down the most significant keywords. There after I made a word document with the keyword, work and quote from the source that linked to eachother. This made the design and the development of my website more straight forward

Sketches of an idea for the new layout of the physical publication.

Sketches of an idea for the new layout of the physical publication, based on the web design and the Team Thursday inspiration.

I got the idea from my peers that I should instead of having a book showcasing the work that it should be possible to take out the work and hang them as posters to add this apreciatiation aspect to it.
So this was the stage in which I moved away from the Team Thursday book idea and started to rethink how I could make something designed like a book but that would be tangible and able to be taken apart and rearranged at the same time.
So I made these double sided poster pages and added information on the white part at first I wanted this to be able to be taken a part however once I got feedback I realised that this wasn't really necessary.

I started with the test prints 2 weeks before the deadline this helped me decide what size I should use and what text there should be accompanying the work.
It started of with quotes very early on but the I changed it to the correlating tags to make sure that the connection was a bit more seamless from the physical to the digital.

I decided to make the size of the posters smaller as I wasn't fond of the massive size and I prefered the book feeling of the smaller format and big able to more tangibly flick through it.

I created this foreword page to give the reader more information about the project and to use as a divider from the first glance of the posters to the part with the information and tags

I decided I wanted the publication to be bound with a rubberband of sorts to allow the reader to be able to take out the pages and hang them if they so wished and that way they were also able to rearrange the content leaving the catalog unfinished.

I wanted to have a clear layout where the work could be viewed and you can deep dive further into the theory and connections with the work.
I made the layout on XD and after that I exported and adjusted the code according to my needs.
All the functions on were coded afterwards which turned out to be pretty seamless except for the front page which was very difficult to figure out.

I discovered this tabs menu which sort of resembled what I was looking for in my wireframes and serves as a base for navigating through the correlating tags.
Somethings were quite complex about the process of fixing this but in the end I think it worked out really well and I proud that I was able to figure it out. As coding was always very difficult for me.

I drew this wire frames explaining exactly what I needed to have on each page.

I was having difficulties with my main page which caused a lot of stress and headache but the rest of my website was pretty established and just needed the final touches.