Time Capsule Part 2
This week we are prototyping our time capsule project containing personal objects that we selected last week.
The objects that I have from last week are:
- collection of flight tickets(boarding pass)
- photos
- letters and cards from my friends
- jars of objects from my hometown (rocks, woods, leaves and etc.)
Last week, I tried to use Instagram as a platform to tell my story — a story of my travel journey and discoveries. And I tried to create a interactive user experience: the way how they navigate on my page is like going back in time and being part of my journey and discovering all the interesting stories with me along the way.
Therefore, instead of presenting all the objects at once, I wish this experience is more like opening a Russian doll — one pocket inside another pocket, so you never know what you are going to get until you open the next one, which it is like how we travel: we never know what’s going to happen next, what we will see and who we will meet.
And I wish to apply this concept to my time capsule design as well. Because my objects are mostly flat (boarding pass, cards, photos), I decided to create a album or book like medium so these things can easily attach on it, and be easily organized as well (loss pages). But unlike traditional books which most pages have the same format and one binding technique. I wish to explore paper folding and different types of binding to create a more interactive experience.
I started sketching out different page folding techniques. But I found it difficult to visualize when it comes to having multiple pages attached and using different binding methods. So I started to experiment by hand.
Page sequences in each collection: (each collection is one destination)
- cover (travel from xxx to xxx)
- flight tickets (boarding pass)
- photos (maybe with some text description)
- letters and cards from people associated to the destination
This is also the order for what I want the users to see/read step by step (so they see one thing after another).
Based on this sequence, I created each page based on what should be revealed and hided (see images above). And these pages will be all glued on one board for one collection. There are six collections included in this journal so far, and all collections are bound with rings. After finishing the prototype, I recreated a final version based on the prototype and used double-sided tape to attach my boarding pass and photos (printed in instax), and fitted my cards into the envelopes.
The final version is in this video:
