Assignment

Create four timekeeper visual designs. These could be sketches in traditional media; cardboard prototypes; digital 2D or 3D designs. You may use code to generate static designs, but don’t implement anything dynamic in code yet (that’s coming!) Look ahead to the techniques and libraries that will be surveyed in the next class. Come ready to try out some code in P5, Arduino, or both. Download libraries for Greensock and/or Func (JS) Ramp and/or Tasker (Arduino)

Reading: Syllabus notes on Timekeeping Devices, Watch Face Design, and Bad Clocks. This overview of Tufte’s data design principles.

Response

Inspiration

  1. William Blake’s poem, Auguries of Innocence

    “To see a World in a Grain of Sand And a Heaven in a Wild Flower Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand And Eternity in an hour…”

  2. CW&T’s Rotation Notation

    “This watch is built with an automatic mechanical movement. There is no stem to set the hour hand or wind the mechanism. So if you want to change the time, remove the old string and add string in the appropriate holes to mark 12 o’clock, 6 o’clock or whatever combination you like. Over time, the accumulation of string leaves behind a history of your notations.”

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  3. Article on chronomentrophobia, Chronomentrophobia is the fear of clocks and watches

    Photo from https://timeandtidewatches.com/chronomentrophobia-the-fear-of-clocks-and-watches/

    Photo from https://timeandtidewatches.com/chronomentrophobia-the-fear-of-clocks-and-watches/

Timekeeper Visual Designs

I wanted to make clocks that tracked time but not with a great deal of fidelity. The above inspirations are examples of time being measured more by experience rather than precise counts. In the last example, one is afraid of clocks entirely!

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