rethinking the TSA

Phase 3 Review - Tuesday 11/25

2008-11-23T17:53:00.003-05:00

Phase 3 Design Review Will be on Tuesday November 25th from 9am-12noon.
This phase will conclude the design portion of this project with performative diagrams, animations and overall project design work.

Maps/Diagrams/Form inspiration links

2008-11-04T08:45:00.002-05:00

Maps/Diagrams

Superfuture

Manhattan Transformations

2x4

ASY (Asymptote Architecture - NY)

BIG (Danish)

MVRDV (Dutch)

OMA (Dutch)

NMDA (Neil M Denari - LA)

SHoP (NY)

Leeser Architecture (NY)

GL Form (Greg Lynn - LA)

WORK (NY)

Design Resources

2008-10-14T08:42:00.002-04:00

PSDTUTS (Photoshop + design tutorials)
www.psdtuts.com

VectorTuts (illustrator + design tutorials)
www.vectortuts.com

NetTuts
www.nettuts.com

VideoCopilot.net (AE tutorials)
www.videocopilot.net

Group Crits - Tuesday 10/14

2008-10-13T21:40:00.002-04:00

We will be having Group Crits from 9-11:30 on Tuesday. We will meet in our room at 9am and proceed to the atrium/cafe lounge from there.

Electroland

2008-10-12T12:27:00.003-04:00

Check out these guys interactive/environmental work. Really great stuff! In particular note the airport project in Florida at electroland.net

GE OLEDs: Think e-wallpaper and e-mini blinds!

2008-10-12T12:08:00.004-04:00

GE to make changes to lighting business by 2010: Posted by Engadget, Article on CNN

Phase 1 Review - 10/7

2008-10-06T20:25:00.002-04:00

Phase 1 Review, tomorrow 10/7. Be ready at 9am to start. Review order is as follows.

9:00 - 9:30 Columbus
9:30 - 10:00 Louisville

10:00 - 10:15 Break

10:15 - 10:45 Cincinnati
10:45 - 11:15 Dayton
11:15 - 11:45 Indianapolis

CLEAR has the best gosh-darned branding!

2008-10-06T20:17:00.004-04:00

The TSA could learn a lot about graphics and what it takes to create a comprehensive branding package. Check out what the private organization CLEAR has assembled at CVG. It takes more than the carefully placed DHS seal and randomly scattered Diamond Lane signage to make people feel at ease.

Prohibited Items Brochure

2008-10-06T20:14:00.002-04:00

Will people take the time to read this? Do they know it is available?

3-1-1

2008-10-06T20:12:00.002-04:00

Is this graphic effective? Is there a clearer, better way to convey this information to passengers?

No Sketching or Mini Sluggers

2008-10-01T23:11:00.004-04:00

Thought our SDF team would enjoy this post. Seems that sketching isn't the only thing banned. Folks down south have a lot of bats to deal with too. Check this blog for the rant. Team SDF, will have a lot of graphics and pictograms in their potential proposals about what you can't do. Seriously.

Stay in the know with DESIGN BLOGS

2008-10-01T20:12:00.006-04:00

Form Fifty Five (print, graphic design, illustration, typography)

The Dieline (innovative package design)

Swiss Miss (design, art, web design)

Grain Edit (retro print design from 1950s-1970s)

The Serif (print & typography)

NotCot (industrial design, product design)

Collection of Airport Signage

2008-09-29T11:32:00.003-04:00

Great graphic design blog featuring Airport Signage. Check out designworkplan for the inspiration. Note the illustrator file for download of great arrows!

Flight 501 Departing Tomorrow

2008-09-24T20:23:00.003-04:00

Looking forward to meeting you all tomorrow. Please be sure to bring your syllabus to class. We will be doing introductions, going over the class protocols, reviewing the project, selecting teams, and discussing timing of our site visits. See you all at 9.

The Photographer's Right

2008-09-24T01:55:00.000-04:00

There have been some questions regarding taking photos in places like airports. This is often though of as a very gray area, but in general, if you are in a public space like an airport you can take photos. Shopping malls for example are not public space-and are private property owned by large corporations. Search the internet, and you will find many photos of airport spaces, security lines, etc. There is an excellent document called The Photographer's Right that you should download, print out and carry on you when photographing. Read it and understand it.

With respect to your upcoming site analysis you should be prepared to:

1. Download a plan or map of the airport before you go.
1. Observe, people-watch, take notes
2. Sketch by hand, draw diagrams, plans, vignettes
3. Take images: photos, and or video: discreetly, from afar, as close as you can get without being in the way, interfering with people or becoming too close to those who may object.

If you are asked what you are doing, be polite and explain that you are a student researching the way people practice flowing through the space. You do not have to say anything about security . Keep it to the point and vague. Use some of the notes in the Photographer's Guide and mention that you are not a threat, and that it is not illegal to take photos in public space. Remember, anyone can come into the airport to wait or pick up a person, to drop off someone. You just can't go through security without a ticket.

Mark Your Calendars

2008-09-23T21:47:00.000-04:00

Studio Deadline Reminders - Fall 2008

Phase 1 - Research

Tuesday, 10.07.08

Deliverables: Research Presentation, Site Analysis, Outline of Recommendations (Paired Teams)

Format: Web Format Presentation, with accompanying designed PDF report document

Phase 2 - rethinking Branding/Signage/Motion Graphics

Thursday, 10.30.08

Deliverables: Graphic Identity, Color, Typography, Site Specific Signage Prototypes, Motion Graphic/Information Process Diagram Prototypes (Individual Teams)

Format: Web Format Presentation, accompanying video animations (Flash or Quicktime) with accompanying designed PDF report document

Phase 3 - Mapping Space

Tuesday, 11.18.08

Deliverables: Space Mapping/Interface Interactive Diagrams: 3d+2d (Individual Teams)

Format: Interactive Presentation (Flash, Quicktime, Javascript, or combinations thereof)

Phase 4 - Coalescence

Thursday, 12.04.08

Deliverables: (re)Grouped presentations combining both original teams (same airport)

Format: Web/Interactive based Presentation, accompanying video animations, with accompanying PDF report

Course Blog

2008-09-23T21:45:00.000-04:00

You may have noticed the blogger warning message, fear not, the blog has not been taken over by spam, and I have requested that it be unblocked. Their algorithms are apparently not working correctly! Please be sure to check back with the blog on a day to day basis. Adding an RSS feed to your favorite reader may be helpful!

Design + Technology Inspiration: Minority Report

2008-09-23T21:14:00.000-04:00

The 2002 film Minority Report always comes to mind when thinking about how design and technology may evolve and become more ubiquitous in the future. The Mall Scene (Advertisements) scene in the film are some of the most forward thinking visualations of viral marketing that I have ever seen. You tube has a bunch of clips, but in order not to get flagged as spam (as the blog has recently been locked), I will only post the one clip. Examples such as this are helpful also in thinking in the larger realm of "security" and "tracking."

Getting Started - Some Research Links

2008-09-22T13:38:00.000-04:00

TSA

TSA
TSA Blog
TSA Checkpoint Evolution
TSA Security Design Guidelines
CLEAR

Airports

CVG (Cincinnati)
DAY (Dayton)
CMH (Columbus)
SDF (Louisville)
IND (Indianapolis)

Videos - Checkpoint Evolutions

TSA Checkpoint Evolution Prototype
TSA Checkpoint Evolution Impressions
TSA Checkpoint Panels
TSA Checkpoint Multimedia
TSA Checkpoint Ambience
TSA Checkpoint Evolution Document Checker
TSA Checkpoint Evolution Composure Benches
TSA Checkpoint Evolution Storyboards

Videos - Other

TSA Lane Select
TSA SimpliFLY
TSA Security Reminders
TSA Abuse
TSA MacBookAir

Project Component Phases

2008-09-22T13:35:00.000-04:00

PHASE 1 / RESEARCH

Site reconnaissance, inefficiencies, observations, history, identifying the issues. Present research of data, and make recommendations of what needs improvement. Research will be conducted in five teams, consisting of two team pairs, each selecting an airport.

PHASE 2 / RETHINKING BRAND / SIGNAGE / MOTION GRAPHICS

Identity, logotype, color, typography, signage, graphics. Ten two person teams from this point on will work on their own using the research conducted en masse. Using emerging digital technologies such as OLED (organic LED displays), eInk (electronic inc), as well as current digital display technologies such as LED and LCD displays, make the security process clear and understandable for the wide range of travel expertise and ages across the country. You will create motion studies to make the process clear.

PHASE 3 / MAPPING SPACE

2D + 3D mapping, diagramming, and motion studies demonstrating the newly planned flow of space. How do people practice secure space, (i.e. queues) What can be done to make the process more navigable? Much like information architecture, explore how people will navigate and negotiate the space of security within your newly TSA branded environments through an interactive diagram.

PHASE 4 / COALESCENCE

Bringing it all together. five co-team presentations, regrouping the two teams from each airport with two alternate, and perhaps complimentary solutions. One presentation per airport, with two solutions.

**We will outline more specific deliverable components in class as we get to each deadline.

rethinking the TSA: Senior Design Studio

2008-09-22T13:33:00.000-04:00

PREFACE

The Transportation Security Administration or TSA was formed out of the post 9/11 legislations, to make America safer and more secure. In short, the TSA has become a design disaster. TSA security graphics and screening queues are confusing, amateurish, and are inconsistent from airport to airport. Security queues were created from make-shift objects and materials, creating a temporary feel to a mandate that is anything but. These poorly executed solutions are evidence of the need for mediation of what is a very important design problem: Moving people easily through security, while communicating the rules and mandates which they must comply by all while making people feel comfortable, allowing them to navigate the protocols in an accessible manner, while presenting them with graphics that clearly communicate procedures that are often random and disparate depending on location. Despite the flaws, the TSA has started a design strategy called Checkpoint Evolution to make security better. This strategy has been recently implemented at BWI (Baltimore Washington International).

OBJECTIVE

The object of this studio is to rethink the way the TSA could use design as a strategy to improve signage, instructions, graphics, space navigation and people flow. As designers you will be required to dig in from scratch to research, identify, rebrand, rethink, and reconfigure the way information, graphics and wayfinding are deployed in typical airports in a 250 mile radius of the University of Cincinnati Campus. You will be working in two person teams. To make the project more realistic, each team will be focusing on a physical site. Cincinnati (CVG), Dayton (DAY), Columbus (CMH), Indianapolis (IND), Louisville (SDF) are five major airports within a two hour drive of Cincinnati. Two or Three teams will select each airport. Part of your research will be on-site for examining, sketching and documenting existing conditions and to meet with security officials. To the casual traveler, one may not notice the abrupt design solutions implemented by the TSA. Designers of all sorts will notice the flaws, the mishaps, and the areas where grand improvements can be made.

Welcome to Digital Design 4 - Fall 2008

2008-09-22T13:29:00.001-04:00

DESIGN DESIGN 4
RETHINKING THE TSA
23DGTL501

University of Cincinnati

C0llege of DAAP, School of Design, Digital Design Program

Fall 2008
Tu + Th 9:00-11:50a
Room 6221 DAAP

Justin Molloy with Rachel Fujita
[of hyaline studios]