JUMP!STAR
Working with George Ferrandi (site here), I helped to reimagine and develop printed materials for several projects related to her initiative Jump!Star.
“In the not so distant future, the night skies overhead will look decidedly different. By the end of the next millennium we’ll have a new North Star. Because of a lesser-known phenomenon called Axial Precession, our Polar Star is perpetually in slow transition.
LIKE EVERYTHING ELSE IN THE WORLD—AND IN OUR LIVES—OUR NORTH STAR CHANGES.
Given our propensity for star parties (New Year’s Eve marks another rotation around our closest star, after all) and the planetary challenges humans will be facing in the coming centuries, welcoming our next North Star will be cause for quite the celebration. This speculation leads to a flurry of questions: What would an event of that significance look like? Will there be special songs? Dances? Snacks? Who will plan it? When will they start?
WHAT IF IT’S… US?
AND WHAT IF WE WERE TO START NOW?
For the last few years American artist George Ferrandi has been uniting scientists, musicians, artists and arts organizations to collaborate with communities around the country in the invention of an answer to the question:
HOW ON EARTH WILL WE SAY GOODBYE TO POLARIS—THE LIGHT THAT HAS GUIDED US FOR HUNDREDS OF YEARS, LEADING SHIPS TO SHORE AND ENSLAVED PEOPLE TO FREEDOM?”
At its core, the Jump!Star initiative is about recalibrating our relationship with time by asking us to think about it on a much longer scale than we usually do. It asks us to visualize the future and our aspirations for it, allowing us the possibility to reverse-engineer those hopes into active decisions we make today.
Starting with an existing logo, we created a visual language for all publications and materials that inspires as well as informs about Jump!Star’s goals.
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FIELD GUIDE
The Field Guide is designed to resemble a scout handbook and introduces members to the host of past and future North Stars. There is a wealth of information for each star so organizing it in a clean and legible way was one of the main challenges in creating this guide.
DEKASCOPE
The Dekascope is an interactive zine designed for users to fill out and submit to a ten year time capsule. Originally made for the freshman class of Wichita State University in Kansas as an exercise to rethink one’s concept of time, the Dekascope has since been utilized by people from all over the country and many have submitted their entires to time capsules. This is a simple folded zine that feels personal yet prompts one to share personal details about their present and future hopes/dreams/fears.