Survey 3
Rationale
The objective of this project was to make an Invision mood board about one of the 10 survey periods.
Here is my mood board for Survey 3: Block books and Baroque (1450-1750): https://projects.invisionapp.com/boards/TX40QPVQZRS/
The 3 events that I chose for this particular Survey were, the invention of the graphite pencil (1565), tea introduced in England (1650), and Okumura Masanobu introduced linear perspective in Ukiyo-e prints (1740).
I chose these events because I was interested to learn more about how these familiar inventions that we all know of and use today, came to be. I enjoyed learning about events and found it interesting that tea originated from China and didn’t actually get introduced to England till later. I also realized that though tea and the graphite pencil were introduced centuries ago, not much has been altered, and we still use them in much the same ways.
The challenging aspect of this project for me was researching to find the same amount of info on the event for each topic because even while doing thorough research on the event, I was still unable to find detailed information on the topic of architecture for both the graphite pencil and linear perspective. I was also surprised to find that there was not a lot of information on Okumura Masanobu, and most of his information was repetitive across several sources. As a result the moodboard took many hours to complete, and even then I had to stop myself from wanting to make more changes/additions to the layout.
With that being said I am happy with the result of my mood board especially as my first time using Invision. If I were to evaluate myself on this project I would give myself a 9/10. I believe that I understood the purpose of this project by clearly displaying necessary information about each event in a way that the reader would want to interact with and engage in. I deduct a point because I feel as if I don’t have full knowledge of how to customize mood boards in Invision. I also think that if I spent more time I would have included more images with detailed captions.