Week 1: Image Making Ideas and HTML & CSS Review
As you’re developing your images for your Time Capsule, let’s take a look and observe a few ways of creating graphics and treatments that can help unify them.

Your photos should all be unique (i.e you can’t have one photo that you repeat 10 times) but should work as part of a visual collection. Consider the content of what you’re highlighting as well as how it’s formally depicted.

Let’s take a look at a few different examples and notice what kinds of effects you can achieve and what makes some of the series feel consistent.


Scan an Object

Scanning an object at a high resolution (300 or 400 DPI) is a great way of capturing it without having to worry about lighting etc. These are a couple leaves I scanned earlier this year. Scanning without the lid gives you a nice black fill (rather than the top of the scanner).

You can also use a scanner to capture motion


In the above, I scanned a rose and a piece of paper that I moved around while scanning. I printed it out and used it as a Valentines Day card a few years ago.

Bruno Munari, Original Xerographies



Alexander Valentine, Algorithm Gerbils

This book visualizes our physical interactions with touch screens. Even though all the illustrations are different, what makes them consistent in the context of this book?

The Royal Wedding FAQ, Tracy Ma for NYTimes

  • Collages
  • Gifs
  • Edited assets using found materials


Toiletpaper Magazine (2015), Maurizio Cattelan and Pierpaolo Ferrari


  • consistent photography style
  • surrealist content
  • high contrast

Max Lamb, Exercises in Seating

  • straightforward, candid shots that simply depict the scene