Shop Guide
An application component for exploring shops and events focused on selling art toys/designer collectibles.
Concept
Create a concept application as a digital version for the Art Toy guide project
Art Toys are a broad category of collectible toys that serve as accessible contemporary art for some.
The Fine Art world often criticizes the legitimacy of art toys. These collectibles pieces offer a way for people to be more involved in contemporary art; they’re affordable, space friendly, and affiliated with pop culture; they are not just for purchase; they have fluctuating prices that appreciate over time and aspire to some of the world’s largest collectors to fill their homes with art toys, further propelling them to iconic heights.
Since Art Toys are just a single category of Collector Toys, this is the application component.
Exploration
An application version of the printed West Coast Shop Guide: ART TOYS required the creation of new illustrations and page styles in Adobe Illustration, and organization/testing in Adobe XD.
Design System: For this project, I had to incorporated the visual identity of the guide
I created new illustrations to match/enhance the look and feel of the original printed guide.
Icon Creation
Digital page drafts
Digital info drafts
Application design
Final Solution
In the end, the final solution took many forms. Unifying the type was one task. Identifying the value through the information was more difficult as this is a tough topic to tackle and not an easy guide to make when one considers the displacement of small business that have shuttered due to the pandemic
Typeface and Color palette assets
