Big bird blog (blog)

With recent experiments in Adobe InDesign, I have been enjoying “using it wrong”. With the overlay of personal images of family photos taken as a child in the 2010s, I have reconnected with a sense of childhood play through reminiscing over my first interactions with technology in primary school computer class. Here, the screenshots appear as a disinterest in skill and lack of curation, yet the design's resolutions speak to the unique position Gen Z finds themselves in. Where we are inescapably fused to digital media, software and platforms, with our fingers progressively morphing into letter keys with every digital exchange encountered, there is also an opportunity and a drive to ‘opt out’, play, and discover new ways of approaching traditional formal constructs of design.