With this blog I will begin tracking my progress for my Senior Thesis Project. For this project I will be exploring Dante’s Divine Comedy, specifically Inferno. I will be creating an interactive reading experience for Inferno on the iPad. To go along with the digital experience will be hardbound copies with my personal cover design.
With this project I will be exploring UI/UX design, specifically as it pertains to reading large amounts of text in a digital format-but different from something like iBooks. I will be exploring ways in which the reading can be made more interactive and helpful, most likely looking at digital textbooks for inspiration.
For the hand bound books I will be exploring the many, many iterations of the Divine comedy’s cover. I will pursue my own design based off of others, historical research, and my reading of the text. I will seek to improve my bookbinding skills to create a well constructed and beautiful book.