Eliot Vogel

The Brief: To create a magazine focusing on a public space and to explore it through any means. With the aim to represent interesting and unique public spaces, I decided to tackle this brief by taking the viewer into a different world; the virtual public space of Final Fantasy 14, an MMORPG (Massive Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Game). This project took 12 weeks to complete and required me to continuously go into the game and document different events and places, as the FF14 world constantly changes and shifts, and that progression is important to represent in my final publication design.

This project’s direction came from an article that describes the mind of a spider and how spiders tend to store information in their webs. This means that a spider has two minds – the mind in its head and the mind in its web. By accessing these two minds, it can understand the world around it and using that concept, I looked at the spider’s web and connected it to the way humans use symbols to navigate places even if one has never been there before. I furthered this by tying logos and symbols together and created an experience where the audience expands their ‘web’, clicking on different elements to pull up articles connecting everything together.

The Rat King is a strange phenomenon discussed on Wikipedia where a collection of rats somehow manages to get their tails tangled together and are unable to part. This collection of rats, against popular belief, somehow survive. The Rat King is designed to take the viewer on a journey through a strange website where you don’t know what’s going on nor where you are going. To traverse the Rat King is to experience a site where you can get caught up in loops as one tries to click around the page to find where to go next. It is a place where you need to zoom out and explore pages beyond what one might think they need to do in order to find the clue for the next stage.

The brief of this typographic project was to take an important issue and create a 5000+ word paper on it. As part of this project, I had to design the distribution process, select the stock and think of an interesting way for the user to interact with my work to properly experience the message.

The Exam against Exams is a typographic project based on my immense dislike of exams. The way that they are used to create huge amounts of stress beyond what one would experience in most lines of work to standardise intelligence. Exams have created many issues throughout education on a global level, and it is through looking into this issue and talking about the question of what makes exams so ineffective that hopefully change might occur.

The Process of Life is a photo series revolving around Agonis Flexuosa, a native plant that is found in Southern Western Australia with historical, spiritual, and medicinal significance for the Noongar people. There are four sections which interact with the different elements water, steam, fire, and ash. This represents the many ways the environment interacts with the tree and how the Noongar people used it in ceremony or medicine. Water is the starting point of all life, steam reflects the hot steamy climate of Australia. Then we have fire – the natural cycle that all Australian plants go through for rejuvenation. Finally, we have dust – the end of the cycle and the beginning of another.

Gliding is a highly conceptual and experimental VR film that has been selected as a finalist in the ‘Best Experimental Film’ category at the 2021 ATOM awards.

atomawards.org/2021-tertiary-industry-entry/gliding/

Gliding is a VR (Virtual Reality) which takes the audience on a journey though water. Gliding is a film that that explores bodies of water ranging from a swimming pool to a pot of water and finally to the ocean. It explores how people connect to these bodies of water offering insight into different experiences people can derive from swimming and water, whether that is fear, joy, or anything in-between.

Gliding is a film that was created by Eliot Vogel and Ben Simkiss