For this AR panel project, Emily, Walker and I chose to use thrift stores around Seattle as out point of interest. We decided to make informational panels in Eyejack to enhance a potential customer or visitor’s experience. This way a viewer of the panels can learn more information about each store through the panels. As a group we decided that we wanted to include important information about each store, like their amenities as well as some information about what the store offers and what makes it unique.
For my panel project i focused on Red Light Vintage on University Way in the U District. This is a unique store that stocks a lot of vintage clothing from the 1920s to the early 2000s. It also stocks vintage inspired clothing, as well as vintage costume pieces and some new items like novelty socks and glasses.
For the first panel, our group decided to focus on 6 amenities that customers might be looking for when they visit the store. These include things like dressing rooms, restrooms and wheel chair accessibility.
In the middle panel we each created a poster type image with our store’s logo and an animation. For the final panel we decided to include more qualitative information about what kinds of clothing the store stocks, and whether the store will buy or trade customers’ clothing.
To create the project, we created a shared group Figma file where we each created our panels. After creating the informational panels I started to work on creating an animated panel with the Red Light logo. Unfortunately Red Light does not appear to have an official logo, so I decided to take inspiration from the distinctive neon signs in the shop’s window to make a logo. I created a neon type treatment in Illustrator, which was challenging, and only worked on a dark background. For the animation i decided to make several variations of a checkerboard pattern, inspired by the tile floor of the store. I placed the logo in each frame and created the animation in Eyejack. It was fun to go back to Red Light after making the panels to get to see them in action.
