Platform is Harvard University Graduate School of Design’s annual compendium of student work, events, lectures, and exhibitions. Inspired by the timeline of social media feeds, the theme we chose for the 2016-2017 school year -- “Live Feed” -- recounts the year in reverse chronological order, from July 2017 to August 2016. Pulled from a crowd-sources database of 117,518 available files, this “live feed” of the institution samples 728 images from students, faculty, and staff, revealing the fluidity between the place, production, and people of the design school.
The book is constructed with a French fold, lending the conceptual feel of a single long strip of uninterrupted paper. The layout employs a loose, flexible grid, reflect ing the organic nature of events. Dates are used instead of page numbers, and image captions and texts appear in an appendix at the end of the book, which bends time back around again with a forward chronology.
Copublished by Harvard University Graduate School of Design and Actar, 2017
ISBN 978-1-94515-060-9
362 pages
Role: Editor
Project team: Jon Lott, John May, Sofia Balters, Justin Gallagher, Grace McEniry
Graphic designer: Natasha Jen, Pentagram
