Track Record is the thesis book I made at the end of the Yale MFA program. It's a record of my own interest in tracking as it played out in projects I made over the course of the three years I spent at Yale. I designed the book itself in Microsoft Excel rather than trying to design an object that would emulate the formal qualities of information or data-intensive graphics. | ||
One section of the book is a record of all the 'design projects' I made between the Fall of 2002 and the Spring of 2005. With the information I gathered in the Work Record spreadsheet I generated some charts that show things like my font usage over time, productivity, and media preferences. | ||
The book includes an (illustrated) annotated bibliography and also the daily excel drawings that I began working on around the time that I was putting this book together. | ||
The pages at the end of the book are the 'tracked changes' that I set Excel to collect as I worked on the book. They track the history of the document's creation from beginning to end. (2005) | ||