Exploring how I think and why was my first step into wondering further about how we all think. It was as if the more I discovered about myself, the more I understood others.
I explored my own psychology and disorder through my experimental project: The Non-planner. I analyzed my change in thinking and mood throughout a year, season by season, and created a planner that was inspired by my “dark side,” or the way I call it the “evil alter-ego.”
The planner is designed as a persona that talks and interacts with the user, which would be my real self who’s trying to convince the dark side to cooperate. The planners are usually designed to organize one’s life, track good habits, promote better time-management and adult skills, whereas The Non-planner is designed to ‘trick’ the viewer into not doing all those things at all.
The planning pages are sometimes dark and distorted and the utility of the object as an actual planner is significantly decreased. Some days are full of cynical ‘thoughts’ that challenge mental productivity and promote bad habits such as not answering an important call or calling in work sick. The comments are occasionally very inappropriate, socially unacceptable, and even morally almost evil.
I turn back and think about the exploration of this introspection and my own past way of thinking. I used graphic design as a medium to communicate subjectively about my confusion and mental operation, which becomes an actual way of looking and digging into a mental disorder.
