Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.
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thingsithought.today is an interactive visual poetry anthology exploring the disorientating experience of mental illness. The site consists of eleven fully immersive poems that incorporate collage, bizarre gifs, hover interactions, and animated typography. As the user scrolls, they progress through each poem and its associated imagery, allowing complicated and ever-shifting relationships to form between text and image. Ambient sound also plays throughout each poem, acting as a sort of auditory “diction” that sets a mood or implies a specific setting for each piece. The result is a consuming poetic experience which has begun the process of unpacking interaction and motion as visual rhetorical devices. What’s more, the site helps to destigmatize mental illness through its frank and accessible tone, and then redirects individuals in need to relevant support services.
Lauren Holden (she/her) is an award-winning designer and educator based in Toronto, Canada. Her interdisciplinary practice explores experimental storytelling through print, digital and spatial interventions. Lauren's work has been recognized by Graphic Design USA, the Registered Graphic Designers of Canada, Applied Arts Magazine and others. She holds an MFA in 2D Design from Cranbrook Academy of Art. You can find more of her work at lholden.com
