The Lockdown Playbook: Download, Color, and Donate

Each year, the first-year students create an interactive exhibition at Wanted Design Manhattan—exploring everything from gender to climate change to data profiling to socio-political priorities to the impact of social media, to the denial of access, to revealing the hidden elements of design—each a project resulting from the Design Performance class.

This year, of course, Wanted Design (along with all of the NYCxDESIGN celebration) was cancelled, and quarantined at home, the students researched and contemplate what “design performances” they could inpsire. Putting together a huge collection in what they branded The Lockdown PLAYbook—the result is a set of strategies and activities to give us hope, and help us triumph over the everyday challenges of the current quarantine.

The project is anchored around a central website. The activities take the form of storyboards, are broken down into 5 categories: EAT, PROTECT, SOCIALIZE, REST, AND EXERCISE, and within each section are multiple stories.

Lockdown screenshot - keep your distance

Accompanying the website is a downloadable PDF Coloring Book, where families can download all 70 illustrations, color them in, and then share them on social media.

Lockdown Screnshot - Renew Recipe
EAT: Renew a family recipe

View the whole coloring book by clicking on the ISSUU link below:

The Lockdown PLAYbook is a set of strategies and activities to give you hope and help you triumph over the everyday challenges of the current quarantine. Print the coloring book. Get others involved. And then indulge your hands, your imaginations, and your crayons in animating these ideas through color and pattern.

In addition, the illustrations have been applied to products that visitors can order, where all proceeds donated to WHO COVID-19 Solidarity Response Fund.

woman in mask with illustrations
screenshot of website with Lockdown products

Check out more of the project below!

Lockdown Screnshot - Exercise
Screenshot of Lockdown playbook website
Lockdown screenshot - move as one
Screenshot of Lockdown playbook website
Screenshot of Lockdown playbook website: clean the house
Lockdown screenshot - best sleep
Screenshot of Lockdown playbook website: Keep your distance
Lockdown screenshot - marry best friend
Lockdown screenshot - kick stress out
Screenshot of Lockdown playbook website: move as one

You can page through the coloring book above.

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