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Bloom Editorial Design (Web And Print Media), Natalie Briscoe

Graphic Design

No abstract provided.

Advocacy Ad, Destiny Carter

Graphic Design

Student researched a current social issue then created a concept and wrote persuasive body copy.

Legible/Illegible, Micaela Herrera

Graphic Design

Student hand rendered a four letter word in a traditional typeface, then removed parts of each letter that still made the word legible, then removed more until the word was illegible.

Logo Series, Natalie Briscoe

Graphic Design

Student created work using Illustrator and InDesign software.

Book Cover Series, Olivia Fortune

Graphic Design

Student created this series using original drawings working in Illustrator and InDesign software.

Psa Poster, Tara Walton

Graphic Design

No abstract provided.

A Designers Code Of Ethics, Danielle Long

Graphic Design

Student created the poster using InDesign software.

Drop Caps, Karen Matkosky

Graphic Design

Student created this series using original drawings and photography working in

Photoshop and InDesign software.

Are You My Mother?, Destiny Carter

Graphic Design

No abstract provided.

Below The Surface, Bailey Lawlor

Graphic Design

No abstract provided.

Postcards For Improbable Locations, Bailey Lawlor

Graphic Design

No abstract provided.

Carolina De Alba Portfolio Senior Portfolio, Carolina De Alba

Graphic Design

Baume is a naturally hydrating skincare brand with products for all skin, regardless of your age, gender, or budget. Baume is vegan, cruelty-free, and so gentle that anyone can use it.

Product Photography by Amy Miller

Branding, Kristin Clark

Graphic Design

No abstract provided.

Poster, Ashley Olafson

Graphic Design

Student created this series using InDesign software.

Baume: Posters And Packaging, Alicia Stephens

Graphic Design

Baume is a naturally hydrating skincare brand with products for all skin, regardless of your age, gender, or budget. Baume is vegan, cruelty-free, and so gentle that anyone can use it.

Brochure, William (Drew) Desirey

Graphic Design

Student created the series using Photoshop and InDesign software.

Branding Series, Katherine Hansen

Graphic Design

Student created work using Photoshop and InDesign software.

Criterion’S French New Wave Film Posters And Packaging, Alicia Stephens

Graphic Design

The goal of this independent study project was to mix old design methods with new to recreate posters and packaging for some of my favorite French New Wave films. These were modeled after the Criterion Collection, which is a series of important classic and contemporary films.

Idiom Cards, William (Drew) Desirey

Graphic Design

This series was created to promote the use of Environment Paper from Neenah. Student created the series using InDesign software.

Infographic, Melanie Bounlisavong

Graphic Design

Student created work using Illustrator and InDesign software.

Space, Junk, Brandon Olsen

Masters Theses

Space, Junk acknowledges and embraces the world as a chaotic and uncertain place. Graphic design often directly contrasts the messiness of humanity. Clean and ordered composition can conceal the muddled nature of a subject. The designer's role isn't to force perfection, but to create an aesthetic that accurately represents content. I place value on rips, smears, blurriness, and distortion as well as feelings provoked by variability. Through works created in multiple spaces (book space, architectural space, web space, etc.) this thesis focuses on finding worth in undervalued junk, using mess as a means to represent convoluted issues, and utilizing fun …

Lingua Franca, Tatiana Gomez Gaggero

Masters Theses

Lingua Franca examines how graphic design and art are used as a common language between people who speak the same language, speak different languages or have distinct cultural backgrounds.1 Understanding languages as living systems that are in constant movement and in direct relation with cultures, this thesis looks at graphic design as a platform for coding and decoding language, shaping and reshaping it.

My fascination with the relationship between culture, language and linguistics led me to investigate topics such as context collapse, the evolution of Spanish in Latin America, and notions of identity, gender and translation. In a moment of …

Squishy Play, Lauren Traugott-Campbell

Masters Theses

Work is part of our identity and dictates how workers spend most of their time in the US. This obsession has truncated our imagination and ability to conceive of alternatives. As a tactic to reclaim free time, I offer a practice I refer to as squishy play in which participants momentarily adopt new social norms to collectively discover new ways of engaging with the world and each other.

I use squishy play as a lens to investigate the power structures, social norms, and material output of late capitalism in the US. Squishy play is generous in its frivolity. It is …

Placefulness, Ellen Christensen

Masters Theses

Graphic design has been referred to as a tool of inquiry — a method of thinking visually. Design can polish, beautify, hierarchize, eliminate, prioritize, propagandize, or disseminate. Using spatial inquiry as a primary mode of investigation, I argue that graphic design is also a process of attention and care. How can graphic design be a tool of expansion and inclusion?

By encouraging spaces of attention and listening within the built environment and virtual worlds, we can think critically about power dynamics, interiority and exteriority, and subjectivity and objectivity. Within this phase of late capitalism, I focus on leftovers, scraps, and …

Field Guide : Collected Studies Of A Symbiont, Jennifer Livermore

Masters Theses

Field Guide is a collection of studies that explore how symbiosis relates to graphic design. These studies investigate how visual language constructs — and is constructed by — ideas about nature.

As a manipulator of language and imagery, I borrow the ecologist’s methods in order to make sense of our relationship with the natural world. My techniques include observation, collection, mutation, framing and recombination. I use these methods not to celebrate them, but to expose their subjective nature.

I approach visual language, technology, and our ecological home as an entangled set of ideas rather than estranged categories. My work investigates …

Monument For Feeling : Notes From The Archivist, Melissa Weiss

Masters Theses

I’ve always loved the conjunctions unless, yet, however, although. Grammatical interventions, they subvert all things certain, rational, and indisputable, opening a series of syntactic doorways into new, undetermined possibilities.

The pieces in the Institute fo? Contempo?a?y Inqui?y’s archive function like those conjunctions. They refuse and destabilize easy categorization, pointing, like a rhizome, toward a thousand different possible pasts — and just as many futures.

To be clear, the Institute fo? Contempo?a?y Inqui?y does not have a physical site. It is a network of psychic locations materialized through its archive. It is, in other words, what I have gathered.

I have …

Constellations, Maria Rull Bescós

Masters Theses

In this book you will find a collection of projects that both reflect and simultaneously reinvent my personal way of seeing the world, which I consider to be a space that is complex, diverse, and in continuous transformation.

Graphic design is the lens through which I examine and understand this complexity, and it is also the medium through which I translate this huge realm into navigable systems of ideas, tales, forms, and experiences.

I have been inspired to produce my own systems in response to those I discover through actively observing my environment (territory), reflecting upon my personal background (origin), …

Personal Logo, Amber Ward

Graphic Design

From project to create and design necessary elements for self-promotion and job hunting.

Banjo, Tara Walton

Graphic Design

Legibility assignment: Cut away as much of the word while retaining legibility

Portfolio, Natalia Tolentino

Graphic Design

Sophomore-level Graphic Design assignments