MUART 452 Senior Projects 2010

Each spring I work with the seniors to develop their senior thesis project and exhibition. Visiting critic for 2010 was John Foster from IDEO. Below is a sampling of projects.

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Class Blog: http://muart452.wordpress.com

Carter: Salvage Line of Clothing

Each outfit in the Salvage line is made of repurposed fabric.

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Perez-Torres: Atrevida Brand

“‘Atrevida’, is a bold, daring, outspoken, rebel, bright, and energetic revolution of 20th century ‘beauty’ culture.  Atrevida shows girls it is ok to stand out from the crowd and be bold. Atrevidas have their own sense beauty. Targeting the rapidly growing Hispanic population, (35.3 million, 12.5% of the US population), these ‘Atrevidas’ (daring girls) have a spending power of $ 768 Billion dollars- mostly tweens. The US and its brands are a major influence in Latin America and with more immigrants coming from Latin America they have more money to spend. Not only are they a bigger population but according to an article on the US Hispanic Beauty market, Hispanics ‘over-index’ the beauty category, and purchase at a higher rate than normal.”—Juliana Perez-Torres

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Myers: The Walrus and the Carpenter

“My project is an investigation of type and image; I am trying question and blur the rigid boundaries that are generally drawn between these two basic design elements. I’ll be doing this within the realm of book design, creating two books (one comprised entirely of illustration/imagery and one entirely of text) that both effectively communicate the same story (the narrative poem “The Walrus and the Carpenter” by Lewis Carroll). Ultimately I would like to end up with two books, cohesive and related in design, that both tell/illustrate the same story effectively despite their differing and unorthadox methods of doing so. I feel that a strict separation of text and image is limiting to designers, and that treatment of text as image (and image as text) can lead to new, innovative strides forward in book design and graphic design in general. This project is intended to reach design savvy adults who would be interested in the investigation of type and image as well as the children and parents/caregivers who make up the main audience for children’s books.” —Kristin Myers

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Baldwin: The Daughter Project

“Create a branding identity for “the daughter project”,a non-profit organization in Northwest Ohio that exists to help girls recover from the trauma of human sex trafficking and to help prevent them from being trafficked through community education

Branding will including Logo, Tagline, Letterhead System, Website, Promotional items. As well as creating advertising campaign to evoke awareness about sex trafficking in the United States, in turn promoting the daughter project.” Rachel Baldwin

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Kalus: Sochi Olympics identity

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Chemla: Contaminated Corn (American agricultural study)

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http://contaminatedcorn.blogspot.com/

“I recently discovered that the youth of America, right now, are expected to live about 10 years shorter than their parents. That statistic horrified me so I wanted to learn more about the American Agriculture system. What started out as a search for the cause of obesity in American children turned into a desire to understand all the impacts of American Agriculture- health related, environment related, and economics related.

As a designer that has always had a soft-spot for infographics, I took the information I was learning and began illustrating some of the complex processes and systems in a more approachable and understandable manner. The sum of these illustrations were compiled into a book, “Contaminated Corn & Starving Farmers”. But I didn’t want it to end there. The problems with AmAg affect all Americans, young and old, rich and poor, and I wanted to start a discussion about the topic- stimulated by my illustrations. “—Liz Chmela

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Burr: Photography Study

My project is an investigation of the mediums of photography- Traditional versus Contemporary. I am personally exploring the use of a large format camera, a 35mm camera and a digital point and shoot camera to discover the differences in image production. My body of work will show similar images taken by all three cameras in order to visually demonstrate the differences. This will all be compiled in a book the covers a brief history of photography, 4×5/ large format photography, the rise of 35mm work and the current trend of digital photography. This book is intended to be a reference and source of enlightenment for photography and art lovers a like.

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Berlin: Gig Poster Study

“People from the ages 10-30 constantly buy posters for decor and personal interests, music posters usually stand dominate in these sales. Why not turn a great generation of the 70s rock into a modern twist, to transform 70s gig posters into a modern age. This will be a study of design aesthetics in the 70s and 2000s. What seperates these gig poster from one to the next, is that they will be a combination of print and different medias in one. The posters will almost appear as a collage of different materials used on the posters, which will be turned into a book focusing on aesthetics and different mediums of art through gig posters.” —Kristin Berlin

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Graphic Design Exhibition 2010: Sleep is Optional