AAS Communication Design 2020

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Jordan Parvex

Postwar Posters

Postwar Posters is an original art catalog featuring four Japanese design masters from Japan’s Postwar period, aligned with Jilly Tranagou’s article, "Tokyo’s 1964 Olympic Design as a Realm of Design Memory" to lend context to that era's politics and culture. Central to the book is the concept of (...)

Tripti Malve

Chitra Kala

Chitra Kala translates to “the art of visuals”. This is a digital archive that comprises of advertisements that were designed from the 1950’s up until the 90’s in India. These were a result of the Swadeshi Movement that happened during the fight for freedom, encouraging the nation to use locally mad (...)

Carly Bayroff

In Current Formation

In Current Formation is a book about the world’s most influential practicing architects, written by architectural journalists. This book cuts the world’s greatest and most provocative practicing planners down to size and serves as an introduction to the world’s most influential living architects. (...)

Danny Getz

A Life Force: Constructs of Nature

This project, A Life Force: Constructs of Nature, was designed to be a mock piece for an art exhibition. The artist selected is David Bakalar, who is also my grandfather. The design, like his artwork, follows a very clean and strict system.

Maria Luiza Scheidemantel

D+NP

Nonprofit organizations are places where like-minded people work together to support good causes; a nonprofit transforms shared beliefs and hopes into actions, gives a more solid shape to a noble cause and assists in economic growth. D+NP is a nonprofit organization/studio that aims to help other no (...)

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Object-ive

Object-ive is a series of miniature booklets that explores the creative processes of various artists by examining them through the lens of a tool key to the practice. The project took shape as a manifestation of a semester-long investigation into how concrete objects can ground us and help in proces (...)

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Beautiful Ache

Our emotions and deepest fears are often a closed book. This project navigates mental health and self-expression through fragments, quotes, and illustrations by Sylvia Plath, Walt Whitman, and William F. Draper. Their ideas, quotes, and creative expressions became a lens to see my own thoughts and (...)

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Jake Berstein

Furniture For a Lockdown

After a summer of protesting for racial justice and quarantining for Covid 19, my final semester at Parsons was carried out completely online. My world had shrunk to the size of a small Queens apartment. Going about my days in online class rotating between my bed, my desk, the couch, and the toilet, (...)

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Yi Chen

2017-2020

People tend to pay attention to tangible things, like a wound on one's face, while intangible things are easily neglected, like mental health or abusive words. Most of the time, perpetrators forget what they said or did quickly, and the victims suffer their trauma for many years. To change this unf (...)

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Yianni Tzitzifas

L'Officiel Spring 2020 Issue

L'Officiel Spring 2020 Issue covers content curation, layout design and ideation.

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Aimée Jade

Aesthetic Empathy

Empathy is described as understanding another individual’s experience, but the English word ‘empathy’ originated from the German word Einfühlung, meaning an aesthetic ability to appreciate objects and nature. Aesthetic empathy is an experience similar to watching a sunset. One might enjoy a beautif (...)

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Alina Gregorian

Barev Azizam

*Barev Azizam* explores Persian words that have been incorporated into the Persian-Armenian dialect. The project looks at the in-betweenness of language; translation that doesn’t always help with understanding; and how language evolves and influences a culture. Barev means “hello” in Armenian and az (...)

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Beth Cronvich

Music, Emotions, & Synesthesia

Music. It inspires art. It elicits emotions. It is a sensory experience. I listen to music to have an effect on my emotions and to encourage creativity. “Music doesn’t only evoke emotions at the individual level, but also at the interpersonal and intergroup level. Listeners mirror their reactions (...)

Elizabeth Starace

Ghosts of the Sea

On December 4th, 1872, Canadian brigantine *Dei Gratia* stumbled upon the *Mary Celeste* adrift and deserted off the Azores Islands. The cargo and belongings of those that had been onboard the *Mary Celeste* were untouched, forever frozen in time. Unbeknownst to the *Dei Gratia's* crew, this discove (...)

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Amanda Mei

Reimagine: Self

The artist’s book *Reimagine: Self* is an imaginary conversation with Carl Jung responding to his book *The Undiscovered Self* – a brilliant and searching inquiry into the dilemma of the individual in modern society. Carl Jung was one of the greatest psychologists in the last century and his book w (...)