AAS Communication Design 2020

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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 (...)

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.

Becky Greubel

You (Collectively)

You (collectively) is an online space to encourage critical thinking about how we define ourselves. As you visit the page each day, you are asked a new, thought-provoking question, aiming to encourage deeper thought about how you think about yourself and others. Your response is added to a collectiv (...)

Maria Veliz

Engineering Baby

Our DNA is becoming as readable, writable, and hackable as our information technology. But as humanity starts reassembling the genetic code, the choices we make today will be part of this alarming genetic struggle. Scientists are developing ways to edit the DNA of tomorrow's children. Should they st (...)

Katerina Bakatselou

The Art of Living Together

Are you currently or have you in the past shared your home? According to the Pew Research Center, 31.9% of adults share their household with at least one adult with whom they do not have a romantic relationship and 59% of adults ages 18-44 live with an unmarried partner. Additionally, according to t (...)

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Leslie Kay Lim

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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Deborah Laban

Subway Seat

I created this photo essay to show the feelings we all share as a society. I based it on the subway because most people, no matter economic class or age, take the subway at some point here in New York. The subway is an equalizer--everyone sits in the same seats and everyone feels the same loneliness (...)

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Daniela Pollandt

Insecta Rebranding

Sustainability is a concept that focuses on the needs of today without compromising future generations and their needs. Insecta is a brand designed to help the environment and prevent the torture and killing of animals for their fur or skin. This project is the rebranding of a Peruvian sustainable v (...)

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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 (...)

Tanya Vulfson

Spudlery

Spudlery is spud cutlery: single-use utensils made from potato starch and soy oil. Plastic alternatives are a future-forward solution to our pollution problem. In fact, it's hard to imagine there was ever a time before plastic. That's why I created an identity for Spudlery inspired by the past—rubbe (...)

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Isabel Campbell

Reflect/Adoption

Reflect/adoption started off as a personal self-reflection on my adoption experience. After stumbling upon a handwritten note I wrote at age nine to my birth mother, I realized I have never taken the time to sit down and reflect on my adoption story. Over the past 24 years, I’ve accumulated memories (...)

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Thais Chu

Jardin Wine Label

Jardin is a concept project in which I have created a French label that specializes in refining wine to enhance naturally occurring floral aromas. My work intends to highlight each signature flower within their respective gardens throughout the collection. The identity is reversible to signify the n (...)