AAS Communication Design 2020

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Jennifer Wang

Familiar Strangers

Familiar Strangers is a reflection on family history through my father’s archive of old photographs. I chose to engage with this archive to discover familiar connections by creating visual forms to the process of reconnecting. The project is a response to my upbringing without grandparental relatio (...)

Mari Hosho

Traveler’s Collage

Traveler's Collage"" started in 2010 when I was accepted into an exchange program to study at a university in the Netherlands. As someone from a country surrounded by the sea, one of the most exciting things was to travel to another country by road trip. At the time, I was a student with no money to (...)

Chris Barrett

Memory in Mind

This is an exploration of memory. It is divided into three sections: Place, Time, and Perspective. Through each of these phases the themes of vividness and articulation became more consistent. These two words take on a life force of their own and work in tandem and are at odds with one another. They (...)

Sophie Ashton

Digital Nostalgia

Nostalgia is all around us. It is in the TV shows we watch, the clothing we wear, the branding we see and the products that are sold to us. References to the past are strategically placed everywhere in our media to bring on an emotional response. *Digital Nostalgia* is a book that explores the impa (...)

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Annachiara Maffezzoli

Travel Memories

This project is a travel book collection based on photographs captured during some of the most impactful journeys I had through the years. With these publications I wanted to convey a genuine point of view of what my experiences were and extract from my own family photo archive a story of people, co (...)

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Fernanda Penfold

Seeing Then, Looking Now

Seeing Then, Looking Now addresses the importance of reflecting on the past to understanding the present. It is a three-part project through which I examined my political, social and personal histories as a way of exploring how design can be used to build structures that help us form connections. M (...)

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Mekea Larson

Sextant Perfume

SEXTANT: Branding + Custom Logotype The ‘Sextant’ logo is my own original, custom-made logotype. Sextant is a genderless, inclusive and tongue-in-cheek perfume brand steeped in history. It is based on West Street, and evokes the youthful freewheeling of 1900s longshoremen, 1970s cruising and 1980s a (...)

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 (...)

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Keren Mevorach

Eggsploration

Eggs. They’re often viewed as mundane objects. But oddly enough, they can be near and dear to our hearts. I’ve had many experiences and memories associated with eggs throughout my life. I noticed that without even realizing it, eggs have been my muse for quite some time. It might be related to feeli (...)

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Heewon Yum

Duality

My capstone project is making a book about ""Duality"", and through my experiences which show that nothing is good if excessive. The content of the book explains the five addictions I experienced. And to describe ""Duality,"" I put my pictures and listed descriptions of good things and bad things ab (...)

Jia Cheng Wang

Lost Heritage

In New Zealand, historical sites are frequently targeted for rapid urbanization through the vehicle of demolishment. Lost Heritage is an interactive exhibition about the demolition of historic sites in New Zealand. 15 200-piece wooden puzzles of New Zealand’s different neighborhoods would be place (...)

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