Anmol Rao
Typography 3
(junior year)
Rhode Island School of Design
2021
Official Audio
18x24" static poster
plus corresponding kinetic interpretation
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Project title:
Fixed & in Flux
Project duration:
4 weeks
Project prompt:
Working with the restraints of black & white form and open source typography, students created two typographic posters for a fictional concert: one which is fixed (printed) and one in flux (motion).
Typography 3
(junior year)
Rhode Island School of Design
2021
Official Audio
18x24" static poster
plus corresponding kinetic interpretation
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Project title:
Fixed & in Flux
Project duration:
4 weeks
Project prompt:
Working with the restraints of black & white form and open source typography, students created two typographic posters for a fictional concert: one which is fixed (printed) and one in flux (motion).
Jada Postadan
Degree Project
(senior year)
Rhode Island School of Design
2021
Missunderstood
installation, letterpress, publication design, video, web design
(view description & full body of work)
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Advisor role:
In Degree Project, students define an area of inquiry/research, and over the course of a semester produce a body of work stemming from this defined area. Faculty serve as an advisor, helping refine the projects and position the work within the contemporary context.
Degree Project
(senior year)
Rhode Island School of Design
2021
Missunderstood
installation, letterpress, publication design, video, web design
(view description & full body of work)
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Advisor role:
In Degree Project, students define an area of inquiry/research, and over the course of a semester produce a body of work stemming from this defined area. Faculty serve as an advisor, helping refine the projects and position the work within the contemporary context.
Sharlene Deng
Typography 3
(junior year)
Rhode Island School of Design
2021
Beginnings
5x8", 32 pages laser print edition of 4
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Project title:
Contain
Project duration:
4 weeks
Project prompt:
Using a complex text of the their choosing, students developed a complex contemporary typographic system to be first implemented in print, followed by web (see following project, Expand).
Typography 3
(junior year)
Rhode Island School of Design
2021
Beginnings
5x8", 32 pages laser print edition of 4
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Project title:
Contain
Project duration:
4 weeks
Project prompt:
Using a complex text of the their choosing, students developed a complex contemporary typographic system to be first implemented in print, followed by web (see following project, Expand).
Sharlene Deng
Typography 3
(junior year)
Rhode Island School of Design
2021
Beginnings
desktop & mobile site design (view site)
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Project title:
Expand
Project duration:
4 weeks
Project prompt:
Using the typographic system developed in the previous project (see project above, Contain) students dynamically expanded their system for desktop and mobile web design.
Typography 3
(junior year)
Rhode Island School of Design
2021
Beginnings
desktop & mobile site design (view site)
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Project title:
Expand
Project duration:
4 weeks
Project prompt:
Using the typographic system developed in the previous project (see project above, Contain) students dynamically expanded their system for desktop and mobile web design.
Bryson Lee
Design Studio 1
(sophomore year)
Rhode Island School of Design
2020
Alphabet specimen
10x8” display
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Project title:
Breeding Shapes
Project duration:
2 weeks
Project prompt:
Using prescribed steps of a generative process, students used microscopic imagery to generate a library of forms, which they developed and refined into an alphabet.
(Process images on following slides)
Design Studio 1
(sophomore year)
Rhode Island School of Design
2020
Alphabet specimen
10x8” display
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Project title:
Breeding Shapes
Project duration:
2 weeks
Project prompt:
Using prescribed steps of a generative process, students used microscopic imagery to generate a library of forms, which they developed and refined into an alphabet.
(Process images on following slides)
Gabi Stadulis
Systems in Design
(junior year)
Virginia Commonwealth
University
2018
26x40”
sharpie, lenox paper,
custom stencil
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Project title:
Graphic Assemblages
Project duration:
5 weeks
Project prompt:
Students developed a toolkit of forms pulled from prior Microsoft Excel drafting experiments. These formal experiments were then designed and laser cut into stencils, used to draft a poster which exhausted a grid and system. Students across two sections then spent two weeks designing an exhibition to display their posters and process, titled ⌘C ⌘V: An Excelstencil Crisis
(Exhibtion images on following slides)
Systems in Design
(junior year)
Virginia Commonwealth
University
2018
26x40”
sharpie, lenox paper,
custom stencil
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Project title:
Graphic Assemblages
Project duration:
5 weeks
Project prompt:
Students developed a toolkit of forms pulled from prior Microsoft Excel drafting experiments. These formal experiments were then designed and laser cut into stencils, used to draft a poster which exhausted a grid and system. Students across two sections then spent two weeks designing an exhibition to display their posters and process, titled ⌘C ⌘V: An Excelstencil Crisis
(Exhibtion images on following slides)
Jill Kosofsky
Introduction to Design Communication
Roger Williams University
2020
Stop Coral Bleaching
18x24”
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Project title:
The More You Know
(PSA Posters)
Project duration:
3 weeks
Project prompt:
After selecting a PSA topic of their choosing and defining an audience, students designed a poster to informs and persuades on their chosen message.
Introduction to Design Communication
Roger Williams University
2020
Stop Coral Bleaching
18x24”
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Project title:
The More You Know
(PSA Posters)
Project duration:
3 weeks
Project prompt:
After selecting a PSA topic of their choosing and defining an audience, students designed a poster to informs and persuades on their chosen message.
Class-wide collaboration
Print II (junior year)
Virginia Commonwealth University
2019
Sight, Site, Cite (Publishing Fair)
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Project title:
Sight Site Cite
Project duration:
7 weeks
Project prompt:
Using the fair title Sight Site Cite as the thematic, students used publishing as a platform to bring content, community, and concerns into view. Work was made under students’ self-developed publishing imprint, and all content was derived from their imprint’s defined mission statement.
Students were required to create an imprint marker, a takeaway, and three editioned works to table at their fair.
Print II (junior year)
Virginia Commonwealth University
2019
Sight, Site, Cite (Publishing Fair)
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Project title:
Sight Site Cite
Project duration:
7 weeks
Project prompt:
Using the fair title Sight Site Cite as the thematic, students used publishing as a platform to bring content, community, and concerns into view. Work was made under students’ self-developed publishing imprint, and all content was derived from their imprint’s defined mission statement.
Students were required to create an imprint marker, a takeaway, and three editioned works to table at their fair.
Angelika Kremens
Introduction to Design Communication
Roger Williams University
2020
Stranded in New Zeland
set of 10 vector icons
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Project title:
Remember When
Project duration:
3 weeks
Project prompt:
Students created a set of at least 6 graphically cohesive icons depicting the events of a memorable day from their past.
Introduction to Design Communication
Roger Williams University
2020
Stranded in New Zeland
set of 10 vector icons
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Project title:
Remember When
Project duration:
3 weeks
Project prompt:
Students created a set of at least 6 graphically cohesive icons depicting the events of a memorable day from their past.
Jessica Liebers
Visual Narrative
(junior year)
Virginia Commonwealth University
2019
How to Grow
3 minutes 51 seconds
(view video)
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Project title:
For You, For Me, For We: How To...
Project duration:
6 weeks
Project prompt:
Students were tasked
with creating a conceptual “how-to” video, with a point-of-view or subtext beyond the utilitarian function of a traditional “how-to” video.
Visual Narrative
(junior year)
Virginia Commonwealth University
2019
How to Grow
3 minutes 51 seconds
(view video)
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Project title:
For You, For Me, For We: How To...
Project duration:
6 weeks
Project prompt:
Students were tasked
with creating a conceptual “how-to” video, with a point-of-view or subtext beyond the utilitarian function of a traditional “how-to” video.
Jesse MacKenzie
Methods & Processes
(sophomore year)
Virginia Commonwealth University
2019
New
8.5x11”
500 pages
newsprint, sewing
machine-stitched pages
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Project title:
Speculative Spaces
Book
Project duration:
Research – 2 weeks
Design – 2 weeks
Project prompt:
Using a randomly generated word as the seed for an extensive research process, students then used their research to cultivate content for a speculative society. The book format was employed to explore in-depth aspects of their societies.
(Produced in tandem with Speculative Spaces Video)
Methods & Processes
(sophomore year)
Virginia Commonwealth University
2019
New
8.5x11”
500 pages
newsprint, sewing
machine-stitched pages
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Project title:
Speculative Spaces
Book
Project duration:
Research – 2 weeks
Design – 2 weeks
Project prompt:
Using a randomly generated word as the seed for an extensive research process, students then used their research to cultivate content for a speculative society. The book format was employed to explore in-depth aspects of their societies.
(Produced in tandem with Speculative Spaces Video)
Jesse MacKenzie
Methods & Processes
(sophomore year)
Virginia Commonwealth University
2019
New Job
1 minute 59 seconds
(view video)
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Project title:
Speculative Spaces
Video
Project duration:
Research – 2 weeks
Design – 2 weeks
Project prompt:
Using a randomly generated word as the seed for an extensive research process, students then used their research to cultivate content for a speculative society. The video format was used to explore a narrative thread of their societies.
(Produced in tandem with Speculative Spaces Book)
Methods & Processes
(sophomore year)
Virginia Commonwealth University
2019
New Job
1 minute 59 seconds
(view video)
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Project title:
Speculative Spaces
Video
Project duration:
Research – 2 weeks
Design – 2 weeks
Project prompt:
Using a randomly generated word as the seed for an extensive research process, students then used their research to cultivate content for a speculative society. The video format was used to explore a narrative thread of their societies.
(Produced in tandem with Speculative Spaces Book)
