exhibition poster
[printed with support from College Of Fine Arts, Boston University by The Color Company]
Design Statement
Graphic design is an ever-evolving discipline that lives and operates within an expansive territory of visual communication. Its expression and role can be defined by the relationship between visual form, content, and meaning. Its media and forms can range from (although not confined to) books to websites, typefaces to visual identity systems, posters to exhibitions. Rather than attempting to define the boundaries of the discipline, Sophomore Graphic Design Studio provided a space for students to experiment, discover, and apply their interests to develop a foundation for their personal voice and approach.
The work in this space is a collection of explorations by the thirty-three students in the Sophomore Graphic Design Studio. Through weekly exercises, lectures, projects, and reviews, students engaged with a range of materials, techniques, and processes. Emphasis was placed on form-making and typography using generative and iterative methods to explore new subject matter, tools, and media. Throughout the course of the semester, students combined, deconstructed, reassembled, manipulated, and reconsidered their process to build a body of work for mapping individual territory. Almost a 100 days students researched, explored, and attempted to figure out the ideas behind rigorous form, exploring concepts of transformation through design. Forms that are considered ordinary were deconstructed, reassembled, reformed and redesigned in a new way unique and extraordinary fertilized by the individual vision of each designer.
