CD Studio II: Connecting History — Massimo Vignelli

The goal of this project is to do research on an influential designer of our own choosing and ultimately capturing the essence of their life and their work through 3 spreads in print and a website. My writing of Massimo’s biography can be…

CD Studio II: Massimo Vignelli — A Biography

He demanded simplicity, believed in timelessness, and practiced elegance. Living…

[FHNW] Week 2: Poster Design

This week, we are working on a poster design project with Leander Einsenmann. The purpose of the poster is to promote a fictional book exhibition called “Life Size” for Eric Tabuchi.

[FHNW] Week 4 — Time:Designed

This week, we’re starting another workshop with Gregory Vines and Ted Davis which focuses on the topic of time, motion, film, and moving imagery. To my surprise, we’re not using AE, nor p5js (but something similar that also works with processing…? Ted designed a software that…

CD Studio III: Paint the Pavement

Our studio professor Kristin Hughes introduced to this project by asking us to design a series of icons that conveyed the elements of a healthy community as a class. After completing the introductory phase of the project, we were given the real task: to create a…

CD Studio III: Lower 9 & 10

This new project that we are working is based on a special edition from the podcast, This American Life, that covers interviews with the residents of the Lower 9th Ward in New…

Digital Photo Imaging

In this class that we’re taking with Dylan Vitone, we’re learning how to use digital tools to manipulate images to build narratives. We are given prompts each week to create images that convey a certain narrative based on the prompts, which could vary from portraying a myth, to visually…

CD Studio IV: Reconfiguring Social Media

This semester — CD Studio 4 — will be taught by Kyuha Shim. The first project of our second semester junior communication design class concerns reconfiguring social media.

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