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VIA MAGAZINE May 2011 Designed for a young, budget-conscious audience, this travel magazine allows its readers to “take the road less traveled� on short vacations across the United States. The personal and tactile quality of the magazine relates to the individual experiences that young adults want to encounter in their lives.
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High Line Map
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CHELSEA PARK
Phone calls and visitors and, yes, dreams
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from around the world are pouring into the CHELSEA WATERSIDE PARK
small offices of the Friends of the High Line on West 20th Street in Manhattan these days.
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Detroit is thinking big about an abandoned train station. Jersey City and Philadelphia
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have defunct railroad beds, and Chicago has old train tracks that don’t look like much now, but maybe they too... The High Line’s success as an elevated park, its improbable evolution from old trestle into glittering urban amenity, has motivated a whole host of public officials and city planners to consider or revisit efforts to convert relics from their own industrial pasts into potential economic engines.
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14th Street Entry Washington Grasslands
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With you at every elevation.
GENERATIONAL GREENS August 2010 Advocating for grandmother’s in Kenya, this poster represents the efforts made by Comfort the Children International to teach these women how to garden so they may feed their grandchildren whose parents have died from HIV/AIDS.
DISCOVERY Spring 2011 Hand printed on a letterpress machine, Discovery, explores the knowledge gained going from point A to point B in life. By looking at the growth of life through different aspects, this book appeals to multiple audiences.
SEUSSICAL Spring 2010 Designed for the Coterie Theater in Kansas City, these posters reflect the child-like quality of Dr. Seuss for the musical Seussical. This class consisted of hand-picked students to work with real clients to create designs that will be displayed in Kansas City for their children’s theater.
GLORIOUS TO VIEW March 2011 Created for the Spencer Museum of Art on the University of Kansas campus, this historical 3’ X 4’ board communicates a university building that has now been destroyed. The board emphasizes the movement and life of this building through different elements like a timeline.
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GLORIOUS TO VIEW A name culled from the beloved KU Alma Mater song presents an array of artworks from the Spencer Museum and archive materials from the Spencer Research Library to share the history of the KU campus. The four focal sites that are featured in the exhibition were chosen based on their importance in the life of the campus and the dynamic ways that they have been depicted by both artists and photographers. North College | Creator: E. S. Tucker | c. 1890 | University Archives | Kenneth Spencer Research Library | University of Kansas
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John T. Moore | Old North College | 1918 | watercolor on paper | Source unknown, 0000.0564
Streeter Blair | KU's First Morning in 1866 | 1958 | oil on canvas | Museum purchase, 1958.0130
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Hess, James | View of Old North College | 1875 | oil on canvas | Friends of the Art Museum, 1967.0065
North College | c. 1900 | University Archives Kenneth Spencer Research Library | University of Kansas
Glorious to View | KU Campus Heritage Project
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The First Building (North College) | 1867 | University Archives | Kenneth Spencer Research Library | University of Kansas
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Old North College, originally called Free State College, was the first academic
The way that a place can be shaped in memory and in structure is eloquently
building to stand on Mount Oread. The building was constructed in 1856, and stood
demonstrated by the artistic representations of Old North College in the Spencer
at the northernmost crest of the hill, looking out over what is now downtown
Museum of Art collection, coupled with photographs of the building from the
Lawrence. Its two-story Italianate structure was influenced by the burgeoning
Spencer Research Library. These document both the artists’ perception of the
American interest in European architectural forms. Old North College survived the
building as a shining acropolis atop Mt. Oread, representing hope for Kansans
troubles that beset Kansas during the Civil War years, including William Quantrill’s
who were still reeling from the violence of the Civil War era, and also the physical
disastrous raid on Lawrence in 1863. After peace returned, the college that had been
life cycle of the building. While paintings by Streeter Blair and James Hess echo
founded independently by abolitionist settlers from Massachusetts became the first
the depiction of a “beacon on the hill” seen in early photographs of Old North
incarnation of the University of Kansas when the legislature decided that Kansas
College, photographs from the early 20th century and a watercolor by John T.
needed a bastion of learning and culture to stand as a beacon amid the destruction
Moore document the physical deterioration and eventual demolition of the
and loss that the nation had suffered. Old North College continued to function as an
building. This case study underscores the tension between a site as it exists in
academic building through the late 19th century. However, it began to slowly decay
memory and art and its physicality and mutability.
during the first decades of the 20th century, and it was finally demolished in 1918.
[...] IT BEGAN TO SLOWLY DECAY DURING THE FIRST DECADES OF THE 20TH CENTURY, AND IT WAS FINALLY DEMOLISHED IN 1918.
ARRANGING FLOWERS March 2011 Book redesign for Sunset Books Publication, Arranging Flowers from you Garden targets a middle class audience that want a book that will teach DIY techniques for gardening and cutting flowers. The informal, personal aspects of the design allow the reader to relate to the content and feel capable of mastering gardening skills.
ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz 0123456789 LONELY October 2010 Inspired by the word lonely, this designed font represents the solitary feeling that people experience daily. The font is kerned to look as if the letters are separated from each other. There is one main font and then a secondary font that can be substituted in for specific letters, which will be more separated from the rest of the words.
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Canterbury House 6:30p.m.
Canterbury House 5:30 p.m. Canterbury House is a place where people get together to discuss and question beliefs of God. We are constantly learning and growing in our faith and we want you to join. We welcome anyone and everyone who wants to have a safe environment where you can speak freely and openly on what you believe. Come and meet us.
www.canterburyhouse.com
CANTERBURY HOUSE March 2010 Designed for a ministry club on the University of Kansas campus, these posters highlight the laid back, informal quality of the group who reach out to many parts of the community through different activities that are held at their ministry house.
http://www.canterburyhouse.com
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Using Bloom’s Taxonomy and AIGA’s Five Competencies, this project is designed to showcase the skills that have been acquired throughout the last six semesters at the
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University of Kansas Visual Communication program through the many projects that shape the curriculum.
Knowledge Knowledge is defined as being able to recall data or information.
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Analysis separates material or concepts into component parts so that its organizational structure may be understood. Distinguishes between facts and inferences.
Comprehension is to understand the meaning, translation, interpolation, and interpretation of instructions and problems. State a problem in one's own words.
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Business An understanding of basic business practices, including the ability to organize design projects and to work productively as a member of teams.
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Problem Solving The ability to solve communication problems, including the skills of problem identification, research and information gathering
Froebel Gifts FROEBEL GIFTS November 2011 Rebranding a toy company with an important history, the goal was to incorporate personal connections with the products to the children they teach. Froebel offers an alternative solution for teaching creative thinking, that is highlighted with a design concept based on “natural curiosity.�
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