This fall semester grad project looked at examining food culture in North America and how it affects young adults. The food industry has become a large part of modern culture, primarily concerned with profit over consumer health. Advertising plays a large role in most peoples’ relationship with food without them even realizing it and government does little to regulate the influence of the industry on consumers. It is especially important for young adults to be aware of these issues, as they...
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2011This team project with Tenna Jacobsen, Mette Nielsen, Vaibhav Pawar, Steph Steele, and Timo de Winter was done for the International DesignCamp 2011 hosted by the Kolding School of Design in Denmark. The camp invites students from a broad range of international backgrounds and design disciplines to work together on design problems. This years theme was “From intangible to tangible. From tangible to wonderful.” focused on the problem of electricity consumption.
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2011This monograph was designed for a self directed project in print publication. The only requirement for this project was to create a book on a single subject of your choosing. I chose to create a retrospective of the decade between 1940 and 1950 through the personal photographs of the people who lived it, my grandparents, Daniel and Beatrice Clark. An incredibly tumultuous decade historically and personally for the Clarks, they were married in 1943, separated by war from 1944 through to 1946...
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2011This project was a re-design of the popular poems from T.S. Eliot's Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats using typography to reflect the content and time in which it was written (1939) without the accompanying illustrations. The desired result was to create a children’s book for adults. Due to the challenging language of the poetry, it would be most likely that a parent would read it to their child and not vice versa. Therefore, it made sense to create a more sophisticated...
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2011This typographic exercise was intended to examine context and challenge our associations with established ways of visualizing content. The directive was to select written content from a well known source and visualize it in an entirely different context “breaking the seal” of what the viewer would expect to see. For this project I chose to use an article from The Beaver (now Canada’s History Magazine) on England and France’s struggle for dominance in the new world and re-...
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2011This team project, with Katie Blank and Tia Blunden, for Vancouver Coastal Health, was intended to help boost hand hygiene compliance among hospital staff and visitors alike. The concept for the campaign centers around the idea of implying a physical barrier between the hospital and the outside world implying that the former is clean and the latter... not so much. When people enter the hospital, they cross a blue line that reminds them to “Clean Before You Cross” with sanitization stations...
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2009This project was designed to develop our understanding of visual language by creating a photographic series on a topic of our choosing and a sequence that captures the process of creating that series. For my series I decided to try to capture the emotional connections of longing, memory and nostalgia, associated with inanimate objects, in this case, a collection of Royal Doulton figurines that belonged to my grandmother. I had originally planned to photograph their faces in the style of...
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2008The goal of this project was to select an object from one of the essays in Sherry Turkle’s book, Evocative Objects, and re-imagine it as a new object which function becomes a metaphor for the evocative qualities of its original form. I chose “The Radio” an object evocative for author Julian Beinart because of the little boy who made it. Constructed solely from scraps that the little boy found in the streets of Durban in South Africa, Beinart sees in this object the hope and...