AAS Communication Design 2020

Jaein Kim

Mariana Valverde

Maha Alameeri

Joseph Crosthwaite

Victoria Foster

Michele Cheng

Sarah Belay

Lauren Podhorzer

Clariley Martinez

Ana Caligiorne

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Fenestra: The vessel of light

Fenestra explores how windows, as vital mediators of light, shape human well-being in interior spaces. Since humans spend most of their time indoors—about 90% of the day on average, which is roughly 22 hours per day—windows act as thresholds between inside and outside, filtering light, air, and view (...)

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Jaein Kim

A Visual Archive of Early Immigrant Restaurants in Manhattan

This project traces the visual history of Manhattan’s early immigrant restaurants. Through preserved menus, photographs, and signage, it explores how design functioned as a language of identity and belonging. These everyday visual materials reveal how immigrant communities expressed themselves while (...)

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Lauren Podhorzer

This Bird Has Flown

This Bird Has Flown is a print and web based educational field guide. It aims to bring awareness to endangered bird species of Long Island and ways in which people can take action. In each of the ten chapters, I identify birds that are most threatened or at risk and assess how best to educate and sp (...)

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Giver: An archive and critique of gifting

Giver is a speculative design project that reimagines gifting as an emotional interface shaped by memory, intention, and relational nuance. In a digital world where giving often feels transactional or performative, this project explores how receiver-centered design can restore intimacy and care to t (...)

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Maha Alameeri

Corporate Dreams

Built as a cultural and visual record of workplace disillusionment, Corporate Dreams is an accumulation of film stills, memes, screenshots, quotes, timelines, and research fragments that map how the corporate dream eroded into irony, burnout, and cynicism. From Office Space, Succession, Severance, a (...)

Sarah Belay

Cultural Overlays: Visual tensions in African life

This project explores how Western cultural exports, such as Coca-Cola branding or American streetwear, are absorbed and recontextualized within Sub-Saharan African countries. Through found photography and collage, it documents the visual reality of globalization and the unequal flow of global cultur (...)

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Victoria Foster

Beyond The Filter

This research examines women’s beauty standards in a digital age, looking at a time period from the 1950s to now with a focus on the 2010s to present day. From the 2010s onwards, social media and other digital influences began to play a dominant role in shaping society’s definition of beauty. By loo (...)

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The Value in Values: Meditations on color

This project explores how we see and use color, and why we're often afraid of it. Western culture has long treated color as something secondary, tacky, or even dangerous. Most of us gravitate toward neutrals, blacks, whites, and grays, relegating bright hues to children's toys or to being "too much. (...)

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Tracing Blue: From pigment to pixel

Tracing Blue: From Pigment to Pixel is a hand-bound artist's book that investigates how color moves from physical pigment into standardized digital systems, and how those histories continue to shape the way designers use and interpret color today. The project approaches blue not as decoration but as (...)

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Michele Cheng

Reframing Schizophrenia

This project is an exploration of schizophrenic artists, featuring Richard Dadd, Yayoi Kusama, Agnes Martin, Aloïse Corbaz, and Louis Wain. These artists demonstrate how their institutionalization and diagnoses shaped their artistic practices, transforming mental difference into distinctive visual l (...)