AAS Communication Design 2020

Dannis Fu

Heewon Yum

Caitlin Reilly

Denise Mylonakis

Nani Harakawa

Fernanda Penfold

Leslie Kay Lim

Sydney Zeldis

Allison Kobren Allen

Julia Sullivan

Abbey Dahl

Annachiara Maffezzoli

Denisa Denisa Haas

Nittika Mehra

Jia Cheng Wang

Isabel Campbell

Gabriel Smoller

Nikki Roxas

Yi Chen

Jake Berstein

Emily Bluedorn

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Fall 2020

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Abbey Dahl

200 BPM: A Human Powered Outdoor Exhibition

200 BPM is a human powered outdoor exhibition that highlights four women: Katherine Switzer, Marilyn Bevans, Wilma Rudolph, and Bobbi Gibbs, who courageously changed history so women could legally compete in running competitions. In the 1950s, 60s, and early 70s it was highly discouraged for women t (...)

Denise Mylonakis

Places to Sit

Places to sit is a lovingly curated collection of public city benches by Denise Mylonakis. Made for the people, by the people; each city bench is a blueprint of those who made it, where it's located and the people who sit on it. The project was inspired and began with Montreal’s bench variety and cr (...)

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Seeing Then, Looking Now

Seeing Then, Looking Now addresses the importance of reflecting on the past to understanding the present. It is a three-part project through which I examined my political, social and personal histories as a way of exploring how design can be used to build structures that help us form connections. M (...)

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In the Moment

It’s 2020, the middle of a pandemic. Due to the unknown future outcome, people feel scared and find themselves reevaluating their lives. They are not in control of anything happening outside their four walls, and with a lack of social interaction, they are getting more in touch with their inner selv (...)

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Travel Memories

This project is a travel book collection based on photographs captured during some of the most impactful journeys I had through the years. With these publications I wanted to convey a genuine point of view of what my experiences were and extract from my own family photo archive a story of people, co (...)

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Sydney Zeldis

Apocalypse Eventually

Apocalypse Eventually is an immensely personal and stylized rendering of my psyche, brought to you in the form of a non-traditional website. In summary, it is a non-functioning arcade containing three punny machines that lead to three different pages that continue to explore themes of pollution, mon (...)

Nani Harakawa

Objectivity

Objectivity is a series of work that express how my time at Parsons and experiences in 2020 (an unconventional year) have changed my perspective and understanding of what I find meaningful. They are deeper looks into details, explorations of passed over or tossed aside ideas and a celebration of the (...)

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Increasing Public Awareness of Swallowing Disorders: A visual and experiential approach

Dysphagia (difficulty swallowing) affects up to 15 million adults in the United States each year. Nevertheless, many are unaware of its existence and implications. My professional experience working with the dysphagia population has motivated me to consider ways to raise public awareness about this (...)

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Nikki Roxas

Tales from the Archipelago

Tales from the Archipelago is a print publication that aims to bring together the narratives and experiences of young Filipinos as they try to navigate through a new environment and culture in the United States. In light of this, one can say that finding a community is not always easy — with the tho (...)

Yi Chen

2017-2020

People tend to pay attention to tangible things, like a wound on one's face, while intangible things are easily neglected, like mental health or abusive words. Most of the time, perpetrators forget what they said or did quickly, and the victims suffer their trauma for many years. To change this unf (...)

Heewon Yum

Duality

My capstone project is making a book about ""Duality"", and through my experiences which show that nothing is good if excessive. The content of the book explains the five addictions I experienced. And to describe ""Duality,"" I put my pictures and listed descriptions of good things and bad things ab (...)

Jia Cheng Wang

Lost Heritage

In New Zealand, historical sites are frequently targeted for rapid urbanization through the vehicle of demolishment. Lost Heritage is an interactive exhibition about the demolition of historic sites in New Zealand. 15 200-piece wooden puzzles of New Zealand’s different neighborhoods would be place (...)

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Reflect/Adoption

Reflect/adoption started off as a personal self-reflection on my adoption experience. After stumbling upon a handwritten note I wrote at age nine to my birth mother, I realized I have never taken the time to sit down and reflect on my adoption story. Over the past 24 years, I’ve accumulated memories (...)

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Julia Sullivan

Manliness and Emotional Vulnerability

The American Psychological Association has warned that traditional masculine ideology is associated with adverse effects on mental and physical health. Men who adhere to masculine norms are more likely to have psychological problems such as depression, stress, body image problems, substance abuse, a (...)

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Jake Berstein

Furniture For a Lockdown

After a summer of protesting for racial justice and quarantining for Covid 19, my final semester at Parsons was carried out completely online. My world had shrunk to the size of a small Queens apartment. Going about my days in online class rotating between my bed, my desk, the couch, and the toilet, (...)

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Object-ive

Object-ive is a series of miniature booklets that explores the creative processes of various artists by examining them through the lens of a tool key to the practice. The project took shape as a manifestation of a semester-long investigation into how concrete objects can ground us and help in proces (...)

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Nittika Mehra

Mandala: The Sacred Circle

Mandalas are a cornerstone of Hindu and Buddhist culture. There is more to Mandala than what meets the eye. For this project, I decided to unfold the deeper meanings starting with designing a biographical mandala that represents my personality and life philosophy. I then went onto making a 3D model (...)

Emily Bluedorn

Poetry, Publishing & Process

For my capstone project, Poetry, Publishing & Process, I created a set of publications—using both print and digital media. In this process, I was able to experiment with a variety of publishing mechanisms. I love poetry because it manipulates language, creating evocative, interpretative text. By cho (...)

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Liminal Spaces

Liminal Spaces explores the discomfort of transition. My work started as an examination of the many diverse ways that Brooklynites use their stoops. I loved thinking about stoops as loosely definable moments of transition (from upstairs to downstairs, inside to outside, private to public, etc.), and (...)

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Dannis Fu

Intertidal

INTERTIDAL is a virtual exhibition that focuses on the natural objects found along the Hudson River during low tide hours. I want this exhibition to be my quiet yet poetic response to this consumerist society. It is crucial to rebuilding the ability to identify and appreciate materials and craftsm (...)

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Good Time Titles

Opening titles to the 2017 film Good Time by the Safdie Brothers. Designed to evoke the gritty and seedy atmosphere the Safdie's are known for, these titles take key elements from the film and abstract them from their original context to provide hints at what is to come. Music from the Good Time sco (...)

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