AAS Communication Design 2020

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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 (...)

Jennifer Wang

Familiar Strangers

Familiar Strangers is a reflection on family history through my father’s archive of old photographs. I chose to engage with this archive to discover familiar connections by creating visual forms to the process of reconnecting. The project is a response to my upbringing without grandparental relatio (...)

Karen Hartono

Love as a Verb

We all have different meanings for love, shaped by our culture, family, relationships, and experiences. My grandparents, for instance, express love through actions rather than words. My grandpa would pick me up from school, while my grandma would make sure I had eaten or cut some fruits for me. Whi (...)

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Annachiara Maffezzoli

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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Krisha Devang Mehta

Inner Balance

I designed a retreat center as a getaway for people who want a break from city life to delve into nature, to meditate, and to connect on a deeper level with themselves. The project required SketchUp, Lumion, and craft. There are seven chakra domes. Chakras are energy discs in the body, with each c (...)

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Wendie Wanhsiu Lee

Fusion: Cross Culture Palate

*Fusion: Cross Culture Palate* explores a cross-culture identity through food. Growing up as a third culture person, there has always been a struggle with identity and belonging. Food has always been a common ground when it came to connecting with both cultures. This book is a visual comparison of t (...)

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Mari Hosho

Traveler’s Collage

Traveler's Collage"" started in 2010 when I was accepted into an exchange program to study at a university in the Netherlands. As someone from a country surrounded by the sea, one of the most exciting things was to travel to another country by road trip. At the time, I was a student with no money to (...)