AAS Communication Design 2020

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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 (...)

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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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 (...)

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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Michelle Lupo

Hoboken Shelter Re-Branding

Having worked at a non-profit and done a great deal of volunteer work, I have seen how hard it can be to build awareness in a community and get people to consistently donate their time or efforts to a cause. I have volunteered at The Hoboken Sheltermany times, and have seen the great services it pro (...)

Mekea Larson

Sextant Perfume

SEXTANT: Branding + Custom Logotype The ‘Sextant’ logo is my own original, custom-made logotype. Sextant is a genderless, inclusive and tongue-in-cheek perfume brand steeped in history. It is based on West Street, and evokes the youthful freewheeling of 1900s longshoremen, 1970s cruising and 1980s a (...)

Leia Carter

Ultra Machina

"ULTRA MACHINA is a speculative “choose your own adventure” hypertext game that explores the concepts of fate and free will by challenging users to change the endings of stories they already know. Inspired by the ""deus ex machina"" literary device, the game’s first iteration retreads the familiar (...)

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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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Lauren Kim

Over Here, Over There

Over Here, Over There is a publication that chronicles life in Manhattan through a series of interviews and photography conducted in Alphabet City. Following the six degrees of separation theory, each interviewee is connected to the previous one through associations, creating a web of interconnected (...)

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 (...)