AAS Communication Design 2020

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Melissa Yee Ting Tang1

Melissa Yee Ting Tang

Rebrand: Harlem Train Schedule

**Research** The objective of the project is to redesign the Harlem line train schedule. The original design, which is shown above, is harsh on the eyes and confusing for new passengers. I reorganized all the information and decided to separate the schedule from its various departure locations. The (...)

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Daniela Pollandt1

Daniela Pollandt

Insecta Rebranding

Sustainability is a concept that focuses on the needs of today without compromising future generations and their needs. Insecta is a brand designed to help the environment and prevent the torture and killing of animals for their fur or skin. This project is the rebranding of a Peruvian sustainable v (...)

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Julia Winkler

Ode to Brooklyn Ironwork

Fences, gates, fire escapes, and window coverings in neighborhoods along the Brooklyn/Queens border are often heavily stylized with ornate steel- and ironwork. This decorative infrastructure creates an expansive, distinctive visual system that serves as a strong emblem of the area for those familiar (...)

Olivia Weissflog1

Olivia Weissflog

Her Own Distinct Self

In the Middle Ages, the term “spinster” referred to women who spun thread for a living. These craftswomen were remarkable in their ability to support themselves at a time when women were generally limited to roles of mother, wife, or nun. A growing portion of women today are choosing to stay single (...)

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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 (...)

Allison Kobren Allen1

Allison Kobren Allen

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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Jamie Soohoo

Breaking Bread

*Breaking Bread* is a self-exploration of data storytelling and the ways in which I choose to represent different types of information. Starting with a research question of how sharing food connects people, I gathered data surrounding the topic of sharing food. Through a survey of 20 individuals, da (...)

Clariley Martinez1

Clariley Martinez

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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Karla Gruss

Uncanny Algorithms

Uncanny Algorithms explores the intersection of artificial intelligence, human identity, and the eerie distortions that emerge from their entanglement. This research-driven project interrogates the failures and malfunctions of generative AI, leveraging its dysfunctions to create surreal, fragmented (...)

Alexarae Vega

Human Centered Design - Self Direction Services

The concept was to create an Identity for Self-Direction. Self-Direction is a Medicaid waiver program outlined on the New York State Office of People with Developmental Disabilities (OPWDD) website. This is an up-and-coming program that is rapidly gaining attention within the developmentally disab (...)

Victoria Foster1

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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Emily Goldner

Ivory Phantasms and Alien Pleasures

Inspired by the Welsh term *hiraeth*—a deep, melancholic longing or homesickness for a place, person, or time that may not exist or is no longer within reach—Ivory Phantasms and Alien Pleasures traces the cyclical nature of desire and illusion: how our efforts to satisfy our longings blur the thresh (...)

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