ABSTRACTED, 2018
Abstracted is a workshop that was facilitated at Pratt Institute in their senior design class.
Students were tasked with finding an open source type face and creating writing based on its qualities.
This writing was then translated into visual narratives and uploaded on a shared blog. For more examples click here.
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Font: Beauty School Dropout
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Font: Bubble3D by Vladimir Nikcolic
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ANALOG IMAGE MAKING, 2018
Using principles of design and composition, students worked with one chosen material to create fifty analog images.
Before starting the project, students worked through writing prompts to establish deeper relational
understanding of their chosen material and their interest in image making.
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Hannah Concepcion, Sophomore, Virginia Commonwealth University: Design Tech, 2018
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Dynique Moore, Sophomore, Virginia Commonwealth University: Design Tech, 2018
DIGITAL TEXTURE
Using the fifty the images created in the Analog Image project, students were asked to refine twenty-six of their strongest
composition's and edit them in photoshop. This challenge students to consider foreground, background, and color.
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Ricardo Ortix, Sophomore, Virginia Commonwealth University: Design Tech, 2018
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Alicia Kim, Sophomore, Virginia Commonwealth University: Design Tech, 2018
Type Integration
Focusing on negative space and visual balance, students were tasked with taking the twenty-six letters of the alphabet
and integrating each letter into an individual composition. The goal was to integrate these letters
in as an tool of emphasizing the strength of the established composition.
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Emma Umberger, Sophomore, Virginia Commonwealth University: Design Tech, 2018
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Joy Westkaemper, Sophomore, Virginia Commonwealth University: Design Tech, 2018
Fold Down Zine
This project served as a culmination of projects through out the class. Students were challenged with creating a
visual system that considered hierarchy and format. Working with a fold down zine, they considered the duality of their
piece as a zine and poster. The zine showcased a refined piece of writing about their personal visual
aesthetic, in context with the progression they made throughout the semester.
Hye Kang, Sophomore, Virginia Commonwealth University: Design Tech, 2018
Samm Truitt, Sophomore, Virginia Commonwealth University: Design Tech, 2018
Jessie Mackenzie, Sophomore, Virginia Commonwealth University: Design Tech, 2018
Material Compositions & Curation
Students split up into groups and collect 200 photographic compositions: fifty monochromatic images, fifty cool tone images,
and fifty warm tone images and fifty images that include typography. Each group was then tasked to curate three five by ten gridded compositions, using their collected photos. They were challenged to create connections using sequencing. motion, rhythm
and leading lines. The last phase of this project was to wheat paste their strongest composition as a team.
Virginia Commonwealth University: Summer Intensive, 2018
Motion Graphics
Students choose three existing material compositions, that they refined in photoshop. The prompt given during the phase was to explore how they could use highlights, shadows, depth and a lack of depth to strengthen the pre-existing sight lines and compositions.
Students then crafted a single sentence narrative to create gifs that had a minimum of twenty layers.
Vectored Visual Narratives
Students were broken up into groups and tasked to create visual narratives. Each student worked
on an individual 18 x24 vectorized poster. They then incorporated text into each poster.
Celina Bolanos, Betsy Kinstle, Lucas Lee, Josh Guinn, Virginia Commonwealth University: Summer Intensive, 2018
Ben Wood, Georgia Svoboda, Elizabeth Wyrick, Eric Couture, Virginia Commonwealth University: Summer Intensive, 2018
Manifesto Project