The concept for this app is to develop an iPad game for older children who may have delayed learning disabilities. The game is intended to be simple yet fun where the focus is on form as well as function. To play, the child picks the most logical task to be performed “before” or “after” the […]
The “Traveling Alphabet Book” is a collection of 26 alphabet postcards depicting organic and stencil shape cyanotype studies. It is bound in a handmade book with a double, Coptic stitching. The intent of this book is to travel and be used by others to create meaningful imagery with the cyanotype letters. Once documented, the images will […]
The concept for this book materialized after researching art therapy and the affect that coloring had on people with anxiety and depression. With the new popularity of the “coloring for adults” books, I was interested in creating something geared toward older teenagers and young adults; ages ranging from 15-22. With statistics of teen depression, anxiety, […]
Speech Therapy App Interface – Charissa Flagg The concept for this project was to create an app interface that would reiterate lessons learned during a speech therapy session. This app would allow parents to go back over activities with their child to have extra practice time outside of therapy sessions. I wanted to produce an […]
Earlier this week, MFA Candidate Brandon Vernon had a body of his work featured on MTV.com. This is a huge milestone in the career of a visual artist. Brandon went to the School of Visual Arts in New York for his undergrad, majoring in Traditional Animation. “I’ve worked on some fun animation shows, a music […]
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Designing For Dyslexia: Creating Course Material for the Dyslexic Student Dyslexia is a learning disability that causes difficulty in reading and in the decoding of words and sentences. It is difficult for those who do not have dyslexia to understand what it is like to struggle with reading and processing information. In order to create […]
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Safer 4 Cyclists This thesis work establishes Safer 4 Cyclists, a safety initiative consisting of a body of work of visual solutions and accompanying research that is not only beneficial to me personally, but to all cyclists, regardless of age, skill level, or reason for riding, be it recreational or for transportation. It is my […]
“The Good Neighbors” (Victory Yard) Project Graduate Student: Patrice Anderson Concept The project name comes from a 1975 BBC sitcom, “Good Neighbors” where a couple decide to become completely self-sufficient turning their yard, and their house, into a sustainable farm in the middle of suburbia. This anti-manicured lawns movement is to help promote the culture […]
Graduate Student: Michael Moore For this project I wanted to create an app that would help those who had been recently diagnosed with cancer. The app would take the users through the basic knowledge of cancer and then discuss type of cancer, treatments, and also locations for different cancer centers nationally and locally. Because of […]
Graduate Student: Joshua Benefield During the course of this semester, for our Design Studio course, we were tasked with creating our own projects, to address some need in society. This in and of itself was a welcome relief to the mundane task of just completing a given assignment. My chosen learning object was to have […]
