Graduate Student: Patrice Anderson Concept: The concept of this project is to address the culture of violence towards women in rural, economically depressed areas. Audience: The target audience is the women caught up in a mentally/physically abusive relationship. The secondary audience is the people who know of women in this situation. Visual Solution: The solution […]
Graduate Student: Michael Moore Project: Organic Unity App For this project we were to create a learning object. A description of a learning object would be a progression of steps that lead to an end result The concept for this project was to design an app that explained the basic fundamentals of design to new […]
Graduate Student: Michael Moore Project: Live Cancer Free : Posters and Video This project was not only my favorite but also the hardest. The concept was to create a series of posters that informed the public of the misconceptions of cancer. After reading some articles and creating a word association list the concept began to […]
MFA Candidate: Joshua Benefield Concept: User Interface Design. This is something that would have been pretty intimidating, had it not been for the support and knowledge of Professor Seth Johnson. This app solves a very specific problem, for a very niche market of individuals, road cyclists. While there are a ton of apps out there […]
Student: Joshua Benefield To continue my theme of addressing societal issues through visual communication, I chose a very localized issue to Jacksonville State University, and admittedly to many colleges, if not most, across the country. The addition of the dreaded “Freshman Fifteen” or the estimated fifteen pounds a freshman is expected to gain in their […]
Graduate Student: Patrice Anderson Concept: The Artists as Entrepreneur project is a website resource to help guide students in Fine Arts and Graphic Design to find ways to start thinking of how to make money through entrepreneurship. Audience: The main audience will be Fine Arts and Graphic Design students, but may also be utilized by alumni. […]
Student: Joshua Benefield Addressing a topic that is near and dear to my heart (goodbye 22 pounds) I set out to approach the epidemic that is obesity within the state of Alabama. Research led me to the Alabama Department of Public Health’s Obesity Campaign, and their valuable statistics about not only nutrition in general, but […]
Department News,Gallery Shows,MFA Projects
This may the Department of Art graduated its first MFA in Visual Communication Design, Susan Robertson. Susan’s thesis was based around design pedagogy and featured the design investigation method. Her exhibition presented interactive situations that utilized the investigation method and demonstrated how these design problems could be solved.
