Senior Thesis Project //

Eco Paw Press Re-branding - c. Spring 2024

Medium: Found Footage and Images / Photoshop / InDesign / ProCreate

Spread 1: Everyday Stress

Spread 2: Illness/Medical

Spread 3: Violence

Spread 4: Pollution

Spread 5: War

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Senior Thesis Exhibit: Setup

Senior Thesis Exhibit: Printed Publication

Senior Thesis Exhibit: Visitor Prompt

Senior Thesis Exhibit: Answers (Before Show)

Senior Thesis Exhibit: Answers (After Show)

About this piece...

Prompt: The big senior thesis project - take a project and continue to expand it for it to be displayed in the senior thesis show.

Created in: ART.4611 Graphic Design Workshop 2 at University of Tennessee - Chattanooga.

My notes: Following the GD Workshop 1, I took the Fragmented Life project and kept expanding it. When I started the second part of this project, I decided that I wanted to direct it into a thought experiment by asking the question, "How do you deal with all of the stress that surrounds us (big or small)". I received a multitude of varying answers from all sorts of different people. Using these answers, I experimented with video and publication to find the best way to display them in the exhibition. I ended choosing the publication route with a collage approach. Using snippets from videos and pictures I found, I designed scenes for different kinds of stress we deal with. While they are very generalized, I designed them with the intent to get people's minds moving. In the exhibition I had a spot where I offered visitors the chance to also give their own answer to my question. See above for some of the answers that I was given!

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