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History Lessons: Everyday Stories from Chicago Public Housing

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History Lessons: Everyday Stories from Chicago Public Housing

Exhibition Design
National Public Housing Museum, Summer 2018

Named #6 in the Chicago Tribune’s top 10 exhibitions in Chicago in 2018.

Instead of showcasing rarefied objects in the standard museum fashion, this one put on display mundane things from public housing residents — a mason’s tools, a Pyrex dish, a garden hose — and told the deep human stories behind them. Objects were loaned from public housing residents, past and present, and each label was written from the object owner themselves during a writing workshop held at the museum.

Raymond “Shaq” McDonald stands with a model airplane he was given as a child. (Terrence Antonio James / Chicago Tribune)

Exhibit designed for the National Public Housing Museum at ArcheWorks, curated by Lisa Yun Lee and Richard Cahan, with design assistance from Andrés Alejandro Chavez.

Adventure Learning Center and Camp

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Adventure Learning Center and Camp

Logo Refresh and Website
Adventure Learning Center and Camp
Nassau, Bahamas, 2018

http://www.adventurelearningcenterandcamp.org/

Adventure Learning Center and Camp (ALC Bahamas) is a place for students and families in Nassau, Bahamas, to come and engage in a camp experience. The camp and center have a petting zoo and other attractions appealing to young children and families. They offer after school programming as well as traditional sleep away camp experiences.

ALC Bahamas wanted to refresh an outdated logo for new materials while still being able to use old signage while transitioning. The logo has been simplified and is usable for a larger variety of materials, from donor outreach to event branding for children.

In addition to the revised logo, ALC Bahamas needed a new website that worked for both their camp functions as well a space for their community events run through the center. The new website features both aspects of the organization and has a blog function running on WordPress CMS, so the staff can easily add content to without prior web editing experience.

Wabi Sabi: Design in Nature Retreat

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Wabi Sabi: Design in Nature Retreat

Event Branding
Judson University, School of Art & Design Creative Retreat, 2017

In the fall of 2017, Judson University’s Art & Design Department took their students to Camp Wandawega in Elkhorn, WI, for a weekend retreat exploring the idea of Wabi Sabi. The Japanese aesthetic of Wabi-Sabi is a beauty of things imperfect, impermanent, and incomplete. It is a beauty of things modest and humble. Wabi-sabi is a beauty of things unconventional.

Branding & Promo

Created the year prior at the camp site, this logo was made with the assistance of students by projecting text onto the leaves while selectively moving branches for long exposure photographs. The images were then digitally manipulated for color. Multiple images were then compiled to create an animated logo, which was used for social media marketing for the event.

Info Booklet and Program

Before the To guide the students through the weekend experience, everyone was given a handmade book. Its contents included reference information, such as a daily schedule and meal information, as well as a workbook leading students through the weekend curriculum. With quotes from artists, historical figures, and poets, and imagery created in the same way as the logo, the book set the tone for their stay.

Setting

To set the scene, signage was placed throughout the camp, students were given branded swag, and the meal area was decorated with brand colors and aesthetic.

Logo design developed with the assistance of Katie Dunbar and Andrés Chavez.

Photographs by Kate Heard and Rachel Loomis.

Housing as a Human Right: Social Construction

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Housing as a Human Right: Social Construction

Exhibition Design
National Public Housing Museum
Chicago Architecture Biennial, 2017–2018

A pop-up exhibit on housing as a human right for the Chicago Architecture Biennial, this exhibit tells a brief history of public housing using artifacts that will be featured in the forthcoming National Public Housing Museum.

Exhibit designed for the National Public Housing Museum at ArcheWorks, in collaboration with Amy Reichert Architecture and ArcheWorks, with design assistance from Andrés Alejandro Chavez.

Open Engagement — JUSTICE

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Open Engagement — JUSTICE

Print, Web, Collateral, and Site Design
Open Engagement, A Socially Engaged Art Practice Conference
Chicago, 2017

Open Engagement (OE) is an annual artist-led conference dedicated to expanding the dialogue around and creating a site of care for the field of socially engaged art. The conference highlights the work of transdisciplinary artists, activists, students, scholars, community members, and organizations working within the complex social issues and struggles of our time.

The design for 2017’s design, the theme of JUSTICE was explored through the phrase, “No Justice, No Peace” and imagery from Chicago’s Torture Justice Memorial. Using a two color printing process, all print materials were printed locally and with sustainable materials.

Design assistance from Ricardo Garcia, Amanda Sanchez, JJay Eden, Hannah Kyle, and Andrés Chavez
Select images taken by Jaclyn Rivas, Mollie Nye, and JJay Eden

UIC MFA Exhibitions

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UIC MFA Exhibitions

Double-Sided Broadsheet Poster
5″ x 3.5″ Pocket Book
MFA Thesis Exhibitions Materials, 2016

UIC’s 2016 MFA graduates hosted three separate exhibitions in Gallery 400. The poster/mailer served as promotion for all three. It was accompanied by a pocketbook with more details on the shows and each artist’s work.

All materials are designed in two-colors. The front of the poster and the cover of the pocketbook feature fragments of the exhibited student work. Each show was assigned a shape—triangle, rectangle, and circle—and artwork from each show is abstracted in their respective shapes. The reverse of the poster nods to the work of Eve Fowler and features a quote from Rihanna.

Love to make art?

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Love to make art?

18″ x 24″ Poster
UIC School of Art & Art History
GenEd Recruitment Poster, Fall 2015

Developed for UIC School of Art & Art History to recruit non-art majors to take art & art history classes to fulfill their GenEd requirements.

The posters feature individuals interacting with famous works of art in a tongue in cheek play on words—making out / making art.

Laser Cut Invitation

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Laser Cut Invitation

5.25″ x 5.25″
Laser cut star chart invitation

A personal project, this invite was for a dear friend’s 30th birthday bonfire.

Instead of using ink to build color, three layers of colored paper were adhered together and etched away with a laser cutter to expose the different layers of colored paper.

To / Through

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To / Through

Approx. 15’x20’
Projected Prose on Smoke from Fog Machines, 2015

To/Through explores the relationship between visual and written storytelling, memory, and history via letterforms, words, and phrases projected onto smoke. Words and phrases only become readable as light catches the smoke—a reference to the ephemeral nature of recollection and memories.

Liza Day at SPACE

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Liza Day at SPACE

24″ x 36″
Show Poster, 2015

Check out Liza Day music!
www.lizaday.com