Print – Lauren Meranda

Cloth Face Mask Cards for CHA Residents

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Cloth Face Mask Cards for CHA Residents

Design & Riso Printing
Studio Brazen + National Public Housing Museum
May 2020

As cases of COVID-19 spread throughout Chicago, those who were marginalized before began feeling it even more. Access to PPE was not being provided to folks living in public housing in Chicago. Studio Brazen + the National Public Housing Museum worked with Chicago-based artists and activists Alexandria Eregbu, and Mary Scott-Boria & Darthula Young, who sewed the masks as part of #MuseumsAtHome.

Mayor Lori Lightfoot and Lisa Yun Lee, the director of the National Public Housing Museum passed them out to residents. Each mask came with a card with the storied history of mask wearing in the US and instructions on how to safely wear and care for the mask.

The cards were printed at NEIU on the Art + Design Department’s risograph printer in three colors (pumpkin, cornflower, and black). Risograph printing is eco friendly, using rice-based ink, and works like a cross between screen printing and a xerox machine. Each color and side of the page is a separate run through the machine.

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.

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

Folk Nite: WunderKammer

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Folk Nite: WunderKammer

This was the intro video for Folk Nite:WunderKammer. Folk Nite is a community arts event in the suburbs of Chicago where accessibility to the arts is minimal and finding creative spaces to participate is quite difficult. Events are themed and include community-generated artwork and short-set performances.

Video was announced a Judge’s Choice for the 2014 Chicago Design Archives.

The introduction video was projected on an entire wall to signal to attendees that the event was starting. The video began playing while guests were mingling in the main event space. The sounds are comforting, evoking the memory of a lullaby. Type is manipulated in water similarly to how a scientist would mix chemicals in a beaker, referencing the scientific and exploratory notions of historic WunderKammen without literally visually presenting them.

Other event materials, such as the poster, wayfinding, and event set-lists were created from the same process as the video.

Attendees were encouraged to bring an item to contribute to a growing WunderKammer installation.

Chorus and Coffee

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Chorus and Coffee

18″ x 24″

Show Poster, 2015

Getting messy, imagery for this poster was made with actual coffee and creamer and digitally manipulated later. It was designed for a show/fundraiser at a local coffee shop. Proceeds from coffee sales went to Venture Corps.

Where There Is Not

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Where There Is Not

Branding, 2015

Where There is Not is an organization started by architect and educator, Jae Cha. The organization leads students in creating products that are meant to reach areas in the world that have a basic need for survivial and spiritual input. Research and case studies determine areas of focus and products are developed, sometimes as small as a keychain or as large as a temporary shelter.

In spring of 2015 Professor Jae Cha, Professor Lauren Meranda, and myself joined three of our Judson University classes together to build, brand, and sell these developed products. We set a mixture of architecture and graphic design students to the task. The architecture students design the products and the graphic design students branded each sub-company under the Where There is Not umbrella and built a Web site meant to sell products to the public.

The branding identity and posters were designed in collaboration with Anna Filbert.

Photos by Sarah Recker and Jae Cha.

Dear, Sincerely, all

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Dear, Sincerely, all

Newsprint Show Poster/Mailer
Broadsheet Format, 2016

Judson University’s Graphic Design BFA thesis exhibitions materials. The mailer opens to reveal more information about the two shows. The opened mailer doubles as the show poster. The title of the show hints at the personal themes of the individual projects. At the exhibition, a banner with the show graphics utilizes paper, which emphasizes the notion of a personal note or letter.

Art & Design in Nature Creative Retreat Booklet

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Art & Design in Nature Creative Retreat Booklet

Booklet
Judson University, School of Art & Design Creative Retreat, 2015

Accompanying a wondrous weekend away, this booklet guided students from Judson University. Imagery was created using images of nature—water, clouds, honeycomb—revealed through images of found shadows. The booklets contained essential information for the students, including a map of the grounds, camp rules, room assignments, and meal prep teams. It also served as a workbook for the development of their nature installations.