2012: Spring

Spring 2012

December 10, 2012

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Our Humorous Posters

March 6, 2012

We are trying to imbue our posters with a bit of humor. These are some of the options we have come up with so far:

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Dekalb Event Poster

March 6, 2012

Dekalb Event Poster: This is our poster with information about our upcoming event!

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Watch out for the QR Coffee sleeves and check out the latest stories posted to our site. The next story could be yours! Green Week is Coming… What’s Your Story? will be at GREEN WEEK from March 25th-31st! We’re combining efforts with the “Free Store” , a place where art materials will be donated and […]

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Welcome to the Meet Market!

March 6, 2012

The butcher shop was our inspiration for the look and feel of the Meet Market container. Our experiment plays on the ideas of commodity of items, and purchasing power, as well as the end result of MEETing the person behind the story. The butcher shop was the perfect platform to highlight these ideas, allowing “customers” […]

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What’s Your Story?

March 6, 2012

The project focuses on discarded objects, and more specifically the stories and individuals behind them. We hope to create a movement that puts a new spin on material culture, valuing material objects and how they intersect with our lives.

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Social Media

March 6, 2012

Through the outlet of social media visitors are able to interact with the items and their history in a virtual realm. Visitors are also able to propose and vote for possible exchanges, follow their favorite items, and view what new items are added to the exchange.

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Studio Dynamics within the EDI

March 5, 2012

The EDI Studio is a dynamic one, which brings together people from various disciplines and allows for exchange of ideas through inividual and group work. This centralized design studio operates mainly from Pratt Institute, Brooklyn Campus and uses RAA’s Culture and Media Lab as an extended facility. The studio allows for collaborative exchange with professionals […]

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Questions for ‘Bigger Ideas’

March 5, 2012

Following the research stage of the competition, Parks for the People posed provocative questions that could be applied to both the National Park Services and our specific site, Hopewell Furnace National Historic Site. Our design studio used these questions as a framework to step back and investigate our big ideas for the Parks and how these could be applied across other […]

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Small Studies, Big Ideas

March 5, 2012

The design team is not thinking of a literal representation of “Alice in Wonderland”. Rather, we feel the best way to create a whole ‘new world’ is through abstraction of key allegorical elements. We have been playing with scale to heighten the illusion of fantasy and drama. To achieve this, we are finding new ways […]

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Setting the mood for “ONCE UPON”

March 5, 2012

We started with putting together mood boards that gave a sense of the textural quality we were trying achieve for our set. The idea was to use exaggerated scale to create the desired impact.

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