Believe in design. Design your beliefs.

Winter 2024
This piece was created and accepted into the I Profess: The Graphic Design Manifesto, 20th Anniversary Traveling Juried Exhibition beginning at Michigan State University. This group show was a reflection of professional design professor’s beliefs and design approaches.

Title:
The rock or the water?

Design statement:
As technologies and mass media create ubiquity for graphic communications, populations will become more de-synthesized to graphic message. As design execution and production become more automated and easily accessible, conceptual thinking, curatorial choices and design strategies will become the currency of our discipline more than ever. Designers will be essential in driving innovation, justifying approaches, and answering the “why” behind every design decision. Functional design will be more easily automated but design-driven ideas will remain the realm of humanity. In this new economy of instant media, originality will be more essential than ever.

Media: Type C digital print. 25"X35"
Created with digital and analog photography, paper collage, and re-photographic techniques.

Design Notes:
A two-halved composition plays equally with "ideas" and "design" including questions and prompts to drive ideation and drive design execution choices. Imagery of both water and rock emphasis the permanence of ideas and temporary fluidity of execution. A bendable and never ending ribbon playfully pits "ideas and designs" against each other. Tally them up to see which is more important according to my POV.

Curators: Professor Bennett and Associate Professor Chris Corneal at the Design Center of Michigan State University.