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Design is irrepressibly expansive and promiscuously inclusive. Its capacity for relevance is essentially limitless. As such, it is the goal of the Cornish Department of Design to prepare flexible designers who possess both broad and specific skills. In this, we are deliberately, actively, aligned with the tradition of craft. Where this tradition has been lost — perhaps eclipsed by the tools themselves — we endeavor to restore an appreciation of craft to creative practice. But it is also our goal to educate designers into both broad and specific knowledge, and to nurture experience. Our alignment with the past and engaged sensitivity to emerging realities underwrites our belief in current and future designers. We are profoundly invested in the generations of citizen–designers to come.
I invite you to witness these commitments in our BFA Show and to join with us in celebrating the achievements of our students. This is the capstone exhibit for Seniors in our three concentrations: Interior Design, Motion Design and Visual Communication. Students have worked closely with faculty advisors, their work has been submitted to both peer critique and external review, and the excitement and expectations have mounted throughout the term. On behalf of the whole Cornish community, I am delighted to extend our congratulations to our Seniors.
Grant Donesky
Chair, Design Department
Boe Baty
Visual Communications
My energy and imagination allow me to invent visually intriguing designs in a wide variety of media. I revel in design that reflects the world of pop culture, mass media, and anything that supports animal ethics.
Jason Bready
Motion Design
Like every time before, I asked myself, ‘What if?’ And the answer I found proved too good to keep to myself.
Jared V. Carlson
Visual Communications
Inspired by the natural sciences and the universe around us in all of its vastness, variety and accidental design, I work with evolving technology to challenge and expand my abilities as a designer to create intriguing, dynamic design.
Juan Joaquin Castro
Motion Design
I encourage the willful suspension of disbelief.
Deborah Cughan
Visual Communications
deb.cughan@arts.cornish.edu
deborahcughan.com
“Design is the method of putting form and content together. Design, just as art, has multiple definitions; there is no single definition. Design can be art. Design can be aesthetics. Design is so simple, that’s why it is so complicated.” — Paul Rand
Nichole Christine Davis
Interior Design
“Design is art, is a recognition of the relation between various things, various elements in the creative flux. You can’t invent a design, you recognize it, in the fourth dimension. That is, with your blood and your bones, as well as with your eyes.” — D.H. Lawrence
Jack Deyoung
Visual Communications
jdeyoung01@yahoo.com
entitydesign.net
04.06.09
I could say something now, but it will evolve. That’s the beauty of design for me.
Rachel Elder
Interior Design
rheidielder86@aol.com
rachel-elder.blogspot.com
An intricate piece of heirloom jewelry, a well-loved book, an old building. I constantly find myself drawn to and inspired by history. The best part: becoming an active participant instead of a passing viewer.
Tanner Hawkins
Visual Communications
tan.hawkins@arts.cornish.edu
www.awkwardesign.com
Childlike curiosity is the best design tool I have.
Lindy Kanand
Visual Communications
lindykanand@gmail.com
www.lindykanand.com
I believe in mermaids, and I rode a narwhal to school today.
Krystal Kono
Visual Communications
krystal.kono@gmail.com
www.kkono.com
Constantly learning, always evolving, never stopping.
Kyle Benjamin Macy
Visual Communications
kbmacy@gmail.com
kylebenjamin.tumblr.com
BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!
Brian Markle
Visual Communications
bri.markle@gmail.com
www.brianmarkle.com
some girls just want to have fun... and i am one of those girls.
Andre Martin
Visual Communications
My design is like corn, solid from start to finish.
Sarah R. Metzger
Visual Communications
I have always been fascinated by history and how the past influences both the present and the future. With my senior thesis I decided to focus my attention on the alarming similarities between the Great Depression and our current financial crisis. Designers during the 1930s were able to adhere to a call of arms, fulfilling the modernist promise to make “affordable, intelligent design for a broad audience.”
Now with the current state of the economy seeing new lows and unemployment rates hitting record highs, this is the time for the 21st century designer to step up to the plate and refocus their attention on the needs of today’s society. Today’s designer faces unprecedented challenges, as we must address the need for fiscal restraints, while keeping with the new principles of sustainability.
Melissa Nugent
Visual Communications
In the search for ourselves, we find that we were there all along.
Ed Olanu
Visual Communications
You are interesting. Have a taste of my style. Love always.
Jerold L. Paet
Interior Design
My experience at Cornish has allowed me to try different things, all of which have affected my work in a creative way.
Jennifer “Jenny Bug” Perry
Motion Design
jen.perry@arts.cornish.edu
jennperry.com
I listen to the people around me. I see and hear their daily experiences, their love, their pain, their memories, and their dreams. I pull from those life experiences and stories to create visual and/or narrative representations through hand drawings and paintings, computer art, or video and animation. The imagery I create can range from a direct representation to fictional characters and stories.
The story in my BFA show comes from the memories and the relationship my family had with an exotic animal, Max.
Jennifer Rainbolt
Interior Design
If there were a project that I would happily do for free, this would be it. What this thesis represents is a scratch on the surface of the water issues in Puget Sound. Beginning with the idea that contaminants contained in storm water runoff could be filtered through a series of green spaces, this project has morphed into an entire educational system.
What evolved was “The Puget Sound Water Research Academy.” A K–12 educational model based on the integration of left brain scientists, right brain creatives and the socially minded in collaboration on real world projects relating to our water quality. The goal is to understand, create solutions, interface with the public successfully and integrate those solutions into the real world.
Overall, the design has evolved from extensive research in Puget Sound water quality issues and will reflect the needs of scientists, artists and the next wave of political movers.
Chanse Redus
Motion Design
www.chanseredus.com
xevan79@hotmail.com
As a motionographer, I view myself as a puppet master of a four-dimensional space. I find creating narratives with the rhythms of line, color and sound that trigger emotional connections quite intoxicating. Motion design is my vehicle to share universal experiences in a titillating and enlightening manner.
Sandra Rey
Visual Communications
heureux17@gmail.com
sandrarey.typepad.com
As a designer I bring sincere enthusiasm, strong communication skills, and a sense of purpose to every project. I take pride in expanding and refining my process through new challenges and applications. I am naturally curious and I love to explore many options before settling on one. I enjoy collaborating with a wide variety of designers, artists, and people; and I like to have fun while doing it!
Tobi Seagran
Interior Design
As an interior designer, it is my ultimate goal not only to create spaces, but also to create experiences for people to enjoy. end result where our designs can come to life and influence people’s lives for the better. Design has the power to change the world and I feel privileged to be entering a career where I know I can make a difference.
Richard C. Su
Motion Design
info@richard-su.com
www.richard-su.com
“All the world’s a stage,
And all the men and
women merely players;
They have their exits and
their entrances...”
— William Shakespeare
Motion graphics is like staging to me — just as a composer knows what sounds go together, a designer, too, discovers rhythm. It is a rhythm of all critical elements (plots, characters, sounds and images) well–synchronized for a particular genre or feel. Because it is a fascinating creative process, the designer has the opportunity to compose on a stage. Graphics and sound are the players and they enter and exist on a timeline.
Parallel processing is an editing process of two independent videos re–edited into a new video. Images have a unique way of communicating as everyone processes through his personal experiences. Dynamic editing could be more exciting since point of views can be presented multi–dimensionally; therefore, it is more entertaining.
Stefani Swiatkowski
Motion Design
Humans are born storytellers. It’s how we live beyond our short time on this earth; we tell our own stories and weave them into others.