montserrat design
design senior projects, ca 1998-2020

2001 and some previous (for which thesis documentation is available)   >   2002
(this is the ragged end, where the archives thin out)
afterword
 

			Walter Bosello (2001) Andrew Carey (2001) Anthony Cerasuolo (1999)
			Jennifer Chapell (2001) Shane Corso (2001) Nicole DeCotret (2001)
			Alexander Grigoryan (1998) Kevin Lee (1998) Bartosz Majczak (2001)
			Kendra Matte (2001) Tom Pasquini (1998) François Rey (1999)

 

• Walter Bosello (2001)
  box lamp, keyboards and the humanity of keyboards

  Fall semester —
  box lamp
  light that works as both ambient light source and task light
  Spring semester —
  keyboards and the humanity of keyboards
  interest in “feelings,” “texture and decoration,” relationship of oldness/tradition and “cool” in design, through deconstruction (figuratively and literally) of keyboards.
  thumbnail image above : documentation book cover (detail)
  

  formats —
  installation, prints, books; website (for keyboard project)

  current —
  @walterbosello
  linkedin
  graphic & multimedia designer at Simulware (e-learning company)

• Andrew Carey (2001)
  Reading Images, What does one need to become a designer?

  Spring semester —
  Reading Images / book on text/image issues
  Fall semester —
  What does one need to become a designer?
  survey (mailing), book
  thumbnail image above : draft page design, “psychedelic processes,” from process documentation

  “The lettering and the image were both equally important. That was radical”
  — Victor Moscoso

  current —
  andycareyart.com
  linkedin

• Anthony Cerasuolo (1999)
  writing, illustration and design of books

  these books including
  Being First Born —
  “a collection of episodes derived from memories and scattered recollections of [the author’s] grandather, Anthony Vito Cerasuolo,” and
  Joshua —
  a story with typographic illustrations about “an imaginative boy named Joshua.”

  “Joshua would yell for them to stop,
  but they wouldn’t.
  He would yell so loud that
  his mom would wake up,
  come down the hallway toward his room,
  and try to quiet him.”

  current —
  Meat Cutter at Whole Foods Market
  linkedin

• Jennifer Chapell
  Conversations with God, library wayfinding system

  Fall semester —
  Neale Donald Walsch, Conversations with God, book redesign
  Spring semester —
  icons and signs, culminating in a wayfinding system for the Beverly Public Library

  current —
  Records Management Specialist at Bristol-Myers Squibb
  linkedin

• Shane Corso
  I want to change the world, newspaper tragedies

  Fall semester —
  I want to change the world : gun violence, domestic abuse, racism.
  format : posters, sculptural objects
  Spring semester —
  series of booklets each devoted to a tragedy reported on in the newspaper (the “Dartmouth murders,” school shootings, student suicides, HIV/AIDS among young black males)

  current —
  HR Services sales leader, Paychex (provider of integrated human capital management solutions for payroll, benefits, human resources, and insurance services)
  linkedin

• Nicole (DeCotret) Wilson
  Play in the child development process

  Alphabet blocks, printmaking
  earlier stages of project involved letterpress experimentations, also time-based media (Macromedia Director) to try new methods of design, and to broaden style

  current —
  Director of Customer Success at Focused Impressions
  @nicoledecotret
  linkedin

• Alexander Grigoryan (1998)
  Emerald City | train of thought

  Typographic and visual presentation of poetry.

  current —
  Big Mind Creative Group
  musician
  @lex3001 (IG)
  @trlogymusic

• Kevin Lee (1998)
  design | processed | design

  Typographic experimentation, on theme of design process.
  Project also included technical experimentation with inkjet printer, including color (cmyk separation) overprints
  tumbnail image above : book interior (detail)

  “My personal process remains rather elusive to myself. The process itself is always in progress, constantly influenced by the media circus... is everchanging... Not only has this project evolved into something [beyond its original] purpose, it has also become a search into design.”

  current —
  Onboarding Manager and Lead Designer, AdMachines
  @kevinleearts

• Bartosz Majczak
  Sacred Geometry

  Visionary artists, inventors and writers
  ancient knowledge, technologies, belief constructs
  quantum physics, chaos theory, complexity theory, genetics, geometry, zero-point technology, immortology

  current —
  bartomon

• Kendra Matte
  books, bookness — definitions of the book

  Asked people for their definitions/understandings of what a book is, then embarked on several projects, including
  1   a hexagonal shaped box containg the words from Michael Nesmith’s The Prison;
  2   demo/prototype version of a website;
  3   work for the “Stick Squared” gallery show

  Spring semester —
  series of ads promoting reading of classic literature, including George Orwell’s 1984, Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird, and Victor Hugo’s The Hunchback of Notre Dame, followed by posters promoting reading in general.
  thumbnail image above : detail, back cover of process book

  current —
  Graphic Designer in Creative Services at Everbridge

• Tom Pasquini (1999)
  Swamp Foot

  co-creation, Tom Pasquini design and writing, and Richard Bradish illustration and writing
  thumbnail image above : Raygoo spread (detail)

  “Nathan stops, listens. The frog is just past the reedy wall of cat-tails. He gently, silently spreads the weeds and sees his prey. There he is, the monstrous beast of his derams: Mr. Raygoo. The one eyed wonder sits oblivious to his moral enemy, the missing eye a scar from an earlier confrontation with the mighty whomper.”

  current —
  Creative Director, Lion Ridge (digital and content marketing agency)

• François Rey (1999)
  The Dalblair

  Book on shipwreck of the steel three-masted barque Dalblair (built 1895) off the south-east coast of Mauritius in February 1902.
  The project included a keepsake brochure (set in Janson types and printed at Firefly Press in Somerville, Mass.), a 44-page book (whose text and photographic contents derive from archival and other sources), and a large image of the shipwreck screenprinted onto four steel plates.

  thumbnail image above : photograph of the rusted hulk of the Dalblair, ca 1998 (detail from printed keepsake)

  current —
  Monday Design
  Cape Town, South Africa

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afterword

It was in 2001 that a thesis documentation requirement was instituted for design students. One of the impetuses was a similar requirement at UMassDartmouth, as John McVey recalls. There is however some documentation of work by students in earlier years: this mainly takes the form of completed books or other formats, which were kept as teaching examples. Some of this is included in the listings above.

Other students, from earlier years —
Dave Ball; Mary Bean; Gary Darzano; Chris DeFrancesco; Chris DePietro; Jenn Krevchena; Tara McGrath; Dave Roach; Frank Sarcia; Heather (Sinopoli) Kirleis — each of these contributed to our Design|Clutter volume (1995), that was assigned an OCLC number — 527591420. (This means that all of these authors are forever named at worldcat!)

more to come