montserrat design
design senior projects, ca 1998-2020

2012  <   2013   >   2014 course blogs : fall 12, spring 13

			Ian Corrigan Gina DiPietro Lauren Giorgiades
			Nicole Lariviere Tim Olech Dana Robinson
			Alexa Szilagyi Jes Thayer

 

• Ian Corrigan
  synesthetic

  ...to develop a system that translates design elements directly into audio format, writing pieces of music by creating simple but visually pleasing designs that will become a score to a piece of music that I will then record and play back.

  tools — Max/MSP/Jitter

• Gina DiPietro
  Space. Form.

  Space. Form. Together an inseparable reality. {Unity of Opposites.} I explore this idea in the architecture and landscape of Boston and Southern Maine via drawing, photography, and three dimensional construction.

  formats — photographs, cyanotypes, drawings, assemblage

• Lauren Georgiades
  I Your We / CMYK

  Generated from my online diary during the years 2007-2009. My work contains the words immediately following the words I, Your, & We in every instance that they appear, chronologically. I wrote them in CMYK (Cyan, Magenta, Yellow, and Black, the four colors of offset printing), a symbol of my present and future as a graphic designer. I have washed out the details from my “previous” memories... [and] created an affectless poetry, lists open to new interpretation and multiple drawings. I learned to create my future with the materials I have gathered along the way.

• Nicole Lariviere
  The One Afternoon Collection

  Fabric design and branding, based on colors, textures and forms of Eastern Point, Gloucester. Scanned and traced photographed textures and forms, then experimented with and derived designs from those. Ordered swatches of each design as well the color chart from Spoonflower as a first test of what everything will look like in production. Designed One Afternoon identity and promotional materials, incorporating photographs taken at Eastern Point.

• Tim Olech
  Journey into a Pixelated Mind

  Focus on grid and pixels, led to work with generative art and the use of the Processing programming language.

  formats —
  overlays, coding, projections (onto wall painted (in parts) with clear acrylic glaze). also sculptural elements.

  interview (Brafton, January 23, 2020)
  @ohyesitstim

• Dana Robinson
  Dreamland

  documentation of dreams in flat (illustration) work, and “three-dimensional design artifacts that will engage the viewer in a more physical way.”

  website
  dana-designs.co

• Alexa Szilagyi
  Shipwreck, Error, Rope, and Language

  tall ships (visited); ruins (artifacts from the wreck of the Whydah, also Champlain II; words (Hans Blumenberg’s Shipwreck with Spectator, Herman Melville’s Moby Dick); sailor’s yarns and ropemaking; lines, numbers, patterns; mapping positives and negatives; ship comparisons; ship breaking yards; oil comparisons; rope (making rope); vellum books

  thumbnail image (from poster) : graphic representation of the world’s largest ship graveyard, at Alang, India... well over 100 vessels dotting the coastline, awaiting shipbreaking...

  formats —
  books; posters; rope

• Jes Thayer
  Spectral Frequencies / Coalescence / Binaural Frequencies

  I’ve been doing some deep research into the science of Psychoacoustics (brain waves and music). By finding the boundaries and following a pattern of frequency behavior, I now have a pattern to follow to induce a state of meditative transience. I would like to couple this audio manipulation with parts of learning, as learning new things is often as hard as letting things go, like the parts of our brains that worry about our own struggles.