mcvey teaching archive/notes
design senior projects, ca 1998-2021
The Montserrat Design Program maintains a physical archive of documentation of student capstone work. The archive, and this directory and the brief abstracts it points to, are primarily intended for reference by current and future design students as they develop their thesis ideas.
McVey was instructor for at least some of these students’ participation in Design Seminar; other instructors were John Colan and Jesse Kahn, not to mention many seminar guests and reviewers over the years. Some further discussion (in progress) here.
click on name to be taken to that student’s abstract.
arrows ↕ sort by year and alphabetical order.
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2022 | Aristeo, Audrey | form | thought (embroidery, felt collages) |
2022 | Badolato, Andrea | Abstraction, Pattern / First Thought, Second Thought (development of patterns and applications, from gestures) |
2022 | Connors, Melissa | it must be just fine (collages, digitally altered collages, prints, books) |
2022 | Coughlin, Eileen | Gus Walks (photographs of daily walks with dog, documentation of Beverly in fall and winter months; books) |
2022 | Fraser, Brooke | head in the clouds (digital collages involving sky, planes, power lines, and other themes of personal importance) |
2022 | Higgins, Will | Pa|Rasites (homes and abandoned homes; story, photography; constructed and 3D printed models) |
2022 | Klesaris, Emily | redaction (diagrams; text and image collages in response to info overload; nonverbal learning disorder) |
2022 | Saab, Jessica | fluid thoughts (maps, diagrams, digital collages, typographic abstractions, photographs, indexes, 3D pieces) |
2022 | Varley, HX | 7 Day Dresses (drawings, sketches, patterns, dresses; “I Bet You Can’t.”) |
2022 | Waggett, Henry | Mapping Spaces (diagrams, maps, installation) |
2021 | Dami, Leslie | Trash or Treasure / Thrifted and Jewelry Box (book; photographs; social media; installation) |
2021 | Klebon, Adam | Migrations — Drawings in Thread (embroidered imagery and text) |
2021 | Pineda, Gervin | Inception (animated film titles); Ascenzia (robot sci-fi story: key scene visualizations; 3-D models; packaging) |
2020 | Carlow, Arielle | Repeat, Redo, Replay (robots; stop motion and time lapse animations; music) |
2020 | Cioffi, Nathaniel | Broken Amend/ments; Frustration & Isolation; YOU ARE HERE!, &c. |
2020 | Cook, Andrew | Vulnerability / Be A Man (gender issues) |
2020 | Demptser, Paige | Nihilist Dogs (icons; symbols; animals) |
2020 | DiIonno, Claire | Mental Note (the face; identity; memory) |
2020 | Fraser, Richard | $LICK (streetwear design) |
2020 | Funda, May | Adrift (aquatic animals; book series) |
2020 | Hosking, Nicole | Left Behind (book series, theme of abandonment) |
2020 | Jones, Rebecca | Tell Me, O Muse (translation, connotation, reading; using Homer’s Odyssey; books) |
2020 | Mitchell, Cailee | Vulva Is Not a Dirty Word |
2020 | Philips, Zaruga | Plait (Black women’s hair; poetry, drawn and photographic illustrations) |
2020 | Rudin, Steven | Positive Attitude (promotional materials, comedy stage show) |
2019 | Bollinger, Cassidy | Creature Comfort (personal mapping) |
2019 | Chan, Amy | Modern Quackery (conceptual packaging) |
2019 | Fox, Emily | Stitch and Repeat (repetition, texture, color; printmaking and fiber arts) |
2019 | Guttadauro, Kara | Fibers of Memory (clothing into paper; memory) |
2019 | Jones, Jenn | That’s Kind of Dark (book arts; need for light in dark times) |
2019 | Mainetti, Vincent | Modularity (structural packaging; modularity; wall systems) |
2019 | Mortimore, Taylor | Where Do You Think We’re Going? (mortality; plastics; toxic trash) |
2019 | Newhart, N. N. | We Were Never Meant To Succeed (book and other work, relating to growing up with the Bible) |
2019 | Tricoche, Andrew | Seeing Sounds (hand lettering, music, visualization of speech and songs) |
2018 | Azevedo, Coral | Plastic Vanity (makeup culture; cosmetics; pride) |
2018 | Brann, Kaleigh | Metamorphosis (repurposings of glass, metal, &, forms, results photographed/filmed in natural settings) |
2018 | Burgess, Gabrielle | A Hand in Nature (dried, pressed and live flowers in landscape-like patterns; 3-D letterforms/words) |
2018 | O’Connor, Morgan | Alchemation (design of tool to encourage variations in character development) |
2018 | Rodas, Jeremy | Momento (recording, documentation, transformation of cracks in Hardie Building) |
2018 | Ruscio, Jade | Repetition and Configuration (transformation and arrangement of prints from various fruits) |
2018 | Ryan, Courtney | Cynical (videos, mainly, including “Wild dads browse local market for things they don’t need”) |
2018 | St. Laurent, Liam | Alienation (prints, &c., developed from extraterrestrial imagery, photographs of empty streets and rainy days) |
2018 | Turner, Harrison | Corpora (work about celebrating bodies for their vast differences) |
2017 | Bonin, Alexandra | Augmented Storytelling (use of AR to tell stories; #reinventthemovieposter) |
2017 | Bowen, Taylor | Open Matter (letterpress printing, formal experimentation, both thematic and abstract) |
2017 | Bukva, Adela | language, narrative, politics, American drug culture, process (typography, conceptual packaging) |
2017 | Chen, Li Yun | Tea package design (creative tea packaging, incorporating traditional Chinese style elements) |
2017 | Cox, Lauren | Intertwined (exploration of typewriter as creative tool; formal experiments) |
2017 | Dygon, Katie | Patterns with Processing (work about celebrating bodies for their vast differences) |
2017 | Feng, Ziyi | Changing Lives, Alice in Wonderland (women in China; photoplay images) |
2017 | Britney, Payton | EAT.In; Writing Error (food and identity; infographics pertaining to inebriated speech) |
2017 | Terranova, Chase | Strata : family, identity, and collage (books and installation) |
2016 | Bentsen, Meg | eleMENTAL (Design and construction of (modular) origami dresses and related objects)) |
2016 | Florez, Mariah | Limited Exposure (snakeskin motifs, variations of and experimental applications) |
2016 | Hillmann, James | Digital Structures (visual identity for a speculative “Quantum” VR web browsing concept) |
2016 | Lukos-Algarin, Angel | Architypetural / Architectural Abstractions (abstractions from Boston building shapes) |
2016 | Matias, Juan | creation of the perfect Tinder profile (a how-to guide for a successful Tinder experience) |
2016 | Pelletier, Cody | album design (album/CD design, collateral) |
2016 | Perry, Samantha | instinctual vs process (bird nests, &c) |
2016 | Rios, Alexandra | what’s the buzz (project devoted to bees, including guide to herbs/flowers that help pollinators) |
2016 | Whelan, Kayla | words and everything else (language, in particular its imperfections...) |
2015 | Fujii, Mayuka | Illustrated Art School Discipline character design (personification of academic concentrations at MCA) |
2015 | Iverson, Alexander | memories, Frankenstein (data collection, visualization (cigarette butts); used copies of Frankenstein) |
2015 | Manchester, Deborah | normal | normality (experimental books, post-its, other investigations of the idea of “normal”) |
2015 | Middleton, Sarah | Dream Threads (2- and 3-D diagrams of physical and mental spaces, and threads that connect them) |
2015 | Pettit, Alyssa | Rox Flux : A Geologic Illumination (organization of data around rocks; space and time) |
2015 | Rivers, Shelby | from quilling, to generative design, to observations of other cars on commute to school... to... dead end |
2015 | Roswess, Brenda | Softcore Books / State of the Codex (fetishization of the book; what do we want from the codex?) |
2014 | Bittner, Darek | letterpress and other printed books (Adirondack high peaks; How I Killed a Bear, &c.) |
2014 | Carey, Joanna | Recovery (phonetics, lines and poetry) |
2014 | Chin, Whitney | Textile Factory (handcrafted designs for a small personal business; branding and identity) |
2014 | Foley, Amanda | The Art of Storytelling (sequence of random events, involving coding, language, animations) |
2014 | Hatfield, Caitlin | What defines a hat? (costume design; structure and reconstruction of hats) |
2014 | Lares, Caroline | Beautiful / Ugly (destruction of beautiful objects (stilleto shoes); photography, drawings; video) |
2014 | Reilly, Nico | Between You and I (cataloging of relationship; signs; screenprinting; instagram campaign) |
2014 | Valcourt, Tiffany | Something Once Lost (collage illustrations; book; puppets based on Brothers Grimm fairy tales) |
2014 | Varney, Liv | Young Fellow Clothing (T-shirt design (unique screenprint collages), other apparel (caps), branding; marketing ) |
2014 | Wallace, Rebecca | Habitual Chaos (analytical diagrams) |
2014 | Yuzwak, Monique | Public Enemies (art directed photographs, book on “bank robbers” (historical and contemporary)) |
2013 | Corrigan, Ian | synesthetic (a system that translates design elements into sound; music) |
2013 | DiPietro, Gina | Space. Form. (architecture/landscape of Boston and Southern Maine; drawings, photos, 3-D constructions) |
2013 | Giorgiades, Lauren | I Your We / CMYK (an affectless poetry derived from online diary; color typography) |
2013 | Lariviere, Nicole | The One Afternoon Collection (fabric design and branding, reflecting colors/textures of Gloucester) |
2013 | Olech, Tim | Journey into a Pixelated Mind (coded in processing; overlays, coding, projections, sculptural elements) |
2013 | Robinson, Dana | Dreamland (documentation of dreams in flat (illustration) and 3-D work) |
2013 | Szilagyi, Alexa | Shipwreck, Error, Rope, and Language (books; posters; rope) |
2013 | Thayer, Jes | Spectral Frequencies / Coalescence / Binaural Frequencies (psychoacoustics : brain waves and music) |
2012 | Armington, Brittany | map translations (maps; paper, wood and thread sculptural forms; infographics) |
2012 | Burt, Zachary | The Tortoise, Hare, Dog and Sheep (cartoon animation) |
2012 | Giles, Randi | Insulae (drawings, photographs, maps/diagrams/installation relating to Prudence Island, Rhode Island) |
2012 | Gill, Tiffany | letterforms (“All of old. Nothing else ever. Ever tried. Ever failed. But never so failed. Fail better.”) |
2012 | Grosvenor, Ari | nature of beauty / beauty of nature (gender, identity; posters, installation; designed objects) |
2012 | Humphrey, Erin | Contradictions (different cultures/practices of human rights; vinyl wall installation, posters) |
2012 | Kenahan, Bridget | identity through objects /shoes / 21 Years of Consumerism (autobiographical; 3-D graphs, installation) |
2012 | Lagesse, Erika | Fractal Typography (various formats, materials) |
2012 | Martinez, Ruby | The Moon (animation of story by the Brothers Grimm; typographic experiments) |
2012 | Pierce, Eric | Gamepocalpyse (zines and website providing information on video games) |
2012 | Wheeler, Lana | The Closet (derivation from drawings of clothing in closet, into colorful jewelry collection) |
2012 | Winchester, Arielle | public words / facebook infographic progress (social media / statistical visualization exercises) |
2011 | Brown, Jonathan | Gilded Sentry Superhero costume development |
2011 | Carroll-Coelho, Sarah | Dissection in a Square (abstractions from Boston-area buildings, flat and 3-D) |
2011 | Cinarli, Zarah | The Loss of Innocence (development of a symbolic typeface) |
2011 | DeCosta, Rick | Hampton Beach (photographic essay, in three volumes : the strip, found lettering, derived lettering) |
2011 | Fiore, Alexandra | ZANDRA : The Mixed Media Magazine |
2011 | Heinemann, Ariel | Naughty Dog; A Girl Named Otis (brewery concept/identity; collateral materials) |
2011 | Magnuson, Tessa | Digestion (“To take into the mind or memory; especially : to assimilate mentally.”) |
2011 | Mason, Lindsey | obscurities (machines, deconstruction of; Characters — costume concepts, design) |
2011 | Murphy, Autumn | When Red Meets White (retail store lookbooks) |
2011 | O’Brien, Jennifer | Breedism, Abuse and Companionship (awareness campaign on animal shelter issues) |
2011 | O’Hara, Kellie | layering repetition (paper, cutting, folding, curling, sculpting; transparences, &c.) |
2011 | Pomazon, Jordan | An Overrated Sense of Sense; The Wry, Raw, Whimsical Wall (text and image) |
2010 | Cooney, Courtney | Fashion Marche / Marie Antoinette (collages involving historical and contemporary sources; book) |
2010 | Davidson, Kate | Bad Love (Spoiler Alert post series; Parlance book pairing film images and classical epigrams) |
2010 | Surette, Sarah | Scrapbooks, scrapbooking (research on scrapbooking and related practices; participatory scrapbooking) |
2010 | Stewart, Dan | VCTM design, branding (posters, screenprinting and other experimentation) |
2009 | Gormley, Brittney | Analysis of Dreams through Photographic Self-Portraiture |
2009 | Hill, Ashley | On the Road (road trips: books, installation, large-format accordian-fold graphics) |
2009 | Hogg, Scott | symbols, exploration of (drawings, animations demonstrating molecular non-symbolic basis of experience) |
2009 | Jackson, Aaron | baseball cap designs (designs for and production of embroidered baseball caps) |
2009 | Hinkle, Niki (Michael) | BTICH (Because True Individuality Can Happen) Bags (teaser marketing campaign, oriented to women) |
2009 | Michalenko, Philip | 30+1 books (each devoted to one of Félix Fénéon’s Novels in Three Lines; illustration and design) |
2009 | Mooney, Scott Allen | Momentarily (untitled) (tart cards, &c, letterpress and citrasolve work on subject of identity) |
2009 | Niven, Kathy | soccer balls (details) |
2009 | Troie, Kristin | Eat This. (imagery (on plates, &c.) and books, around meatless foods) |
2008 | Bruce, Meagan | The Clothing Bar (brand identity; T-shirt designs, beverages, foods) |
2008 | Kahan, Michael | vocation (letterpress &c. experiments around words homophonous with “Kahan”) |
2008 | Rello, Justin | Out / Lines : A Collection of Fragments (stories, quasi forensic “evidence”) |
2008 | Shelton, Sonya | HIV / AIDS Awareness Campaign (photography, vectorized images; posters, installation) |
2008 | Stopa, Laura | mirrors (in myth, superstition, fairytale, and contemporary times) |
2008 | Trevathan, Steven | Juxta Crucem (visual poetry; letterpress and other typographic experiments) |
2008 | Warwick, Emily | Dreams (photographic collages; writing) |
2007 | Bablo, Andrew | Steez mini-mag (magazine and identity devoted to snowboarding sport and culture) |
2007 | Hill, Jr. John | dots (experimental: reduce the matter down to the smallest elemental unit) |
2007 | Lee, K C | Random nonsense / misinformation (use of nonsense as a tool for conveying messages) |
2007 | Lovasco, Joe | line drawings, on flat surfaces and as three-dimensional objects in three-dimensional spaces |
2007 | Meyers, Sarah | Solarbotics, Quest for the Ancient Mariner (robotics in the classroom; interviews with retired seamen) |
2007 | Mineo, Jennifer | poetry in the world (display of short poems in unlikely locations; design/publication of collection of tanka) |
2007 | Rupert, Kaity | Orangutan Valley; As Above, So Below. (zoo information, design; astrological profiles) |
2007 | Sullivan, Morgan | Fear, Faith, and the Bible (posters, &c., people holding bibles) |
2007 | Tari, Jessica | Pier 17 (decorative shapes, designs, derived from a guppy) |
2007 | Toye, Devon | Dreams (Quint Thalassic and other comic books) |
2007 | Vachon, Peter | My playlist 1970; Selective 90s Pop Culture (booklets, installation devoted to music &c.) |
2006 | Chipman, Andrew | Annotated Transcription (information design; analysis of conversation; book) |
2006 | Hoshi, Liya | Analogous Quantification : An exploration of numerical analysis using the pixel-based image |
2006 | Lamb, Allison | Copy Magazine (development of an arts magazine; also, letterpress experiments) |
2006 | Lombardini, Lisa | Punctuate your world; Alternatype (punctuation in classic literature; work in reaction to popular songs) |
2006 | Lynch, Timothy | Fireside : Building the Fire (images, stories, music; autobiographic) |
2006 | Shakir, Adel | lost memories (memories and emotions; MRI scans) |
2006 | Skarep, Denis | Stecaks (Bosnian tombstones; poetry translations, book, website) |
2005 | Preston, Corinne (Back) | cariña (development of back story, identity, designs for wine label) |
2005 | Bailey, Eric | Prostitutes are Professional too : an exploration of designer ethics (critical design practice) |
2005 | Blank, David | Bird Brain, Real Beasts, Four Principles of Design, &c. (drawings, collages, stories; books) |
2005 | Cannon, Brian | Some people I have in mind (poster- and magazine-format visual biographies; collage) |
2005 | DiLeo, Kerrian | Artist Clichés (paper doll motif/format) |
2005 | Dolabaille, Rene | Calypso and Soca Music (books, posters, fliers, CD package design) |
2005 | Hayward, Nathan | Insect Amalgamations (digital collages; book, prints) |
2005 | Jenness, Ben | The Holographic Universe (used handmade holograms to hide messages in book) |
2005 | Kinchla, Paul | Vaudeville Life (nonsense poetry, in vaudeville-poster style; posters, book) |
2005 | Kulig, Hedwiga Sofia | Hedwiga’s Time Machine (fictional autobiography; catalogue of mysteriously significant objects) |
2005 | Lambert, Joseph | graffiti-style, stencil-based art, and work derived from summer in Barcelona. |
2005 | Levesque, Curtis | Singles Covers (“a wall filled with these 9" x 9" illustrations” of Frank Zappa pieces) |
2005 | Liu, Chung Heng | Imports : Foreigners in Taiwan (book, photographs, text) |
2005 | O’Connor, Meghan | modus operandi (from a line of handbags and t-shirts... [to] an overall brand that houses my many ideas) |
2005 | Pivirotto, Nicole | Reformation of Home Textiles, Heart Felt (details) |
2005 | Savignano, Brian | tractor (letterpress book, posters, huge wall installation) |
2005 | Sexton, Matt | Blood and Treasure (clothing for surf/skate culture; branding) |
2005 | Shover, Luke | title (details) |
2005 | Stepanova, Nellie | Fieldtrip (title sequence for film; animated logo for “Cotica Productions;” posters) |
2005 | Theriault, Ron | Shodokan Dojo, “Exitosus” (book about Salem Kendo; design of a typeface) |
2004 | Acampora, Nicole | Color Therapy Kits (informational pamphlets, candles, light bulbs, eye glasses, herbal mists, &c.) |
2004 | Amaru, Michael | Just Receipts, Marine Dreams (the romance and expenses of restoring a Chris Craft boat) |
2004 | Burtsell, Briana | Local Histories : Common Events, Private Lives (sharing stories, connecting with elders; interviews) |
2004 | Chalmers, Kathryn | Emotional Shorthand Workbook; From Lust to Love (symbol system to code emotions; film posters) |
2004 | Cole, Casandra | College Communications (research and development of specific proposals) |
2004 | Colocouris, Mike | Beautiful Things (photocopied books... around themes of attention, deficit, design, disorder) |
2004 | Fukui, Hitomi | You Say, They Say; Expat Cats (American and Japanese perceptions of everyday things; children’s book) |
2004 | Jipson, Ellen | A in Architecture (book about the “A” form in architectural structures) |
2004 | Keating, Chris | Money (identity, advertising and package design for a line of aftershave and cologne) |
2004 | Kelly, Bill | Tim Sun’s Rhode Rat (Kustom Kar Kulture magazine design: car restoration project and jalopy jamboree) |
2004 | Lacombe, Cameron | Quantum Graphics; Super Dinosaur Land (experiments with pixelization; game and game package design) |
2004 | Macdonald, Sarah | Little Red Rider from the Hood (story, illustrations and design) |
2004 | Marcotti, Sheri | Women’s Self Image and the Media (development of content and informational website) |
2004 | Mesiti, Georia | Know your food. (awareness campaign about genetically modified foods) |
2004 | Rakowski, Kelly | title (documentation missing) |
2004 | Williams, Ryan | Breast Cancer Awareness (information design focussed on importance of preventative testing) |
2004 | Zinowko, Bartosz | Obscure : Dreams of a Chronophobiac (two books, elaborate collaged imagery, narrative and other text) |
2003 | Cawrse, Sara | StarSeed (identity and merchandising for business offering polarity massage, yoga, and foot reflexology) |
2003 | Dello Russo, Dave | Synaesthesia (Orange Line animation of Dave’s Brain Guided Tour, &c.) |
2003 | Dullea, Chris (Winders) | Torn (experience of growing up as a multi-racial (Irish-Hawaiian) individual) |
2003 | Hanscom, Bill | Dumb Angel Smiles (typographic and other experiments relating to “the Beach Boys’ album Pet Sounds”) |
2003 | Henry, Melodie | Dispelling the Stigma of Schizophrenia (promoting social awareness of this condition) |
2003 | Johnson, Mary | Lipstick (documentation lost) |
2003 | McGrath, Kaitlin | Casa Bella, Pysany (identity of business selling gift baskets for “people who have everything;” Ukrainian Eggs) |
2003 | Robertson, Dave | Singular Icons (story of how small things contribute to global warming) |
2003 | Romagnoli, Gian | A Wasteland Paradise (reflection on experience of being away from home; book) |
2003 | Rustic, Beck | bag lunch (identity, packaging for (actual) line of “bath products that smell like food”) |
2003 | Tallos, Nell | the half-tone dot (transience, estrangement, impermanence and displacement) |
2003 | Toher, Robert | Transient Flourishes (video and sound piece, packaging, posters) |
2003 | Wada, Toshiyuki | ImportExport (research and informational website relating to MiniDiscs, that are/were popular in Japan) |
2003 | Zevitas, Sandra | The Typographic Anatomy of Garamond (book, posters) |
2002 | Adamowicz, Andrew | coffeemaker (product design; prototype; advertising) |
2002 | Cotte, John | Modern Continental (identity redesign, applications) |
2002 | Fletcher, Luke | Gentleman’s Fiction, Beowulf (magazine vehicle for creative writing; book design) |
2002 | Hurley, Jason | Creature Company (business plan, development, identity, packaging of a line of premium pet supplies) |
2002 | Ialynytchev, Greg | packaging; illustrated learner’s dictionary; informational website on sadness (vs clinical depression) |
2002 | Jarnes, Lorraine | Why We Vote the Way We Do; I Regret Nothing and Other Life-Sustaining Illusions (book content and design) |
2002 | Litvinov, Karina (Molla) | Riga, Land of the Dead (typeface design; bilingual (English and Russian) book on a gulag prison site) |
2002 | Marchand, Alaina | Laurel K. Hamilton book covers |
2002 | Pandapas, Sarah (White) | Shirts Off in Advance; Discord Records (punk band identity; graphic standards manual; annual report design) |
2002 | Riskal, Demitri | Guitar Basics (development of a guide to playing guitar) |
2002 | San, Savath | Richardson Electronics; Sin Si Samuth (identity redesign; website devoted to Cambodian singer) |
2002 | Souza, Allison | Abandonment (series of books on different senses of abandonment; text, photography) |
2002 | Sullivan, Crystal | C21 Cosmetics; Pigeons & Gargoyles : Twelve Nights in Paris (identity design; writing and design of book) |
2001 | Bosello, Walter | box lamp, keyboards and the humanity of keyboards (product designs, deconstructions) |
2001 | Carey, Andrew | Reading Images; What does one need to become a designer? |
2001 | Chapell, Jennifer | Conversations with God; library wayfinding system (bookdesign; wayfinding/signage) |
2001 | Corso, Shane | I want to change the world; newspaper tragedies (awareness campaigns; books) |
2001 | DeCotret, Nicole | Play in the child development process (education; letterpress experiments) |
2001 | Majczak, Bartosz | Sacred Geometry (visionary artists, inventors and writers) |
2001 | Matte, Kendra | books, bookness — definitions of the book (book design and experimentation) |
1999 | Cerasuolo, Anthony | Joshua; Being First Born (writing, illustration and design of books) |
1999 | Rey, François | The Dalblair (book, &c. on shipwreck of three-masted ship off the coast of Mauritius in February 1902) |
1998 | Grigoryan, Alex | Emerald City | train of thought (typographic and visual presentation of poetry) |
1998 | Lee, Kevin | design | processed | design (typographic and CMYK printing experimentation) |
1998 | Pasquini, Tom | Swamp Foot (story, illustration and design co-creation with Richard Bradish) |
directory last updated 20210224