CASE STUDIES

The Mini-Crisis Survival Kit started with a cigar-box dimension and an assignment to fill it with any kit you could invent. The student (Jenn Buch) needed to learn how to construct the box, conceive the concept and what would be necessary to make it functional, meaningful, and fun with great aesthetics, typography, and good writing.  The leather, board and paper book on the right develops skills in construction and sequencing that become useful for exhibit design, book layout and even planning animation.  A team of graduates and undergraduates tackled an educational game about wetlands ecology for the eighth-grade level. This was created as a pilot for a National Science Foundation Grant. Skills of teamwork and distribution of tasks will prove invaluable for many projects in design. A brand for the Mon River Trails speaks of the trail origins and the human effort in creating this recreational possibility in a hilly state. The symbolic drawing style is critical for communicating poetically and aesthetically, while being clearly understood.  Play-vites was an advanced web class solution to audience development for a children’s discover museum. Students worked as volunteers with the client before proposing the idea, then did user-testing to make sure it appealed and functioned for the children and parents who would use it.