Graduates

Carolyn Hsu

BS in Interaction Design — Interaction Design
Course:
152 Communication Design 2: Information & Context
Faculty:
Allison Goodman

Scaled Installation : Life and Plastic

"Our overzealousness in doing too much of a good thing is killing us from the outside in." Sequence Project from Comm Des 2, interpreting a quote from an essay praising the invention of plastic, and creating a scaled physical installation representing the deeply interwoven complexities between man's tendencies to over-consume and the once miraculous plastic material.

Learning Outcomes:

Working with scaled models (understanding the impact of a design that is 40 inches long versus 40 feet long, or on a digital display) Exploring meaningful, thought provoking relationships between two randomly assigned topics (Life Expectancy and Plastic) Impact of size disparities in large scale typography

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