Design

Alumnus Adam Flint Taylor (MFA 2019) will lecture on “US Elections Design: A Primer And A Manifesto” as part of Design Week Sacramento on Oct. 14 at 9 a.m. (PDT).

Professors Glenda Drew, Department of Design, and Jesse Drew, Department of Cinema and Digital Media, have created new works using innovative technology that are featured in “Memories of a New Future,” an exhibition at the Barn Gallery in Woodland. The installation also includes work by Melissa Chandon, lecturer in Design, and Chris Daubert, MFA Art Studio (2018).

Alum Adriana Arriaga (MFA 2019) was recently featured in the Santa Barbara Independent. In ”La Artista Adriana Arriaga: Next-Generation Chicanx Art in Santa Barbara,” Adriana Arriaga discusses her use of traditional Mexican-American iconography and the role social activism plays in her work and that of a new generation of artists.

Professor Christina Cogdell has recently published an article on the value of low-tech design in the digital journal Biodesigned. In her article, “Why I Prefer Low-Tech Biodesign,”  she discusses living architecture and collaborating with adobe and a redwood tree.

The De3ign Girls, a team consisting of Fiona Micoleau (B.A. communications ’20), Alexandria Reyes (B.A. communications and design ’20), and Isabella Shmelev (B.A. design ’20), took first place in the Brand X Challenge, a national experience design competition for undergraduate design, architecture and marketing students. The trio was awarded $5,000 and internships for their submission, (em)POWERED by Beauty, a Sephora Pop-Up.  

Professors Glenda Drew, design, and Jesse Drew, cinema and digital media, are members of Class Conscious Photographers, who recently installed “A WORKING LENS (A.W.L.)” in front of the John Natsoulas Gallery in Davis. The installation examines the lives of “essential” workers during the pandemic.

Eldy S. Lázaro Vásquez received the Savageau Award at the Arts & Humanities 2020 Graduate Exhibition Virtual Opening Celebration. Eldy, whose work and research are at the intersection of bio-design, Human-Computer Interaction, and wearable technology, is the second recipient of the Savageau Award which is granted to a graduating MFA candidate. 

Over 40 students and Department of Design lecturers Rose Kelly and Christine Knobel from DES70: Introduction to Textile Structures are participating in The 25 Million Stitches Project, a response to the global refugee crisis. 

Places features DES 40B in its coverage of how design and architectural education is being delivered during the COVID-19 crisis. In “Field Notes on Pandemic Teaching: 2″, Professor Simon Sadler discusses how he addresses the challenge of remote teaching, applying ”shock doctrine” to his pedagogy, in his course DES 40B.

Senior Dorian Aguilar recently published an article in Erudition Magazine. Her article, “Humanizing Space: Rubén Martínez’s Iglesia El Rosario,” looks at the role this religious site plays in Salvadoran modernism.

Design graduate student Harold Linde’s proposal, “Immersive Tea Experience Lab,” has been selected by The Green Initiative Fund Grant Committee to receive $20,000 in funding. 

Adam Flint Taylor has been awarded the first Savageau Award for a M.F.A. design student. The award was presented May 30 at the annual graduate student exhibition, on display at the Jan Shrem and Maria Manetti Shrem Museum of Art through June 16.

Here are some highlights from “Impression/Expression,” the 2018 FADS Picnic Day Fashion Show. All photos by Henry Hunyh. Courtesy of FADS

Students from the Department of Design have created “Wonder Wander,” a one-day exhibition, in support of the 2018-19 Campus Community Project, featuring “The Book of Joy: Lasting Happiness in a Changing World” by the Dalai Lama, Desmond Tutu, and Douglas Carlton Abrams. 

The exhibition features work by Alexa Ann Bonomo, Austin Cao, Tracy Corado, Tara Halsted, Eldy Lazaro, Harold Linde, Elizabeth Marley, Jean Menezes, Jonathan Parris, Aurie Stetzel from DES 225 Studio Practice in Design with Professor Glenda Drew.

Susan Taber Avila, professor of Design, recently participated in the World of Wearable Art competition, held in Wellington, New Zealand. Her “In Bloom” creation was a finalist in the awards competition and was included in all of the 2018 30th anniversary performances for this annual event.