Peeling Back the Truth on Chiquita Banana
Project Description In this project, I worked collaboratively with three other team members to develop a zine that explores how Chiquita, a well-known and established banana brand has worked to […]
Peeling Back the Truth on Chiquita Banana
Case Study: Betty Crocker Zine
Project Description For this project, we we challenged to create a zine as a group about a large brand that we were assigned. As an added challenge, we were only […]
Case Study: Betty Crocker Zine
Case Study: Mrs. Butterworth Zine
Project Description For the image project we were put into groups and were asked to create a zine on a specific brand and how it supports the dominant culture (light/pale […]
Case Study: Mrs. Butterworth Zine
Home-opoly: Data Visualization
Project Description The project that inspired this design revolved around data visualization. Data is vital to communicating value, as well as understanding what data is most important to specific people […]
Home-opoly: Data Visualization
Spread the Word: Black Lives Matter
Project Description This project propelled Special Topics Design Studio students into our neighborhoods in search of type specimens that would benefit from a dual-language redesign. Specifically, we each located a […]
Spread the Word: Black Lives Matter
Dual-Language Type Design
Project Description The goal of this project was to redesign a Latin based type specimen to be a dual-language format with both English and Arabic. The Arabic language has very […]
Dual-Language Type Design
Sycamore Street Revitalization Project
Project Description The purpose of this project was to visualize data for a specific neighborhood, Sycamore Street, in Hamilton, Ohio, in an unbiased way, and then compare those findings with […]
Sycamore Street Revitalization Project
Maria Veracruz – Data Set
by Elijah Vincent Project Description For my Data Collection project, I decided to help out a (fictional) little girl from Ecuador named Maria Veracruz. She’s 8 years old, speaks in […]
Maria Veracruz – Data Set
Case Study: Oxford West Redesign (Arabic and English)
Project Description This project introduced the goal of redesigning a local sign of our choice into a dual-language format featuring Latin and Arabic typography. Ultimately, we needed to combine Western […]
Case Study: Oxford West Redesign (Arabic and English)
Mrs. Buttersworthless
Instructions Your final case study should share the story of your project from start to finish and should include several elements you defined, researched, and created over the semester. Each […]
Mrs. Buttersworthless
Case Study: Design Project—Image
Hailey Thies
Undergraduate Student
Project Description For this project, we were assigned a company as well as a group, and we were charged to make a “zine” that appropriated the historical, cultural, and underlying […]
Case Study: Design Project—Image
Designing with Type: Case Study
Designing with Arabic Type The class was challenged to go into our neighborhoods and find a type specimen “in the wild.” This specimen would then be reimagined to allow for […]
Designing with Type: Case Study
