#student projects

[swordvixen]

A Student Project From 22 Years Ago

Back in 2004 I was taking a film photography class at an American university in London. It was the last year they offered the course before everything went digital, and I just happened to have the exact same model of camera they were lending other students so I didn't have to borrow one which was cool.

We were told to get some Ilford Hp5 and go out and do various prompts and play with different things like depth of field.

I would like very much to reconnect with my professor who is now apparently an editor for a magazine in Munich.

Here is the roll I shot in nearby Richmond Park and hand-developed, scanned from negatives that sat in poor conditions and aged into a rough, ethereal look enhanced by my poor developing technique and the failing light meter battery in the K1000. A feast of wabi-sabi.

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MLK Day

On this Martin Luther King Jr. Day, we take a moment to reflect on the individuals who have fought for and continue to advocate for civil rights and present two letterpress broadsides printed by Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design students in 2010. 

The collection is entitled Everyday Prophets and explores quotes by notable Black activists and artists; Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X, James Baldwin, and Bob Marley. The first broadside printed by Patrick Sharrow examines the ideological tensions between contemporaries Malcolm X and MLK who both sought racial justice but proposed very different routes to get there. Andrea Bartley’s broadside takes a more philosophical perspective featuring quotes from all four visionaries. Bartley’s text is printed over (a hard to digitally capture) embossing of ‘LOVE’. 

View our other MLK Day posts.

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Did it! Done! Dusted!

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by Maximilian Fink, 2017

Diploma Project // Idea Store //Zurich

Studio Adam Caruso ETH Zurich

[pugetsoundarchives]

A fuller answer to a treatise written by Doctor Ferne, by Charles Herle, 1642

This English Civil War era pamphlet is one of my favorite objects in our Special collections! It provides valuable insight into a pivotal era in British history, and one of the history classes last fall expanded on that insight by creating a digital history project about the pamphlet and its author, Charles Herle. We love getting to see how students interact with our collections, and this project was a great example of that.

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BLOG

Can’t think of a better way to wake this blog back up than with a link to a student’s blog project on Shakesfic. Some great readings and analysis here, as well as a list of beautiful fics. (E.g., Nifra Idril’s “Waste Our Lights In Vain”: “There is a door inside Mercutio, in the shape of Romeo. It blows with the wind; open and shut, open and shut.“)

[heatherbrockmixedmedia]

LAPSE // Album Design by Heather Brock

[The design for LAPSE was inspired by one of my Spotify playlists of the same name. These mock-ups were created for one of my digital art classes in which we could choose any project to develop over the 10-week term. The photos used in this project were open source, and generously supplied by Unsplash. Listen now at https://play.spotify.com/…/…/playlist/6o9OXvsWbLAiDd0kjmzaMZ.]