Design: After Dark

Contrary to popular belief, we design students do way more than “just sit around and draw all day.” I hope to shed a bit of light onto what we are doing as a department- our efforts, our accomplishments, and some of the nervous breakdowns along the way…
Design Life-Take One
Allow me to set the scene. It was a late night/ early morning in ABC (the Arnold Bernhardt Center for Arts and Humanities- our beloved home and insufferable prison). Being finals week, we had our usual, and much needed twenty-four hour access. I was going mad in our studio up on the eighth floor along with my compadres Trevor and Orlando. We were at the point of hallucination, having been deprived of sleep for the past two days, and going on our third night with out so much as a nap. I think we were preparing for a presentation on our sci-fi time piece designs- the watches that were not really watches…which possessed some fictitious quality or another…invented technologies. Or was it the streetlight project? Hmmm… Oh, it doesn’t matter now. All I can recall clearly was coming back from the bathroom, and hearing Trev’s voice, “Hey Val, you gotta come check this out!” I entered the room to find The Trev alone, and laughing hysterically. He kneeled down on the ground alongside a storage cabinet, delirious and giddy with delight. He opened the door slowly, and out climbed Orlando! Like a nerd stuffed in his own locker, Orlando managed to squeeze himself into a 10″x30″x24″ cabinet (see photo)!! I don’t think I have screamed so loud, or laughed so hard since. We all laughed, and enjoyed our bit of insanity before returning to our dreadful projects.
Speaking of dreadful projects, there are currently some…er… vibrant projects abound in the design department. Junior and senior industrial design students are working on a competition designing a bench for the Cue Art Foundation in New York. ID sophomores are redesigning the famous Waring Blender. Interior design seniors are busy designing the interior of a retail space and the lobby of a chemical company. Interior design juniors are working hard designing a public caf. Illustration and graphic design majors have been illustrating works of literature, designing thematic geometric posters, and designing company advertisements and logos.