May 2, 2013
Designers naturally focus on product development, marketing and advertising. But this year, Adream Blair-Early and Amy Decker of UWM’s Department of Art and Design charged their 37 graduating seniors to look beyond commerce and think about storytelling in Resolution 2013: Intersections of Milwaukee. The show runs 5:30-9 p.m. Friday and noon to 2:30 p.m. Saturday, May 3-4, on the sixth floor of UWM’s Kenilworth Building,1925 E. Kenilworth Place.
The students began by choosing Milwaukee “makers and shakers” to interview and photograph. They created designs to visualize the intersections that the people shaping the city. Through innovative design, the students present both well known and lesser-known people who are woven into the fabric that makes Milwaukee the special place that it is. Blair-Early and Deckert believe that these projects teach more than good visual design. They embed the concept of design for the common good.
Read the full article at ThirdCoast Digest.