The graphic design elective course 2d/3d, taught by faculty member Anther Kiley, recently wrapped up with an exhibition of student work in the CalArts Lime and Mint galleries.

The course set out to investigate translation between two and three dimensions, as practical technique, as rhetorical device, and as subject for critical inquiry. Responding 
to a series of readings and viewings, students in the course were challenged to create work that questions or expands the way we conceive of, articulate, and work with space in graphic design. Amongst the pieces on view were: a 3d homage to Josef Albers’ ‘Homage 
to a Square,’ browser icon bracelet charms, 3d software surface texture wrapping paper, and a lenticular window into the adjoining gallery.

The design of the exhibition took inspiration from Jorge Luis Borges’ imagining of a map the same size as the territory it maps, and by the split nature of the gallery space. Physical work was presented in one of the two identical rooms, and a two-dimensional graphic and textual map of that work, constructed from vinyl and dry transfer typography, was presented in the other.
 

Participants:

Margaret Andersen (MFA 2016)
Katie Barger (BFA 2016)
Iris Chung (MFA 2016)
Cassandra Cisneros (MFA 2015)
Henrique Eira (MFA 2016)
Dasol Jung (MFA 2016)
Jessica Lee (MFA 2016)
Noha Khashoggi (MFA 2015)