Senior Showcase
Project: Capstone
In their final semester, seniors develop a research-based, self-authored capstone project. We ask them to identify an opportunity or problem where design can play an important role. As graphic designers, there’s no boundaries on how our creativity can improve, support, educate, or facilitate an experience. Often the capstone comes from a personal experience or interest and the results of the student’s efforts are large-scale, multi-component design experiences that address a variety of diverse and complex problems.
Tessa Peña
Boulder
Boulder is a toolkit that provides resources for stroke survivors, as well as some information for their caregivers. This toolkit allows stroke survivors to practice rehab at home, providing them with the guidance and resources to aid them in their recovery process. Boulder also provides caregivers with the information, guidance, and resources to aid them in assisting and/or managing stroke survivors in their recovery process.
Jee Ea Gay
My Story
Oftentimes living in the United States, the majority of Americans and other ethnic groups are not familiar with my ethnic background and culture due to the unpopularity of the Karen people. Which led me to why I want to share my personal story of coming to America to better inform non-immigrants about the diverse ethnic backgrounds living in America, and I want it to serve as an inspiration for other immigrants to share their stories and be a resource for those thinking about immigrating themselves.
Anna-Marie Belfon
Cadence
Cadence is a music education and therapy program used by healthcare providers and patients in the recovery process for substance-use disorder. This program is built on the 4 interventions of cognitive-behavioral music therapy and aims to help the patient re-invest their time and have an easier recovery.
Peyton Dobson
Auracle
Auracle is a mental health app that recognizes the daily struggles of mental health to help the user work with their anxieties instead of against them. The app is a story driven experience that immerses the user into anxious/depressive situations and teaches them how to cope in these tough moments. Also, the app provides multiple reflective exercises and prompts to help the user in their journey to self acceptance.
Maura Farrell
Therapaw
How might we... create companionship for older adults in need of mental health support with older dogs that are often overlooked in shelters?
TheraPaw is an online platform and mailing system to help adults experiencing any form of mental health issues and connect them with adult dogs in shelters. Our digital features include a website with the questionnaire, “paw-files” of the dogs, and opportunities to watch the dogs live on camera. This organization aims to promote the health benefits of animal interactions by matching a person to a dog in a local shelter.
Cole Tomko
Avalanche Snowboards
Problem: How might we make snowboarding more accessible, sustainable and price friendly for people wanting to start snowboarding?
Solution: Avalanche’s service is to provide a rent to own, pick up at a location service on snowboard gear at a low cost to allow more people to start snowboard.
Nick DiNallo
Fonft
Web3 represents the next phase of the internet, one that focuses on shifting power from from big tech companies to individual users. The socially transparent nature of Web3 has the potential to reshape the creator economy. Fonfts is pushing boundaries by introducing the newest way to use a typeface. For the first time ever, a typeface lives as a functioning utility as well as an investment. Existing as a collection of 11,111 unique, hand generated Non-Fungible Tokens, each come with an exclusive download link containing Fonfts' Collection 1 Modular Display typeface. We're keeping it simple: Mint, receive and invest. HODL your 1st edition NFT as a collectable or flip it and be a part of blockchain history. Interested? Learn more at nickdinallodesign.com.
Bella Dwyer
Community Cats
Problem: In America alone, there is an estimate of 70 MILLION stray and feral cats. There are efforts to help this population of cats, such as TNR and adoption, but these resources cannot uphold the rising numbers of cats.
Solution: Community Cats is a platform that helps stray and feral cats by activating communities. We value and recognize the volunteers who are already attending to these cats. We aim to bring these people and their efforts to a focused, online, location. By doing so, we hope that more community cats will be assisted.
Matthew Michalak
Free Will
Given the amount of freedom we had to come up with our own capstone project and make it more personal to us was something I was really excited about. I love drawing and doing character illustrations and so I thought it was a perfect opportunity to challenge myself to make my own characters, my own story, and piece it all together into something special. Free Will is a story about two young people living in a hopeless land that are about to take an incredible risk for a reward beyond their comprehension.
