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Spring 2025
Grad Studio I
AI && Me:
        (ME?)
        Shifting Identity
        ai && ep
Observe & Quantify:
        620 Bluberries
        Goods Collection
        Appreciation of Fluidity
Structure & Morphology:
        The Iron Giant
        Dune
        Aburaya
Liminality & Transition:
        Intertwine
        How Computers See
        Two Times
Research & Publish:
        A Book Bag
        R&P Volumes 1–3
        Frames and Forms
Spark! Demo Fellowship
       Demo Day Spring 2025

Spring 2024
Grad Studio I
        I am an Alien
        Liminality & Transition
        Time, Space, and Love
        Meet Me In Montgomery
        Research and Publish
        Fracture
Spark! Fellowship
        Demo Day Spring 2024

Fall 2023
Senior Studio
        Roots & Resonance
        Symptoms of Growth
        Fading Echoes
        Touch Fish!
        Anemoia
        Manic
Motion Graphics
        A BLUE COAT
        Tender Buttons
        Beginner’s Mind
        Ink Ballet
        TOPPLE!
Spark! Fellowship
        Demo Day Fall 2023

Spring 2023
Grad Studio I
        The French Dispatch
        TIP Art Kit
        The Happiness Spice
        Starless Night
        Fungus
Spark! Fellowship
        Timo App
        Terrier Tastes App
        Demo Day Spring 2023

Fall 2022

Senior Studio
        ROOM
        Grid Space
        VAR*RL
        The Forms
        Sounds of Comfort
        Impermanence & Unpresent
        Envisioning Energy
        Reliving Memories
        Delusions
Motion Graphics
        Special Memory
        A Little Peace, Please
        808 Learns
        Methodology in Motion
        Star Glide
 Spark! Fellowship
        Demo Day Fall 2022

Spring 2022
Grad Studio I
        Secrets Are No Fun... 
        Many Separate Parts
        Infinite Thoughts
        Feel What You Feel
        Fragments of Life
        The Ramp
        Holographic Music
        Butterflies
        Unlocking the Space Between
        Web of Grey’s Anatomy
Spark! Fellowship
        Demo Day Spring 2022

Fall 2021
Senior Studio
        Fluid Design 
        Uncriticized
        Direct Shot
        Reflection
        Out of Bounds
Motion Graphics
        Stein’s Sprinkles 
        1 Word: Explode
        ASMR
        Transient Light
        Basketball
Spark! Fellowship
        Demo Day Fall 2021

Spring 2021
Grad Studio I
        Analog < 2020 < Digital
        Liminality of the Elevator
        Burn(ing)(ed)
        Drop the Ball
        Shawshank
Junior Type
        Lollapalooza
        Soft Serve
        Strawberry Music Festival
        i’m lovin’ it
        Curtain
Spark! Fellowship
        Demo Day Spring 2021

Fall 2020
Senior Studio 
        27-1024
        Design Nomads
        GenZillennial
        Protest: Impact & Empathy
        A Typographical Metaphor
Motion Graphics
        Dystopia
        Home
        A Piano
        Tender Buttons
        A Red Hat
Spark! Fellowship
        Demo Day Fall 2020

Spring 2020
Grad Studio I
        Sound of color
        Re-Memory
        Fenway Typography
        COVID-19 Crisis
        Limbo
Motion Graphics
        Zoom
        Breakslow
        Layers: Tender Buttons
        Neolithic Age
        Poetry in LA
Spark! Fellowship
        Demo Day Spring 2020

Fall 2019
Senior Studio
        Brand Matrix
        Brand New Worlds
        Experimental Typography
        The Persistence of Posters
        Beasts of No Nation
Interactive Design
        Time Will Heal
        Sounds of Sunday
        Water Waste
        10-eye
        See it All

Spring 2019
Senior Thesis
        Evolution of Words
        Dirty Water
        The Body is The Bind
        Nostalgia 
        Primordial Soup

Fall 2018
Grad Studio I
        Motion
        Unmoved Mover
        Rx Bag
        Organic Color
        Peer Biography

Spring 2018
Senior Thesis
        The Waiting Room
        The Proprium Method
        Tragedy and Growth
        Odalisque Now
        Favors As Currency

Fall 2017
Grad Studio II
        Humor
        XB16
        Index 17
        Meanings
        Layered Narratives


Mark



Student Names: Aidan Ishii, Sherry Ma, Sissi Wu and Miranda Xu
Project Title: Fluid Design
Project Description:
What is design? Who defines, creates, and creates design?

As one of the groups to set up the “Design in Questions” installation, we were assigned to read “Designing Design,” “Graphic Design: Now in Production,” and “What does it mean to decolonize design?” and attempted to question our concerns towards design procedure. Each of us came up with 25 questions and a mind map towards the readings. 
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Mark