I took high school classes at CCS. The possibility of putting together graduate studies at CCS is studying next to designers of other disciplines. You know, like if you go to Yale you only have architects to talk to, and if you go to Cal Arts you only have other graphic designers to talk to. But when you’re at a school just like CCS, the possibility of kind of cross-disciplinary work in design is a very alluring thing. It’s a place that exemplifies both the glories of the American past and the utter emergency that we’re finding ourselves in. You can pretend it doesn’t exist in other places but you can’t fake it there. The idea of design having a critical role in shaping what kind of solutions or future there might be, I think, is all the more salient in a place like that.
Today I am working on a project with a big landscape arcitecture firm in Philadelphia named Olin & Partners and we are producing a book on their work – which is all around the country – and trying to decide how to represent the phenomenon of wandering through gardens and parks in the flat space of a page.
MFA Advisor | Lorraine Wild
