Students at Boston University Animate The Archive
Boston University Graphic Design students created kinetic typographic expressions of items from The Archive
Students animated their favorite item from The Archive
Almost 40 design students in a Kinetic Typography course at Boston University have researched items from the People’s Graphic Design Archive. Students are asked to animate a favorite item from The Archive, revealing the dynamism inherent in history. Guided by faculty members Mary Yang, Brockett Horne, and graduate assistants Dhwani Garg and Micaela Sato Bonelli, students offered an analysis of the grid, typography, and imagery from their selections to create storyboards that were developed into looping animations.
below, left: Andrea Lander Vegas created an animated version of a Dynamite magazine cover from 1976.
center: Kate Ragosta captured the collage feeling of a lecture poster from 2010 while bringing movement to the design.
right: Annika Pyo animated an ad from the French graphic magazine Caractère in 1965 for the typeface Univers.
below, left: Amina Hachimura chose to animate the cover of Car Craft magazine from May 1961, designed by Ed “Big Daddy” Roth.
center: Riley Fitzpatrick gave life to a City Limits publication cover, originally designed by David King in 1982.
right: Pink Chotikakovit animated a jazz poster designed by Takenobu Igarashi from 1980.
below, left: Hailey Wang chose to animate the cover of O homem nu (The Nude Man) by Fernando Sabino, published by Editora do Autor, 1960 and designed by Bea Feitler.
center: Yuka Masamura animated a classic poster by Ikko Tanaka, Nihon Buyo, from 1981
right: Owen Casey animated an important poster, Silence = Death, designed by Avram Finkelstein in 1987.
below, left: Gloria Huang animated a 1979 poster by Nathan Felde about Helvetica.
center: Simone Dudar animated Jamie Reid's iconic punk flyer for the Sex Pistols’ God Save the Queen album, 1977.
right: Julia Cheung animated an important poster for Women in Design by Sheila Levrant de Bretteville.
below, left: Kelly Guo used repetition to animated a poster for the Montreaux Jazz Festival from 1985, designed by Shigeo Fukuda.
center: Hayley Clark created a lyrical animation for a Mozart album cover designed by Ellen Raskin in 1956.
right: Luci Barrett animated a poster for the March 11, 1968 show at Sacramento Memorial Auditorium with Cream and The Grateful Dead.
below, left: Priya Landrigan animated a poster for Lesbian Avengers from c. 1992.
center: Shi Shi Jacobs captured the feeling of kinetic salt in this version of a poster for the Jeonnam Folk Culture Special Exhibition designed by Jaemin Lee in 2011.
right: Stephanie Liu animated an advertisement for the 1983 exhibition match between Bjorn Borg and Roscoe Tanner.
below, left: Selena Huang animated a German train ticket from 1999, with attention to iconography and how the ticket was made and used.
center: Vanessa Perez reimagined a poster by Gail Swanlund from 1991, “Artist Survival Skills.”
right: Leila Garner animated a screenprint by Sister Corita Kent from 1966.
below, right: Lily Bailey created an animated version of the first issue of Playboy magazine, featuring Marilyn Monroe from 1953.
center: Sheryl Peng animated a Nikon SP advertisement from 1957, designed by Yusaku Kamekura.
right: F. Angelo Russo created an animated version of the cover for John Berger’s Permanent Red book from 1979.
below, left: Grace Hong imagined a moving version of a commemorative postage stamp for the 14th Asian Advertising Congress, 1984.
center: Yeji Kim animated an early Apple ad with illustration by Matt Groenig from 1989.
right: Alexandra Purdy created an animated version of Bjorn Aronson’s Disneyland poster for Autopia in Tomorrowland, 1955.
below, left: Sarah Sutton created an animated version of the cover to Paul Shaw’s book about the New York Subway.
center: Nue Yamazaki worked with a grid to create an animated advertisement for a Japanese department store based on Kashiwa Sato’s original design.
right: Seoyeon (Chloe) Lee animated a poster by Colombian designer Marta Granados from 2000.
below, left: Comfort Omotunde created a mesmerizing animation for the cover of Little White Lies from 2010 by Siggi Eggertsson.
center: Hector Rivera animated the iconic Doritos packaging from 1968.
right: Abigail Conant animated an exhibition announcement called Freaks フリークス from 1995 featuring fun inversions.
below, left: Zoey Jeong reimagined an advertisement for Radiant Color through motion.
center: Zihan Tang animated the cover of City Limits by David King from 1982.
right: Rashina Wang created an animated version of a 1974 newspaper cover.
below, top left: Andrea Rojas Doupovec created a dimensional animation of a Venezuelan stamp originally designed by Nedo Mion Ferrario.
center: Lilia Geguchadze animated an advertisement for GUM department store, a Russian Constructivist design for light bulbs, by Alexander Rodchenko from 1923.
right: Katelyn Murphy animated a radio postcard from the 1960s, “Lightning On the Beach.”
bottom left: Nicky Abreu animated a Peace poster originally designed by Gere Kavanaugh in 1970.
below, left: Dar Saravia animated a poster by Sister Corita Kent.
center:Heather Davies animated a complex cover of STEP inside magazine with art direction by Gail Anderson.
right: Bonnie Lin animated a typeface specimen, “Homage to Malevich,” designed by Elaine Lustig Cohen.
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The instructional team for this project includes professors Mary Yang and Brockett Horne as well as Graduate Teaching Assistants Dhwani Garg and Micaela Sato Bonelli.