Graphic design students work on displays for Water for Food Conference

Advanced Graphic Design and Typography II classes from the Department of Art and Art History created an exhibition to run concurrently with the Water for Food Institute's Global Conference.
Advanced Graphic Design and Typography II classes from the Department of Art and Art History created an exhibition to run concurrently with the Water for Food Institute's Global Conference.

Graphic design students work on displays for Water for Food Conference

calendar icon26 Apr 2016    

Lincoln, Neb.--The Advanced Graphic Design and Typography II classes from the graphic design program in the Department of Art and Art History presents "Impetus--an exhibition of visual communications about Water, Food, Fuel and a changing environment." The exhibition runs concurrently with the University of Nebraska–Lincoln's Water for Food Institute's Global Conference happening now at Nebraska Innovation Campus.

The projects, exercises, assignments, and activities established conditions to raise questions, thoroughly examine and then visualize intersections of food, fuel or water and their relationship to a changing climate.

Advanced Graphic design students designed postage stamp systems, promotional posters, campaigns, videos, and interactive installations. Typography II students published a book of Grimm’s Fairy Tales, adapted to visualize these familiar narratives in contemporary times. The work primarily speaks about a future with a greater population, fewer natural resources and the impact we have on our environment.

"What a wonderful opportunity to design an exhibition with a very hard working and talented group of students," said Assistant Professor of Art Stacy Asher. "They transformed a walkway into an exciting exhibition of visual communications."

The displays are located on the 1st and 2nd-floor walkways of the Nebraska Innovation Common and will be up through the summer.