Emerge

The reception of Emerge/AIGA, the exhibition of student design work, was held at Loyola Marymonunt University Feb. 7th.
A variety of graph works in the exhibit is enormous rich. From the traditional typographical work to modern application of environmental and video titling, Emerge absolutely had brought talented young designers out. The exploration of applying different materials to typography design is even impressive. Students use materials like hair, cloth/quilt, and even balloon as their design elements for their typographical presentations. I thought CSULA students did a pretty good job by the works that are in the show. Even though, we may not have rich graphical applications as other had, one student even did a converse shoebox out of engraving wood—they must have a machine lab in school. Yet, each work from CSULA is a solid piece of work with a sense of eloquence.

I don’t have any favor in the show. Yet, if I could keep one work out of the exhibit for myself, I would like to have Mary Lee’s poster. Her piece is a white sheet of paper with stamp quality chair with few words on it. One can hardly reads the word from a distance. The word says something like “so little time, so much to do, keep listening…” (I don’t know the last line.) The reason that I like it is because it has a calmness quality especially in such active/fun show. It reflects also of what one might need in his/her daily life. By listening, one puts his/her preference and need in second and honor the voice/sound as his/her primary. By putting the words in such small type, the artist is voicing out her message in a quiet way. If one has the heart to listen—understand the work in this case—one would quiet out and pay attention to the speaker, the word in the poster. We often would learn something new about others and ourselves when we listen to one another.