Visual Design Lab Academic Year in Review 2023-2024

News

• Student Batool Al Tameemi won the contest for a new logo for Abu Dhabi Art
• The program acquired a Risograph duplicator to expand the possibilities of design and printmaking
• The Visual Design Lab (C3-112) underwent a renovation that doubled the seating space and provided several new work and seminar spaces
• Student assistant Pauline Wee redesigned the NYUAD.DESIGN website
• The students of the Wayfinding class presented proposals to EDF Middle East to engage Gen Z with energy reduction and sustainable practices
• Students of the Design Collective visited the show “Journeys of a Letter” by Wissam Shawkat at the Sharjah Museum of Calligraphy
• 2024 graduates from the NYUAD Design community included Jason Cruz, Megan Marzolf, Alima Kobenova, Marta Pienkosz, and Roudhah Al Mazrouei

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Events

• The CITIES Research Center and NYUAD Design hosted the fifth edition of the Transit Mapping Symposium, bringing over sixty experts in mapping, transit, and wayfinding together to share their expertise
• Calligrapher Wissam Shawkat held a three-day calligraphy workshop for the students of Types of Art
• Arabic design scholar Haytham Nawar lectured in the Foundation of Graphic Design Class
• Student assistant Pauline Wee hosted a microzine-making workshop as part of the university's Wellbeing Week initiative
• Instructor Erin Collins gave an Illustrator workshop for the student body in collaboration with the Design Collective Student Interest Group
• Instructor Erin Collins gave an portfolio workshop for the Arts Proxy Program in collaboration with the Career Development Center
• The play “La Lezione di Teatro / The Acting Class,” co-written by faculty Goffredo Puccetti, had a two day sold-out performances at the Junction Dubai

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Accomplishments

• Faculty Goffredo Puccetti wrote the main essay for the show “Black and White” of the calligrapher Wissam Shawkat, Mestaria Gallery, Dubai
• Faculty Goffredo Puccetti was an invited speaker at the Iconic Representation Conference, NYUAD (January 2024)
• Goffredo Puccetti was an invited speaker at DDX Dubai 2024 on the Future of Design Education
• Christo Award-winning sculpture “Urban Fabric” was installed permanently at Abu Dhabi Rabdan Marina
• Further user research and prototype development was conducted on the convertible abaya project by student assistants Megan Marzolf, Varvara Snitko, and Maitha Alshamshi
• Goffredo Puccetti, Erin Collins, and Marta Pienkosz designed bespoke posters as gifts for each author included in the symposium The City and the Writer: A Global Gathering, hosted by Nathalie Handal
• Inspired by students in the Foundations of Graphic Design class, instructor Erin Collins designed the poster for the student fall production, Ikwe Na Odu
• Student assistant Marta Pienkosz designed the poster for a workshop by Noh drama master Naohiko Umewaka
• The NYUAD Library curated an exhibition of in-house design done for theater at NYUAD
• Faculty Goffredo Puccetti named and designed the logo of Visibility Certainty Conference ’24: A quest for dark and quiet skies; April 2024, New York University Abu Dhabi. Convened by: Simonetta Di Pippo, Andrea V. Macciò

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