Projects
PROVISIONS
Provisions is an effort to create a set of moments that inspire personal journeying and reflection.
Inspired by the ideologies behind the vast genre of self-help, specifically those of Joseph Campbell's 17-step Hero's Journey, Lucy Van Pelt's Psychiatric Help Booth, and Alcoholics Anonymous, I set out to create a more abstract, modern framework for meditation and self-reflection. This was realized through a set of three booklets that combine pixelated imagery from water parks with a loose written narrative I created to guide the reader through the different stages and experiences associated with transitions. These booklets were paired with a visualization exercise that was recorded in collaboration with Colin Ward. Listen here.
Provisions was completed as my graphic design thesis work at the Maryland Institute College of Art.
Next Wave Festival Program
An accordion-fold book created to make the programming and calendar for the Brooklyn Academy of Music’s Next Wave Festival available to the public. Keeping in mind the experimental nature of the festival, the book gives heavy focus to distorted, low-res imagery of the festival’s performances, and treats the typographic information as interruptions to the visual experience.
Bulk
Born from my frustration with the current system for purchasing bulk foods, this project aims to
restructure that process through design that is focused on ease for the consumer. Elements
of the system include paper bags, re-usable containers, pre-coded stickers, bulk bin labels, an instructional poster, and a rendering of the grocery store environment to show how these elements would work in situ.
Collaborations
BALTIMORE: OPEN CITY EXHIBITION
An open city is a place where everyone feels welcome, regardless of such things as wealth, race, age, or religion. In every neighborhood of an open city, one feels like he or she belongs. However in Baltimore—as in most American metropolitan areas—issues like housing discrimination, bad public transportation, and the privatization of public space separate people, and create an uneven distribution of health, wealth, and education.
For the exhibition Baltimore: Open City, students of Maryland Institute College of Art’s Exhibition Development Seminar invited scholars, activists, community-based organizations, local artists, and visiting artist Damon Rich to create a series of installations, workshops, and other public programs that investigate the ways in which Baltimore is and is not an open city. We welcome our neighbors to join us in exploring what a more open city might look and feel like.
As part of the year-long course Exhibition Development Seminar, I helped put on the exhibition described above. I was both a member of the curatorial team, which was responsible for narrowing the scope of the exhibition and choosing the work featured, as well as the graphic design team, who produced all exhibition graphics and accompanying publications, including the gallery guide and catalog (see below).
BALTIMORE: OPEN CITY PUBLICATIONS
In conjunction with the Baltimore: Open City exhibition, a catalog and gallery guide were produced in order to serve as documentation of the work and events in addition to being guides to the open city. Both publications were designed in collaboration with Becky Slogeris and Chris McCampbell.
Gallery guide printed at Linco Printing in Long Island City, Queens.
Catalog printed by Ridge Printing in Baltimore, MD.
REAL FOOD FARM
Real Food Farm is an urban farming initiative located on 6 acres of Clifton Park in Baltimore City. Focused on bringing real food to the neighborhoods surrounding the farm, most lacking access to healthy, fresh food, Real Food Farm partnered with the Center for Design Practice to help accomplish this. After a few weeks of working on the farm, we worked with them to update their graphic identity, while researching ways to make their evening markets more successful. This was accomplished through the buildout of a former newspaper delivery truck, which is currently being used to both deliver fresh produce to homes and as a mobile produce stand.
Collaborators: Lauren Adams, Bryan Connor, Aron Fay, Chris Muccioli, Kailie Parrish, and Becky Slogeris
Men and Families Center Newsprint Piece
A result of long-term community engagement at the Men and Families Center in East Baltimore, this large-format publication was designed to tell its story and promote its services to potential donors. All content gathered, written, and designed in collaboration with, Claire Mueller and James Holly as part of the Design Coalition course at the Maryland Institute College of Art.
Good Balloons
Given the parameter to “touch someone’s heart with design,” a team of five students, myself included, screenprinted these balloons to hand out in the Charles Village neighborhood of Baltimore. By simply asking pedestrians if they would like a “Good Balloon,” we were able to engage with and bring cheer to a random sampling of community members. Completed in partnership with James Holly, Claire Mueller, Aron Fay and Nick Hum as part of the Design Coalition course at Maryland Institute College of Art.
Hello
I graduated from Maryland Institute College of Art with a BFA in Graphic Design in May. This is a sampling of the work I have completed and the ideas I have pursued in the past few years.
Since then, I have interned at Thumb Projects.
I am now in New York at MTWTF
Please feel free to email with any questions or comments at jenna.kaminsky@gmail.com
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