Endnotes:
2024 KCAI Senior Show
Type/Image, KCAI, Spring 2024
Endnotes marks the end of the graphic design seniors and the beginning of their creative journey beyond KCAI. The senior graphic design cohort embraces a research-heavy approach to design. An integral part of their process is the act of making and giving notes– both for themselves and their peers.
Designers:
Senior Class, ’24
Branding Collection︎︎︎
2024 KCAI Senior Show
Type/Image, KCAI, Spring 2024
Endnotes marks the end of the graphic design seniors and the beginning of their creative journey beyond KCAI. The senior graphic design cohort embraces a research-heavy approach to design. An integral part of their process is the act of making and giving notes– both for themselves and their peers.
Designers:
Senior Class, ’24
Branding Collection︎︎︎
Sprung Formal
Issue 19
Interdisciplinary Inquiry, KCAI, Spring 2024
Sprung Formal is a literary arts journal published annually in association with the Liberal Arts and Graphic Design Departments at KCAI. Established in 2005, Sprung Formal is edited and produced by students who pride themselves on combining professional content with professional-grade student work.
Designers (’25):
A.C.
Destiny Bruck
Madelyn Dreyer
Frances Lawes
Joscelyn Lindsey
Sefira Robinson
Bei Hu
Shuang Wu
Website︎︎︎
SF Issue 19︎︎︎
Interdisciplinary Inquiry, KCAI, Spring 2024
Sprung Formal is a literary arts journal published annually in association with the Liberal Arts and Graphic Design Departments at KCAI. Established in 2005, Sprung Formal is edited and produced by students who pride themselves on combining professional content with professional-grade student work.
Designers (’25):
A.C.
Destiny Bruck
Madelyn Dreyer
Frances Lawes
Joscelyn Lindsey
Sefira Robinson
Bei Hu
Shuang Wu
Website︎︎︎
SF Issue 19︎︎︎
Greenthumb Packaging
Intermediate Design, Virginia Tech, Fall 2024
How create a series of typography-centered editable product packages? How to keep visual language consistant throughout packages in different shapes and sizes? Prompt is inspired from Andrew Walters’ Branding class.
Green Thumb is a box designed to help aspiring home gardeners step into the world of plants with ease, and grow their "green thumb". Rooted in eco-conscious values, Green Thumb is natural sustainable, and beginner-friendly. Green Thumb equips you with the essentials to cultivate life and reconnect with nature one box at a time.
Designer
Carys Derolf, ’26
Intermediate Design, Virginia Tech, Fall 2024
How create a series of typography-centered editable product packages? How to keep visual language consistant throughout packages in different shapes and sizes? Prompt is inspired from Andrew Walters’ Branding class.
Green Thumb is a box designed to help aspiring home gardeners step into the world of plants with ease, and grow their "green thumb". Rooted in eco-conscious values, Green Thumb is natural sustainable, and beginner-friendly. Green Thumb equips you with the essentials to cultivate life and reconnect with nature one box at a time.
Designer
Carys Derolf, ’26
Toska Translation Project
Visual Inquiry, KCAI, Fall 2023
Untranslatable is designed to challenge students to visually explore the complexities of multilingualism, translation, and the myth of equivalency in graphic design. Students will also experiment with diacritical marks and expanded character sets to create a unique and culturally rich visual narrative. The words dictionary is sourced and adapted from one of MassArt Graphic Design class project.
“No single word in English renders all the shades of toska. At its deepest and most painful, it is a sensation of great spiritual anguish, often without any specific cause.”
Designer
Kai Ruiz, ’27
Visual Inquiry, KCAI, Fall 2023
Untranslatable is designed to challenge students to visually explore the complexities of multilingualism, translation, and the myth of equivalency in graphic design. Students will also experiment with diacritical marks and expanded character sets to create a unique and culturally rich visual narrative. The words dictionary is sourced and adapted from one of MassArt Graphic Design class project.
“No single word in English renders all the shades of toska. At its deepest and most painful, it is a sensation of great spiritual anguish, often without any specific cause.”
Designer
Kai Ruiz, ’27
Vitality Kombucha Packaging
Intermediate Design, Virginia Tech, Fall 2024
How create a series of typography-centered editable product packages? How to keep visual language consistant throughout packages in different shapes and sizes? Prompt is inspired from Andrew Walters’ Branding class.
Designer
Riley Garner, ’26
Intermediate Design, Virginia Tech, Fall 2024
How create a series of typography-centered editable product packages? How to keep visual language consistant throughout packages in different shapes and sizes? Prompt is inspired from Andrew Walters’ Branding class.
Designer
Riley Garner, ’26
Hangul Onomatopoeia
Poster Series
Cross-Culture, Cross-Space, Virginia Tech, Fall 2025
co-lecturers:
Halim Lee, Soo Min Lee
This project explores Hangul as both a typographic system and an expressive design medium. Through research, lettering, and motion, students investigate the history and structure of Hangul, then reinterpret Korean onomatopoeia through custom lettering, posters, and animation. The assignment bridges cultural study and creative experimentation, showing how type can convey sound, rhythm, and meaning beyond linguistic boundaries.
Designers:
Chelsea Hernandez, ’27
Trent Estes, ’27
Demetrya Dye, ’27
Tyler Dye, ’27
Madelin McKinley, ’27
Ainsley Smith, ’26
Poster Series
Cross-Culture, Cross-Space, Virginia Tech, Fall 2025
co-lecturers:
Halim Lee, Soo Min Lee
This project explores Hangul as both a typographic system and an expressive design medium. Through research, lettering, and motion, students investigate the history and structure of Hangul, then reinterpret Korean onomatopoeia through custom lettering, posters, and animation. The assignment bridges cultural study and creative experimentation, showing how type can convey sound, rhythm, and meaning beyond linguistic boundaries.
Designers:
Chelsea Hernandez, ’27
Trent Estes, ’27
Demetrya Dye, ’27
Tyler Dye, ’27
Madelin McKinley, ’27
Ainsley Smith, ’26
Whisker Cat Cafe & Adoption Future Experience Design
Interaction Design I, Texas State University, Spring 2024
How might we create both short-term and long term digital solutions for a social cause?
Designer
Jackson Pickett, ’26
Interaction Design I, Texas State University, Spring 2024
How might we create both short-term and long term digital solutions for a social cause?
Designer
Jackson Pickett, ’26
온음 (oneum) Hangul Music Evolution:
Album Redesign & Website (1996–2024)
Cross-Culture, Cross-Space, Virginia Tech, Fall 2024
Explore hierarchy and harmony in multi-script typography. Co-hosted by Forough Abadian.
Designers
Crystal Cho, ’26
Suin Kim, ’26
Website Prototype
Cross-Culture, Cross-Space, Virginia Tech, Fall 2024
Explore hierarchy and harmony in multi-script typography. Co-hosted by Forough Abadian.
Designers
Crystal Cho, ’26
Suin Kim, ’26
Website Prototype
Waldeinsamkeit Translation Project
Advanced Typography, Virginia Tech, Spring 2025
Untranslatable is designed to challenge students to visually explore the complexities of multilingualism, translation, and the myth of equivalency in graphic design. Students will also experiment with diacritical marks and expanded character sets to create a unique and culturally rich visual narrative. The words dictionary is sourced and adapted from one of MassArt Graphic Design class project.
Designer
Carly Walstad, ’27
Advanced Typography, Virginia Tech, Spring 2025
Untranslatable is designed to challenge students to visually explore the complexities of multilingualism, translation, and the myth of equivalency in graphic design. Students will also experiment with diacritical marks and expanded character sets to create a unique and culturally rich visual narrative. The words dictionary is sourced and adapted from one of MassArt Graphic Design class project.
| “The German word waldeinsamkeit refers to the feeling of being alone in the woods, solitude, and a connectedness to nature. It consists of two words: “wald,” meaning forest, and “einsamkeit,” meaning loneliness or solitude. It hints at both the feeling of being alone in the woods and also at a peaceful oneness with nature.” |
Designer
Carly Walstad, ’27
RISO Workshop–
Self Reflection,
Introduction to Graphic Design, MICA, Fall 2022 + Spring 2023 & Narratives and Interaction, VT, Fall 2025
This series of RISO prints encourages students to experiment the beauty and imperfection of RISO with the self-exploration topic by using symbol, index and icon.
Size:
8in x 8in
11in x 17in
Techniques:
Risograph
Adobe After Effects
Adobe Photoshop
Adobe Illustrator
Designers (left to right)
MICA-
Emory Helinski, ’25
Sun Mun, ’26
Ashley Kim, ’26
Solli Kim, ’26
Kevin Amaya, ‘26
Sage Freed, ’26
Grace Birch, ’26
VT-
Alexandra Curtin, ’26
Gabrielle Dudley, ’26
Riley Garner, ’26
Christopher Smith, ’26
Self Reflection,
Introduction to Graphic Design, MICA, Fall 2022 + Spring 2023 & Narratives and Interaction, VT, Fall 2025
This series of RISO prints encourages students to experiment the beauty and imperfection of RISO with the self-exploration topic by using symbol, index and icon.
Size:
8in x 8in
11in x 17in
Techniques:
Risograph
Adobe After Effects
Adobe Photoshop
Adobe Illustrator
Designers (left to right)
MICA-
Emory Helinski, ’25
Sun Mun, ’26
Ashley Kim, ’26
Solli Kim, ’26
Kevin Amaya, ‘26
Sage Freed, ’26
Grace Birch, ’26
VT-
Alexandra Curtin, ’26
Gabrielle Dudley, ’26
Riley Garner, ’26
Christopher Smith, ’26
