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“R: James Doss and I have been collaborating on a sci-fi world building project for a while now. How would you describe your background?

J: What really drew my interest as a kid were the old VHS tapes my dad had of the history of the Apollo program; When I was a little older, I started getting into science fiction. Currently I’m studying aerospace engineering at University of Maryland and just this semester I began teaching a class with the Arts department about hard surface design and using real world engineering principles when creating concept art.

R: How do you approach Farfield when you sit down to work on new material? Do you start with an engineering problem?

J: I start off by coming up with a one sentence description. e.g. “high aerial speed passenger transport”. Then I narrow down more characteristics, e.g. ‘supersonic’, ‘low-cost’. Eventually, I go on to the major aesthetic qualities I want a design to have and how I want it to look, e.g. ‘rugged’ and ‘industrial’. All of these ideas contribute to a single image in my mind and then I go make some thumbnail sketches of it and pick the ones I like best to refine into a final product. In general my process for creating designs begins narratively by identifying the need they fill in the world, then the engineering principles they use to address it. Then you write down what you have and create patches for the gaps that don’t make sense.

R: As an architecture student, my technical education doesn’t have much overlap with yours — however the design approach you describe is nearly identical. How does cross-disciplinary collaboration affect the way you work?

J: For one there are certain things I do now out of force of habit since we started working on Farfield that I wouldn’t have even thought of doing previously. I think it forces me to go back to first principles for a lot of things. There are usually certain assumptions I begin to make when I design something by myself - “this can only be done like so” etc. but most of the time those are the artifacts of poor thinking rather than a physical reality.

R: Do you have any closing comments, or advice to anyone looking to delve into world-building and speculative design?

J: My single biggest piece of advice when delving into world-building is to learn more about the world around you. The universe is crazier and stranger than you would even possibly begin to imagine. Other than that, stick with it - worlds weren’t built in a day!

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This is an interview of James Doss by Roman Manus. J and R have been collaborating on a sci-fi world building project. The title and content are modified.

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“25 FEET off HIGGINS” 002 - The Unofficial Zine by Pratt Students

This Publication has no direct affiliations with Pratt Institute’s Administration or any Faculty Members of Pratt Institute

What is “25 FEET off HIGGINS”

“25 FEET Off Higgins” is a truly student-organized zine publication that aims to showcase student work on an accessible and personal scale. We are un-official, unpolished, non-bureaucratic, and off Higgins.

The book’s title acknowledges that Higgins is where we emerged and was where we were originally from. However, we must stay away from its jurisdiction. 25 feet away from Higgins Hall is where students are allowed to smoke. “25 FEET Off Higgins” is where students are allowed to express themselves freely while having proximity to their base. It is a discussion from beyond Higgins; to be brought back into Higgins.

All, including works, texts, images, and any assets, featured on this Publication does not reflect the opinions of the Zine Production Gutter team.

Works of submissions, including text and visual assets, may have been lightly altered, or cropped by the production gutter for representational and curational reasons.

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Brian Ching | Maddie Mertz Impartial Coordination + Curatorial

Martha

Lucid Dream SYNONYM

Familiar Unfamiliar

Shifted beliefs

Moss > Monument

Ruined Fantasies

Our Land: Water & Grd, Hist. & Ppl Savannah

Carbon Niwas

Endless Towers

Nested Commutes

Micro Housing - Young Professionals

BIOME

3rd Landscape + Ruins

Coffeeshop Sketches

Rambles from Rome

No Face, No Case

Brion Cemetery

Fusion

Movement in Harmony

Body as Dancing Machine

Motion in Between Space

Concrete Convalescence

Something Odd

Roman M., James D., Beck M.

Isabelle Heldenfels

Elif Coskun

Trung-Tin

Jiaxin Liu

Laura Moldovan

Brian H. Ching

Paul Loupe

Ana Bulacovschi

Claudia

Thwisha Shah, Hitarth Nandi

Kelvin Hu

O. Grana-Garriga, D. Paraschiv

Cen Shen

Pragnan Bachala

Marley Olson + Yi Yun Luo

Dylan Moredock-Ting

Elizabeth Clapp

Daniella Tero

Cameron Troyano

Skyguy Mok

AURA

Valeria Bardi Cohen

Geri Roa Kim Dillon Marlow

Ashkan Efard

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Boasting an impressive top-speed of Mach 22 and the radar signature of an aircraft 1/10th its size, the design philosophy can most succinctly be stated as “stay fast, stay hidden, stay alive”.

work on an accessible and personal scale. We are un-official, unpolished, non-bureaucratic, and off Higgins. The book’s title acknowledges that Higgins is where we emerged and where we were originally from. However, we must stay away from its jurisdiction. 25 feet from Higgins is where students are allowed to smoke. “25 FEET Off Higgins” is where students are allowed to express themselves freely while having proximity to their base. It is a discussion from beyond Higgins; to be brought back into Higgins.

Indeed, on the eve of Second Great Ignition, the largest nuclear war to engulf Uhlen, the first

and last aircraft in the sky was an SA-X-29 “Firewatch”. Only one specimen survived the war, but was later reverse engineered and serves a permanent VIP transport role, moving high level fleet personnel from remote bases to the FSU capital in a matter of minutes - not hours.

The SA -X-29 “Firewatch” is a low-observability hypersonic VTOL platform designed for nuclear Command and Control in the days prior to the Second Great Ignition.

In recent years, my artwork has analyzed how image curation, particularly in the context of family photos, claims personal histories while also blurring the line between reality and fiction.

How much of our history and/or memory has been curated at best or completely falsified at worst? Can this contextualization of person-hood be a violent act? Or rather, is it the gift of cathecting life by means of storytelling?

This painting has been a more narrow study within this context, focusing specifically on the eerie almost intangible quality of femininity, and how women before me have occupied that role.

I am trying to understand the ways in which motherhood, domesticity, and femininity have shaped my familial history; perhaps looking for answers to my own crises of identity, but more so trying to empathize with this form that is just as difficult to actualize as it is to define.

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Losing a big part of yourself, a friend, a parent, a sibling is very hard and yet makes you who you are.

There starts a battle between your consciousness and body. The body wants to forget this extensive trauma and delete everything about the person from your thoughts and dreams.

On the other hand, consciousness wants to relive the memories and remember the good times.

With this in mind, Lucid Dream tries to express my loved one while showing how unrecognizable she has become for my body.

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“25 F to showcase student work on an accessible and personal scale. We are un-official, unpolished, non-bureaucratic, and off Higgins. The book’s title acknowledges that Higgins is where we emerged and where we were originally from. However, we must stay away from its jurisdiction. 25 feet from Higgins is where students are allowed to smoke. “25 FEET Off Higgins” is where students are allowed to express themselves freely while having proximity to their base. It is a discussion from beyond Higgins; to be brought back into Higgins.

SYNONYM is a world I built where people look like me and are essentially clones of each other. I want to reflect this through my models who were hand casted to visually morph in and out of the idea of me.

I want people to question if the models really look like me or if it is just another similar Asian boy. I was inspired by the imagery of space and the interpretation of the future which really drove the design and feeling of this collection.

As a continuation from the original zine, I created my 12 garments and brought my SYNONYM concept to life.

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I didn’t define it but I didn’t defy it.

They were familiar, but vaguely, reminded me of my childhood in China; something I had closed a long time ago when I arrived in the Midwest.

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Growing up in a small suburban town, the population was predominantly white. I was the only Asian in my neighborhood, the only Asian in my high school, the only Asian in the shops I shopped at and places I ate at. Moving to Flushing, Queens, became a culture shock in my own

culture. I suddenly blended in and moved with a crowd of my own people. I still felt distant. The sceneries around me were unfamiliar but gave me deja vu.

“25 F to showcase student work on an accessible and personal scale. We are un-official, unpolished, non-bureaucratic, and off Higgins. The book’s title acknowledges that Higgins is where we emerged and where we were originally from. However, we must stay away from its jurisdiction. 25 feet from Higgins is where students are allowed to smoke. “25 FEET Off Higgins” is where students are allowed to express themselves freely while having proximity to their base. It is a discussion from beyond Higgins; to be brought back into Higgins. “

These shots capture this familiar unfamiliarity. A distant but warm stranger, a nostalgic experience.

“ I never forgot my identity as an Asian American but instead, I only put it to the side.

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In an attempt to build herself a home, Italian born and raised Lina Bo Bardi realized an architectural statement that stands firm as depiction of her cultural beliefs.

Lina emigrated from Italy in 1946 after Mussolini’s rule came to an end, in search of new potential, without the post-war European destructions.

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As a Brazilian immigrant, Lina refused to surrender to the European trends of abstract modernism, a la Bauhaus, she was taught by the Italian classics. Instead she became infatuated with South American culture, shifting her designs towards sentimental or vernacular folkloric.

By the time of her death, Lina Bo Bardi considered herself more Brazilian than she was ever Italian to begin with. Her designs became a perfect merge between modernism, regionalism and vernacular: a true DYNAMIC REGIONALISM.

collage discusses the socio-political context of Sao Paulo, Brazil that surrounded the actual construction of the “Casa de Vidro”.

Ancient Western civilizations build permanently. With stone, they leave behind spectacular ruins, yet their civilization failed to continue.

Ancient Eastern civilizations build temporarily. With timber, they celebrate decay and change. Most of their monuments vanished, but their culture and languages has continued till today.

Not one way of living is better, it is the difference of culture and identity that we should celebrate in the present world.

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“25 FEET Off Higgins” is a truly student organized zine publication that aims to showcase student work on an accessible and personal scale. We are un-official, unpolished, non-bureaucratic, and off Higgins.

The book’s title acknowledges that Higgins is where we emerged and where we were originally from. However, we must stay away from its jurisdiction. 25 feet from Higgins is where students are allowed to smoke. “25 FEET Off Higgins” is where students are allowed to express themselves freely while having proximity to their base. It is a discussion from beyond Higgins; to be brought back into Higgins.

Within the ruins of Rome, I found myself attracted to the moss growing in the ruins. Gone the civilization, came the new occupants of their ruins. Even the greatest monuments could not escape the fate of being encroached by nature; gone the white marble now being cladded with lichens and moss.

Lichen systems; moss colonies; weed blossoms. These that we often forget are trying to remind us something. Massiveness often blind us from discovering alternative values in the miniature. When I see these islands of moss on monuments, I know that what has lasted through time, is not the ones with power, but the beautiful “minorities”.

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i hate archaeologists, they ruin everything refusing to let me imagine what with their facts and fancy words what could have been?

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a city, by, for the giantswe fit only into the cracks between their spaces, the mice in the cracks between those and the ants in between everything else

maybe if we lived in the walls too, we’d consider our neighbors

on an accessible and personal scale. We are un-official, unpolished, non-bureaucratic, and off Higgins. The book’s title acknowledges that Higgins is where we emerged and where we were originally from. However, we must stay away from its jurisdiction. 25 feet from Higgins is where students are allowed to smoke. “25 FEET Off Higgins” is where students are allowed to express themselves freely while having proximity to their base. It is a discussion from beyond Higgins; to be brought back into Higgins.

My project is an exploration of environment and land: from the first people that inhabited it, to the architects that set ground-breaking trends, to our contemporary selves, the city of New York in particular has suffered great transformations.

The most brilliant minds the world has seen left a dent here through paintings, buildings, museums, writing, film, fashion and scientific innovation.

With such precedents, how do we respond to this city’s past and how will we influence its future? How will we build other cities?

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“I’ve been working on this painting for years but refused to finish it until recently.

It’s probably one that I’m most proud of because I hated it during the entire process. Which is why it took me so long. But once I finished it, I found a new appreciation for its composition and detail.

It is also my first commissioned piece, which made it special to me.

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“ “Q: What is “ निवास(Niwas)” and what is it different from “Residence” in English.

A: Literal translations often loses the essence. In this context of a new birthplace of the carbon economy, “ निवास(Niwas)” in Hindi means housing the possibilities of carbon-led sustainable development. It is not a stagnant residency, rather a constant breathing project that fuels the carbon age.

Q: Is this purely scientific driven? How do you balance experiential and pragmatic approaches.

A: To talk about carbon and its potential, we also dive deep into visualizing how carbon would look, feel and react. We are visual people and the aesthetic of carbon excites us to imagine spaces that hold associative value with people.

Q: Is this project a critique?

A: We believe that to replenish the planetary changes that have already occurred, the architectural discourse needs to extensively adopt an altered approach to the carbon form. Hence, this project is a critique on how we could achieve a new carbon economy.

Carbon निवास aims to domesticate the idea of carbon capture. It’s a climate literacyled installation that wraps people around an installation that sequesters atmospheric carbon by sensing human movement. The prototype addresses interaction, revelation, a form that combines organic and rectilinear architectonics.

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“25 FEET Off Higgins” is a truly student organized zine publication that aims to showcase student work on an accessible and personal scale. We are un-official, unpolished, non-bureaucratic, and off Higgins.

“Q: How are infinite modules are powerful? Infinite modules suggest that simple geometries can multiply & transform into any form. In this particular drawing, the functions of the modules are not specifies, providing us freedom for the imagination of what they can become. The demolition of the capsule towers in Tokyo just began, so I guess it is more sustainable for modules to flexibly adapt to the time and needs of their respective societies.

Q: What is your opinion on “supertalls”? I like tall structures because I think they give identity to a place by shaping the skyline, but the critique of “supertalls” today especially in NYC is more about their reflection of discrepancies between social classes. Supertall itself is not a negative typology.

An endless field of vertical structures gently stand on a deserted ground, each with unique expressions while composed of the same modules. The growth of modules generate infinite combinations and flexibility in form and function. Ambiguous in purpose, the towers expand beyond the horizon, as one’s imagination is limitless.

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“The most permanent effect of the pandemic has been a new culture of working from home. People are increasingly preferring to work from home, but at the same time experienced the loss of focus that comes with blending domestic and productive spaces.

Nested Commutes creates a solution for young professionals that aims to separate the home & office through a simulated commute. The traditional commute to an office offers a certain sensory experience that we lose when working from home. The familiar sights of walking to the train station, the smell of the air as you pass by coffee shops, and the passing interactions with other pedestrians define the transient experience that separates work from leisure.

A nested ramp reinterprets that experience as a serial progression of spaces between a cluster of 4 apartment units and their corresponding offices.

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rana-Garriga + D. Paraschiv “Nested Commutes”

“Habitation is a subject inextricably interwoven with the city. The 20th century reconsideration of housing had to do with “the normalizing of the residential environment” and began as a reaction against the congestion and squalor of the industrial city.

In New York City, early legislation focused on public health, safety, and fire protection and resulted in the institutionalizing of minimum standards which in turn promoted a larger set of social reforms aimed at improving the quality of urban life.

“25 FEET Off Higgins” is a truly student organized zine publication that aims to showcase student work on an accessible and personal scale. We are un-official, unpolished, nonbureaucratic, and off Higgins. The book’s title acknowledges that Higgins is where we emerged and where we were originally from. However, we must stay away from its

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This space contains a gallery, a Café, interactive terrestrial spaces, viewing areas, and two common area spaces, where people can come together, but also disperse into the globules.

In addition to globules, spheroids, and platforms for circulation, this exhibit contains hollowedout skylights for thermal regulation, taking into consideration transportation, evaporation, and density of air.

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“Biome is an amalgamation that resembles evocative moments of balance/ coexistence showcased between human beings and the natural world. Globules and spheroids resemble hollowed-out ellipsoids and spheres which are

oriented according to sun and water patterns. The Biome is conceived using a system in which each spheroid evolves to create multiple globules, taking bio-mimicry into consideration to imitate how an amoeba cell undergoes binary fission.

Pragnan Bachala “BIOME”

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The thing I missed most over quarantine was sitting and enjoying the ambiance in different coffee shops around the city. Incredibly unique I know (please clap). So I suppose it makes sense that the first thing I did once the world started spinning was spend as much time as I could with an overpriced cappuccino in hand. Though after a while, I felt a bit guilty about just sitting there looking at the people and scenery, so I picked up a sketchbook and put pen to page. I don’t claim to have much affinity for sketching, but here are a handful that came from my cafe-hopping weekends.

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Just a couple of collaged comics/sketches/future scrapbook material.

I suppose this is ‘progress work’ for my forthcoming zine about my 4th year of architecture school.

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5 25 25 25 25 25 25 Daniella Tero “No Face, No Case”

3 statuary sketches drawn around Italy where I focus on the figure because I can’t draw faces.

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Through these sketches, I wanted to capture the way light interacted with the various interventions on the site.

The height of the walls only allows one to see the tops of the trees and the mountains in the distance, emphasizing one’s transition from the world of the living to the world of the dead.

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Cameron Troyano “Brion Cemetery”

Using a “program” originally intended to combine images for lenticular printing, this image combines three shots of three distinct cityscapes in Hong Kong to present a fusion of distinct architectural styles that together to form the skyline in less well-known parts of the city.

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To AURA, dancing is a form of communication between the dancers and the viewers.

It is a translation of feelings and storytelling through body movements.

The formations articulate the efforts of synchronized circulation of individual bodies coming together to create a greater form.

“25 FEET Off Higgins” is a truly student organized zine publication that aims to showcase student work own an accessible and personal scale. We are un-official, unpolished, non-bureaucratic, and off Higgins. The book’s title acknowledges that Higgins is where we emerged and where we were originally from. However, we must stay away from its jurisdiction. 25 feet from Higgins is where students are allowed

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AURA is an inclusive dance club formed at Pratt with a concentration in Asian choreography.

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Growing up dancing classical ballet has shaped a big part of what I am today.

This personal project merges two of my passions, and translates the investigation of the body as a drawing machine.

Tracking movement, speed, time, and ballet foundation positions creates a rhythm in space and therefore becomes an opportunity to explore drawing techniques.

This project is / to be continued /

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eria Bardi Cohen “ The Boby as a Drawing Machine”

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I won’t give any clues. Use your own imagination. Here are the keywords >>

“Sequence + Dance + Invisible + Section”. Have fun!

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Concrete Convalescence is a piece highlighting the juxtaposition of two materials and their functions. The chair: fragile and broken, in desperate need of repair. The concrete; rarely used for the reparation

of delicate forms, cast around the broken shards. Together they are locked in perfect harmony; one material branching out, aching for an escape, while the other holds tight, solid and heavy.

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“25 F e student work on an accessible and personal scale. We are un-official, unpolished, non-bureaucratic, and off Higgins. The book’s title acknowledges that Higgins is where we emerged and where we were originally from. However, we must stay away from its jurisdiction. 25 feet from Higgins is where students are allowed to smoke. “25 FEET Off Higgins” is where students are allowed to express themselves freely while having proximity to their base. It is a discussion from beyond Higgins; to be brought back into Higgins. “

snow globe the size of your head

Metropolitan lifestyle transcends national borders, if not straight out eliminates them.

In a world where urban dwellers are in the majority, city culture has replaced folk culture in every regional civilization, morphing and merging into one world culture. Pre-industrial history created a diversity of civilizations, but bred homogeneity in each of them; post-industrial history promotes diversity within a civilization, but turns the world into a homogeneous one. The end result of post-industrialism is a global culture of cosmopolitanism with local characteristics.

Our urban arts and dances dominate the world as the common popular culture. Our modern Architecture has become the standardized product on this planet. Our identities may be different, but we come to share the same essence as citizens of this ecumenopolis. This zine crowd-sourced ideas across cultures and reflect back to one of the world’s cultural capital of NYC. It gives us readers a sense of universality, though what we see as “universality” is just the “universality” of urban dwellers.

“Traditional”, “backward” cultures are left forgotten, before being encroached on by our very own superior civilization and lost permanently. We have crossed the tipping point and come to embrace the age of super gentrification. In this ecumenopolis we built, we can walk out 25 feet off a building anytime we like, but we can never leave. We are locked in the universal city, or, university.

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Ernest Tsim, majoring in Political Science and minoring in American studies in Rutgers University, was invited by 25 Feet off Higgins to write an epilogue from a non-art, non-architecture, and world wide perspective.

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Off Higgins” is a truly student organized zine publication that aims to showcase student work on an accessible and personal scale. We are un-official, unpolished, nonbureaucratic, and off Higgins.

The book’s title acknowledges that Higgins is where we emerged and where we were originally from. However, we must stay away from its

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Our curatorial strategy is “connecting the dots”; and “text-art-fusion”. By which, we try to create a continuous dialogue through all these projects with a higher focus on text.

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Off Higgins” is a truly student organized zine publication that aims to showcase student work on an accessible and personal scale. We are un-official, unpolished, nonbureaucratic, and off Higgins. The book’s title acknowledges that Higgins is where we emerged and where we were originally from. However, we must stay away from its

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Apnapan is a proposal for a mixed-use residential project constructed using 3D concrete printing technology. The project questions the monotonous design of apartment units, where although, the occupants are different the layouts remain the same and aims to leverage the 3D printing technology to make custom units where the occupant decides what is essential to their home. Additionally, the project aims to capture and be sensitive to the essence of India featuring modified versions of the Indian

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Maxwell Medley

Jacqueline Lai

Maddie Mertz

Yuyao Fu

Krinshna Goyal

Yun Jou Lin

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3d Printed affordable housing in desert Hot springs, CA. This drawing seeks to replicate the photo images of a real model, challenging the boundary between what is fake and what is real.

3d Printed affordable housing in desert Hot springs, CA. This drawing seeks to replicate the photo images of a real model, challenging the boundary between what is fake and what is real.

These sketches are the remarkable memories of Italy for me.

“25 FEET Off Higgins” is a truly student organized zine publication that aims to showcase student work on an accessible and personal scale. We are un-official, unpolished, nonbureaucratic, and off Higgins.

The book’s title acknowledges that Higgins is where we emerged and where we were originally from. However, we must stay away from its

A ballpoint sketch of the vibrant Yellow Wagtail, a bird that nests in grasslands and salt-marshes.