Art and Design AUS Student Work 2016

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A catalog to showcase the works of students American University of Sharjah

CAAD STUDENTS' PROJECTS College of Arts, Architecture & Design

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In the College of Architecture, Art and Design (CAAD), we offer five undergraduate programsarchitecture, interior design, visual communication, multimedia design and design management. The curriculum in all programs is based on the North American model, which integrates liberal studies with professional education. All our undergraduate students begin their first-year studies in the college's highly effective foundations program. In the upper years, design studios form the core of our undergraduate programs.

This is a portfolio book that includes the works of the students exclusively in visual communication, multimedia design, and design management after the foundations program. The works are also only of students in the upper yearssecond, third and fourth.

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A glimpse of the works in Art & Design.

Majors:

Minors

Categories:

Visual Communication Multimedia Design Design Management

Film Illustration Product Design Photography Print Making

Photography Film Web Design Branding Modeling & Sculpture Illustration Poster Design

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Sculpture

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Fatima AlGhafoori Visual Communication Self Promotion

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Description

For this project I chose to work with printmaking by doing alphabet stamps.

Since stamps are old style I connected them to the old wooden pencil case and that’s what inspired my packaging material—wood.

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Diala Al Alami Joudy Bourghli

Visual Communication

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Description

Whether we know it or not we might be affecting other people by the decisions we make. This project is an interactive piece for people to see how their decision affect the other person on the other side.

Following the written instructions, the players on each side have to create the word by choosing the correct combination of letters so that the words on both sides are spelled correctly.

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Meltem Z. Nora Al Malik Mayada AlAmin

Visual Communication Vane

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Description

Tackle both functional and aesthetic qualities. That statement was the birth of Vane. An interactive design that underwent many reformations and alterations, Vane’s main aim is to be a wind recorder.

It records the direction and the speed of the wind, an unseen element, and grants it a visual representation—light. Using ultra bright LEDs, Vane responds to the wind by making its lights flicker— the faster the wind, the wilder the flickering. Not to mention, the direction the light chooses to flicker mimics that of the wind. And so, Vane is a cluster of trees that do not physically sway with the wind, but sway using physics.

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Reed Ghunaim

Visual Communication

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Description

An interactive book designed to portray the idea of building one's home out of puzzle pieces. Each piece has a number of notches so that they can be attached to each other in different ways; thus creating the uniqueness of each person building their home.

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Photography

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Reed Ghunaim

Visual Communication

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Description

This photograph shows where I consider home. It expresses how I am torn between two places in my current life. The shadow misplacement symbolizes that on one side, there are people in my life who are there yet not there.

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Muskaan Chandwani

Design Management Nature & Urban Life Photography

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Joya El Ghaoi

Visual Communication Al Qassimi Hospital

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Description

The old Al Qassemi hospital located in Sharjah is now split into two parts: One that is abandoned and another that is still operational. The functional part of the hospital is now used for the treatment of cancer and addiction. The abandoned side was specialized in everything. The government funded the hospital and it was free of charge. A British company initially ran it. Later on, the ministry of health took over. It used to be one of the best hospitals in Sharjah, U.A.E. The project is named the hospital of the dead because there is a myth that says “Whoever goes in never comes out�. No information was available on the Internet or secondary research. The information provided above is based on primary research.

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Videography

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Hamda Al Qassimi

Multimedia Design Vertical

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Description

Vertical takes a contemporary approach to Sylvia Plath’s poem titled “I Am Vertical”. It challenges stereotypical ideas of depression and emotional vulnerability. Her depression is represented through beautiful imagery as she personifies herself to the natural world. However, she feels the acceptance of eventual death and agony of staying alive. She is pulled by dreams of immortality and the everlasting wish to be at peace with herself.

STUDENT WORK | Project_01 Student: Aya Al Gergawy 27 Aya Al Gergawy

Multimedia Design

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STUDENT WORK | Capstone Project 29

Student: Fatima Al Shamsi Multimedia Design Fatima Al Shamsi Capstone Project

STUDENT WORK | Capstone Project Student: Fatima Al Shamsi

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Web Design

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Munirah Al Shami Multimedia Design Design|Your Life YOUR LIFE | Design of the n Haia HajSTUDENT Murad WORK DESIGN Student: Munirah Al Shami, Haia Haj Murad

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Description

Design of the new website for Dept. of Art and

Design of the new website for Dept. of Art and Design.

Design

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Munirah Al Shami Multimedia Design Design|Your Life YOUR LIFE | Design of the n Haia HajSTUDENT Murad WORK DESIGN Student: Munirah Al Shami, Haia Haj Murad

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Description

Design of the new website for Dept. of Art and

Design of the new website for Dept. of Art and Design.

Design

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Samar Gouda

Visual Communication The Collection

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Branding

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Amal Mohammed

Design Management Personal Branding

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Description

Neat, smart and professional branding designed based on my personality, beginning from the logo, to colour palette and patterns. Designed for VIS361 Design Profession, this personal branding truly brings out the designer in me.Â

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Joudy Bourghli

Visual Communication Dubai Jazz Festival Branding

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Description

Dubai Jazz Festival occurs every year in the UAE. It acts as a platform for Jazz artists and other music genres’ artists to become the most entertaining, energetic, timeless and exciting event in the region.

It targets people from all nationalities, backgrounds, interests and age groups.

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Joya El Ghaoi

Visual Communication Re-pack Bonjus

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Description

This idea is a solution that satisfies all ages. It is appealing for both adults and children. Additionally, it is designed to look like the outside or inside of the fruit.

The packaging is mostly the color of the fruit it contains and features of the fruit to attract the consumer to this product.

All six flavours of this design lock up and each three of one fruit continue. All six packages are continuous from one side to the other. Furthermore, the package includes bilingual information (English and Arabic). As people who read French in Arabic understand the English but not vice versa.Dimensions: 21 cm x 12 cm Fruit Samples: Orange Strawberry Pineapple Grapes Kiwi Watermelon

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Animation

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Issam Rayess

Multimedia Design Father

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Description

A traumatizing experience that has occured in Syria. There was a tragic loss of a dear family member. A sudden shock occured in the most chaotic and disastrous time period where the country was suffering and no one could get a hold of their family. I made a combination of animation, archival footage and interview footage to make the story more emotional and interesting.

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Muhammed Awwad

Multimedia Design The Brave Knight

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Description

A short character animation done for the 3D Animation class. The animation tells the story of a brave warrior who chose to face a whole army alone.

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Issam Rayess Rahaf Al-Asttal Talal Barakat Rawan Obaid

Multimedia Design Animate Dubai Festival

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Description

Animate Dubai gave us an opportunity to work in group in order to create an introductory promo for the festival.

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Illustration Drawing

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Mayada Al Amin

Visual Communication Portrait Painting

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Description

Oil on canvas, 70cm x 50cm, 2015. This painting was constructed using oil paint and two painting tools— hogs brushes and pallet knives. Everything in the painting has a rough, bulgy texture as a result of picking up paint using a pallet knife and applying it directly onto the canvas. The only parts that were manufactured using hogs brushes (thus have no texture) are the hair and the eye.

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Waed Ibrahim

Multimedia Design Illustration

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Dina Tawil

Multimedia Design Illustrations

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Poster Design

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Dounia Lahlou

Visual Communication Morocco Poster

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Dounia Lahlou

Visual Communication Transition

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Description

The intention behind this poster is to show transition and integrate typography within an image in a harmonious manner. The mediums used were ink, water, tissue paper, and photography.

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Dounia Lahlou

Visual Communication Royal Opera House Muscat

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Description

The purpose of this project was to design communication pieces that include a bilingual program as well as a bilingual poster.

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If you are looking for programs that challenge and stimulate your creative faculties in a vibrant and dynamic environment, then CAAD is just the place for you.

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