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A RISING TIDE LIFTS ALL BOATS
A Rising Tide works to cultivate leadership and increase visibility of Asian and Pacific Islanders working in design for the built environment. After research, I created these Instagram graphics to highlight various people, histories, and projects.
A Rising Tide 2023-2024
WOOD, RE-IMAGINED
Norwegian Wood is a bildungsroman that wrestles with first love, identity, and promises. My re-design of the cover emphasizes these aspects, more than a face or the idea of “woods.” The hearts represent the three main characters, connected by a fragile, tenuous thread.
ART S131 | Jessica Svendsen Summer 2022
NORWEGIAN
Lunar Ball Advertisement Instagram Post 2022
EVENT GRAPHICS
As Communications Chair for Yale’s Chinese American Students Association (CASA), I was responsible for creating graphics for newsletters, Facebook banners, and Instagram, sent to over 1,000 club members. These graphics were lighthearted for community engagement.
Yale CASA 2021-2022
Mid-Autumn Festival Event
Lunar Ball Menu
Instagram Post 2022
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HEMISPHERE HEIGHTS
This board game’s concept started from a piece of architecture — the Mousgoum huts from Cameroon, Africa. The Mousgoum hut construction process is labor intensive and collaborative. The assembly of the game board and the traversing of pieces are all a tribute to the huts’ ethos. The board game stacks into a neat hexagon, kept together with four long pegs.
Upon opening, there are four pentagonal boxes and a diamond compartment in the center. Each box has ten plaster tokens and a corresponding figurine. The central diamond compartment has pegs for game play. After unsheathing the boxes and the hexagonal boards from the pegs, the hexagonal boards can be organized into a larger circle. This larger circle is an echo to the orientation of the Mousgoum houses in their greater site plan.
ARCH 251 | Michael Surry Schlabs
Spring 2023
sketches of the board assembly and a study model of the upper compartments
the game pieces were plaster cast with a dowel in the center
diagram explaining board assembly and pieces
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board unboxing and gameplay
full board spread in the midst of gameplay
DAILY OBJECTS
These ceramic sets and rings were created over the course of a year. In the leather hard stage, incisions are made to add decorative elements inspired by natural motifs. The ceramic cups were glazed, then wiped so the glaze only stayed in the recessed incisions. At a handheld scale, there are more minute considerations such as beveling edges and careful sanding for a smoother experience.
Independent Project 2020-2021
The ceramic cups were made over the course of a year, first starting as plastic speckled buff clay. After the leather hard stage, designs based on natural motifs were carved on.
The rings are made from a type of silver clay that is actually many silver particles bound together with a clay binder. Once baked in a kiln, the moisture evaporates, leaving behind the silver.
ARTISTIC JOURNAL
Watercolor has always been my favorite medium for artistic expression. From moving to college to living in Korea for year, it is a medium that has allowed me to capture life in various stages.
Independent Project 2020-2024
The Way Home
6” x 8”, watercolor and pencil on paper 2024
Watercolor Studies each 2”x3”, watercolor and ink on paper 2020-2021
