Graphic design alum Valeria Homayden featured on It’s Nice That
App State graphic design alum Valeria Homayden was recently featured on It’s Nice That for “Field Notes for Wonder,” a print project that turns close observations of the natural world into playful, tactile design.
The project, created while a student in Graphic Design Senior Studio course, pairs a series of Risograph animations exploring the patterns found in rocks, shells, leaves and moss with a pocket-sized field guide of prompts that invite readers to slow down and look more closely at the landscapes around them. Embracing the quirks of the stencil-based printer, Homayden lets bright, slightly imperfect colors abstract each image so the shapes and patterns register before the objects themselves. Her takeaway is a simple one: the most intricate beauty is already close at hand, waiting for us to look at it in new ways.
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