Parsons School of Design
BFA Communication Design
Thesis 2016

Parsons School of Design
BFA Communication Design
Thesis 2016

Posta
Marius Franc

Two years ago I set out to produce a non-profit art magazine. Its goal was to give exposure to young and unrepresented artists that were hungry to share their work with the world. I was lucky enough to get funding through the school’s student senate and so the magazine’s prototype went into production. Physically the magazine stands out, it’s a poster size unbound publication that can be taken apart to enjoy every single spread individually or can be read as a coherent whole. The concept is to select the best young artists across all kinds of media and publish their work quarterly at the beginning of every season. As a result the magazine is designed so that every individual sheet is about one of the artists. Each individual leaflet has in its center spread a poster the width of the magazine of one of the work of the artist with an interview on its back. The readers are invited to hang or frame the poster as a piece of art if he wishes, that way the magazine is to an extent a nomadic art gallery that becomes a collective exhibition of young talents wherever 
it is received.

For my thesis project, having already done a lot of work on the magazine itself, I set out to create an introductory video to present the project. In it I interview one of the artists about her work and I give an exclusive view of the inside of the printing factory that produced the magazine. I also give some insights on what we hope to achieve with the publication and what are the main goals moving forward. Overall the video gives an overview of the project and introduces the concept to any potential contributors, investors, or readers.

Selwa Abd

Ashley Seung Hyun Ahn

Natasha Alia

Aviva Atri

Marissa Baca

Miles Barretto

Lili Marie Bravi

Olivia Brodbar

Carla Campos-Rodriguez

Jiaying Cao

Robert Capaldo

Janet Chan

Purwa Chauhan

Patrick Chen

Sarada Chen

Linette Cheong

Eunsil Choi

Sung Ji Choi

Brittany Cutrone

Arianna De Gasperis

Paola Delucca

Rubina Melati Diran

Ann Dwyer

Dilan Emre

Douglas Escalante

Joshua Estrella

Joe Louis Evans

Marius Franc

Ceilidh Fraser

Gaby Garuz

Jiayi Ge

Stella Giavos

Meher Goel

Em Grey

Alyssa Gruber

Yu Bean Han

Cherish Hsiaohui Ho

Jasmine Hong

Jay Hsiao

Irene Hwang

Louise Pei Foong Hyde

Sanghyun Ji

Sharon (Eun Rae) Kim

Lisa Kim

Sharon Kim

David Klein

Teresa Koh

Da Min Lee

Lauren Elizabeth Lee

Stephanie Sumin Lee

Dana Li

Haowei Lin

Lucas Long

Lisa Looye

Zongliang Lou

Ankita Menon

Lauren Miller

Katie Minchak

Isabela Montalvo

Nathalie Moreno

Samah Mudasar

Shirin Muradova

Supisara Ngaovithunvong

Gabriela Nisenbaum

Inyegumena Nosegbe

Zoe Oleshansky

Yeon Soo Park

Anna Peditto

Pamela Pombo

Lisa Sakai Quinley

Josephine Rahadi

Sarah Rose Reichert

Ana Julia Rodriguez

Rick Rodriguez

Fernanda Romero

Hannah Rosen-Hamilton

Ivana Roumiantzeff-Pachkevitch

Taylor Russo

Ariella Saragossi

Nengneng Shen

Kripa Sial

Maurann Stein

Kurt Stives

Minji Sung

Vanshika Swaika

Nicholas Tanzman

Ana Cecilia Thompson Motta

Joel Tschong

Yue Wang

Laurie Waxman

Kevin Wen

Yingmeng Xu

Anna Yamoto

Jiawei Yan

Vivian Yang

Xiao Q. Yang

McLayne Ycmat

Evelyn Zhang

Xuan Zhang