Let me introduce my capstone takeaways! Designed products meant to go with the crowd and participants on their next adventures. There was a wide variety of stickers for individuals to take as well as a small initial collection of tote bags that went super quick. Below are the rare but quirky photos I was able to collect from the event.
My main piece from this exhibitor was my large scale book, What Happened in 2013? This book covered the ins and outs of the individual digital footprint and how your entire life has grown to be accessible online. It serves as an educational piece as well as a space to share my own thoughts regarding this new form of documentation and self preservation in the modern world.
To Go Along With That…
Not featured from the capstone exhibition is Meet Riley. An immersive wall display that takes you through the digital footprint of my close friend, Riley. Meet Riley was used as a way to showcase the possibilities of the digital footprint you have created over your life.
What Happened in 2013?
2026
14 by 16in
What use to be your childhood scrapbook has grown into your mom’s Facebook feed. 2013 is my capstone project that covers the growing impact and impression of the users digital footprint in this day and age and how the excessiveness of online posting has grown to affect us. What use to be new and innovative has become almighty and dense with information that leads individuals all over the place. Your legacy lives online in the modern era. The legacy of your digital footprint is out there for anyone to see. This project is inspired and named on the year my entire family entered social media and digital documentation.
The overarching theme of this capstone exhibition was “TRACEWORK”. The 2026 Graphic Design Senior capstone exhibition, TRACEWORK, explores the theme of legacy: the cultural, social, environmental, and personal imprints that shape our present and inform our future. These legacies can be inherited, celebrated, or contested, visible or invisible. They live in traditions, stories, artifacts, and systems, and in the ways we choose to remember, challenge, or transform them.
(Tracework abstract written by Rebecca Jampol and Jennifer Bernstein)