Exhibits
Envelope : Elev8 Your Labels
(case outside library entrance)
DAAP has partnered once again with Italian packaging and label design company Eurostampa to create design solutions for major brands through The Envelope Project.
UC-DAAP students collaborate with students from the University of Gastronomic Sciences in Pollenzo, Italy and Eurostampa produces the final design outcomes. The current showcase celebrates the 8th installment of the project, showing off students’ packaging design creativity and capabilities. DAAP has partnered with Eurostampa, whose U.S. headquarters is located in Norwood, Ohio, across numerous projects and workshops over recent years, and this fruitful collaboration has produced stellar results while furthering our students’ development as young professional designers.
Below are some links to learn more about The Envelope Project and Eursotampa.
Labels Become Emotions – scroll down to see videos about the concepts that UC students designed
Works of The Spirit
(circulation desk case)
Works of The Spirit (2025) offers a broad perspective of relationships with religion from the lenses of DAAP students, Caity Tuttle, G Bhalerao, Issac Makanda, and Leah Kubitz. Curated by fellow DAAP Student Nico Kangur, Class of 2027, this exhibition showcases an intimate glimpse into the experiences of other students' relationships with religion in both written and artistic accounts. Religion throughout history has been an integral part of society, this fact remains unchanged. From large devotional buildings like a Cathedral in Italy to a small Byzantine necklace, personal relations within religion have been vast and complex throughout human history. By offering a contemporary lense, Works of the Spirit offers viewers an opportunity to look inward to their own relationship within modern religion and practices.
The Wooden Dolls by Alexander Girard
(entryway cases)
The Wooden Dolls by Alexander Girard are a large family of wooden figures representing human and animal characters. Girard designed them in 1952 for his own use as decorative objects for his home.
Furniture Miniatures Collection
(freestanding cases on first floor of library)
For over two decades, the Vitra Design Museum has been making miniature replicas of milestones in furniture design from its collection. The Furniture Miniatures Collection encapsulates the entire history of industrial furniture design – moving from Historicism and Art Nouveau to the Bauhaus and New Objectivity, from Radical Design and Postmodernism all the way up to the present day.