A closing reception for the exhibition “Impetus” will be 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. Sept. 14 in the second floor link at Nebraska Innovation Campus. In addition, guided tours of Nebraska Innovation Studio will be available at 5 and 6 p.m.
“Impetus” is an exhibition of visual communications about water, food and fuel created by students in the advanced graphic design and typography classes offered by the University of Nebraska–Lincoln’s School of Art, Art History and Design. The exhibition ran concurrently with the Water for Food Institute’s Global Conference in April at Nebraska Innovation Campus and stayed on display through the summer.
The projects, exercises, assignments, and activities established conditions to raise questions, thoroughly examine and then visualize intersections of food, fuel or water and their relationship to a changing climate.
“The narratives created are designs that reflect ideas about the relationship people have to water, food and fuel from the past, present and future,” said Stacy Asher, assistant professor of graphic design.
Advanced Graphic design students designed postage stamp systems, promotional posters, campaigns, videos, and interactive installations. Typography students published a book of Grimm’s Fairy Tales, adapted to visualize these familiar narratives in contemporary times. The work primarily speaks about a future with a greater population, fewer natural resources and the impact we have on our environment.
Nebraska Innovation Studio is the creative and collaborative hub of Nebraska Innovation Campus, where makers and builders team up to conceptualize, prototype and iterate projects that solve problems, influence change and comment on our society.
The closing reception is free and open to the public.
