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04.11.2010
FOUND TRUTHS
Thanks, Harvard
Ultimately our work evolves around nature as visual pleasure and play; we are like cats tossing mice into the air.
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04.29.2010
HELLO POSTER SHOW / GOODBYE EDITION
UW SOA Parnassus Cafe
Showing now.
hello poster
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07.19.2010
PURCHASE EAT / GATHER
A Feast of Tradition
By Alanna Macgowan
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08.18.2010
BOOK OF THE WEEK
Check out Eat / Gather as the Blurb Book of the Week!

Thanks, Blurb.
THE DYE LAB
SEATTLE / NEW YORK
about
The Dye Lab is an independent graphic design studio based in Seattle and New York. We work across a wide variety of media, including print, web, motion, printmaking + textiles.

We are available for design / consultation individually and as a collaborative team. If you'd like to learn more about us and our work, please get in touch.
Tonya Douraghy
td@thedyelab.com
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EDUCATION
MFA / Designer As Author, School of Visual Arts

BS / Visual Communications + Textile Design / UC Davis

WORK
Art Director / Print Magazine

EXHIBITIONS
Unleashed / Visual Arts Gallery / New York

The Hello Poster Show / Seattle

Happy / SVA Gallery / New York

CompostModern 09 / San Francisco

AWARDS + PUBLICATIONS
Art Director's Club 88 / Bronze Cube, Motion design

New Ornamental Type, Typeface design
TIME / PLACE

TIME / PLACE

TIME / PLACE is a book series as well as a digital archive designed to document subjective accounts of what war is like from the point of view of ordinary citizens.

TIME / PLACE explores the political history of modern border conflicts through personal narratives.

Each book in the series focuses on one conflict. The first book of the series is TIME / PLACE: 1980-1988 Iran AND focuses on the Iran-Iraq War. The conflict is presented in three layers of depth: Facts, which builds a framework through timelines, maps, and data; Voices, personal stories from the war, annotated with relevant history, dates, and translations; and Landscapes, which uses photographs to document what the conflict really looks like on the ground.

Conceptualized, researched, designed, printed + bound by Tonya Douraghy for the graduate thesis at MFA Design, School of Visual Arts.




Fabrica

Fabrica / Omar Vulpinari

Poster set for a lecture by Omar Vulpinari, the Creative Director of Visual Communications for Fabrica. Designed for the School of Visual Arts MFA Design department.

First Day

First Day

Winner of the Art Director's Club 88th Annual Awards Bronze Cube for Television & Cinema Design: Music Video.

Typographic music video for the song "First Day" by the Futureheads, using only black and white type. The video was designed in After Effects using original hand-drawn typefaces Darn and Jerky.

[Instructor: Gail Anderson]




Unleashed

Unleashed: MFA Designer As Author

Poster set designed for the 2010 Thesis Forum at the School of Visual Arts MFA Designer As Author program. Using the existing theme and title of "Unleashed," we illustrated synonyms of the word with images from pop culture.

[Designed in collaboration with Matthew Stipano]

Unlucky Crushes

The Unlucky Crushes of a Shy Girl

A personal infographic detailing all the crushes I've had which I never acted upon. Circles indicate the duration of each crush and color intensity relates to intensity of feeling, while solid and dashed lines indicate their romantic relationships with others.

[Instructor: Scott Stowell]

NYCB

New York City Ballet

A fundraising poster designed for New York City Ballet's Dancer's Choice 09 event, featuring the photography of NYCB dancers. The pattern was created from the DC 09 logo. The poster was sold at the DC 09 fundraising event, and also in the NYCB Gift Shop.

Design Ethics

Design Ethics

Poster advertising an AIGA NY discussion exploring the intersections between design and ethics. The vernacular of a Venn diagram is used to suggest that designers can find common ethical standards.

[Instructor: Milton Glaser]

Lady Chatterley

Lady Chatterley's Lover

Book cover designed for D.H. Lawrence's 1928 novel. The cover is constructed out of printed and hand-sewn cotton, overlayed with type printed on sheer silk organza.

[Instructor: Stephen Doyle]

Canstruct

Jim Polk / Canstruct

Poster set designed to publicize a visiting lecture by Jim Polk of Canstruct at the School of Visual Arts MFA Designer As Author program.

Tailored Trash

Tailored Trash

Tailored Trash is a line of lovingly handmade clothing and accessories that use everyday objects and found materials to create affordable yet irresistible pieces.

Products include a corseted dress made of dyed paper napkins + silk, a pleated skirt made of theater tickets + silk, a necklace made of discarded buttons, and hair accessories made from used dryer sheets.

[Instructor: Kevin O'Callaghan]

Candy Japan

Candy Japan

A guide book documenting Japanese candy packaging. The book takes its small format from traditional Japanese candy packages, with each chapter is dedicated to a specific subcategory of candy. The book jacket is made of clear plastic and semi-opaque vellum with transparent type which mimics candy packaging. Kanji characters are used on the cover and throughout the bookÕs pages.

Collaboration
hello@thedyelab.com

Jenny + Drew

Jenny + Drew

Silkscreen wedding invitation set.

For Hire

For Hire

Custom stamps designed for each member of The Dye Lab.

Hello

HELLO: Sweet Greetings

Silkscreened poster made of 12 perforated seasonal postcards designed to be detached and mailed as a friendly greeting to someone in your life, one for each month.

The poster was designed for the Seattle-based exhibition The HELLO Poster Show. The theme of the exhibition called for open interpretations of the greeting 'hello.' The design encourages open communication and interaction with the poster, supporting the dynamic nature of this simple greeting.

art is war

artiswar.org

Website for recent design graduates to share work and experiences with their peers. The site is divided into three sections which are layered and scroll independently of one another. The site contains additional pages for archiving old posts, as well as a space for users to sign up for an account and post original content.

[Site coding by Alan Oliver]

CheeseCream

CheeseCream

Identity for San Francisco accessories design duo Cheese Cream, with graphic elements inspired by the company's hand-made aesthetic. Includes business cards, letterhead, envelopes, and merchandise tags.

pttv

Paper Tiger Television

Splash page for NY-based public access television station Paper Tiger Television.


arc

ARC Horticulture

Website redesign, including splash page, for American River College Department of Horticulture.


Alanna MacGowan
am@thedyelab.com
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EDUCATION
MFA / Design / University of Washington

BS / Visual Communications and Textile Design / UC Davis

EXHIBITIONS
2010 UW MFA Thesis Exhibition / Henry Art gallery /Seattle

UW Design Show 2010 / Jacob Lawrence Gallery / Seattle

The Hello Poster Show / Seattle

ATypI 2009 / New Mexico

TypeCon 2009 / Atlanta
eat / gather

Eat / Gather

This thesis explores new systems of gathering and archiving the complexities of cultural traditions and personal relationships. Specifically, the role of food as an amplifier and catalyst for these relationships was investigated. Eat/Gather illustrates this parallel in a book series chronicling the making of seasonal Japanese American foods. In each volume, personal stories told by the Nisei (2nd generation Japanese Americans) are woven together to narrate the shared process of making one specific traditional food.

To purchase a copy of the Eat/Gather thesis book, visit: http://www.blurb.com/bookstore/detail/1407161
This book details the entire thesis project and is separate from the three Eat/Gather volumes.

For more, visit: eat-gather.com

Inquiries at: hello[at]eat-gather.com



goodbye

GOODBYE

Promotional poster for The Hello Poster Show / Goodbye Edition. 19x26" / silkscreen on kraft stock
Designed in collaboration with Benjamin K Shown.

For more, visit: hellopostershow.com

Positive Post

Positive Post

Write On! is a roving exhibition offering the public a chance to spread some positivity by mailing a hand-silkscreened postcard, free of charge, to a friend or foe.

In collaboration with Marisa Mickelson, Kimberly Shedrick and Benjamin K. Shown For more, visit: positivepost.org

Write us at: dearfriend[at]positivepost[dot]org

Instructor / Kristine Matthews

The HELLO Poster Show

The Hello Poster Show

In November 2009, Benjamin k Shown and Alanna MacGowan started The HELLO Poster Show, a fundraising exhibition featuring over 30, 19x26" silkscreened prints inspired by the greeting 'hello.'

The call for entries for Hello poster designs is open to all. Participants have included UW students, faculty, alumni and professional designers worldwide.

All posters from the exhibition are available for purchase with proceeds benefitting local Seattle charities. To date, posters have sold to a worldwide audience raising over $3500.

In April 2010, the juried Goodbye Edition of the show opened in Seattle to an enthusiastic crowd of Hello Poster Show enthusiasts and newcomers.

Current Hello beneficiary /
826 Seattle.

Past Hello beneficiaries /
U-District Food Bank
ROOTS Youth Shelter
Circle of Friends for Mental Health

For more, visit: hellopostershow.com



A Curious Yonsei

A Curious Yonsei

A series of info graphics exploring over five generations of Japanese American immigration and assimilation.

Instructor / Karen Cheng

Superfund Typeface

SUPERFUND TYPEFACE

Original typeface design inspired by toxic US Superfund sites. This unicase face includes numerals, symbols/punctuation, and 15 alternates.

Instructor / Karen Cheng

Positive Post

Tally Ho

An original Alternate Reality Game created to challenge the way humans interact in their everyday environments. Tally Ho challenges people to seek out existing groups of four objects or shapes within the environment and tally that group with a fifth line.

In collaboration with Benjamin K Shown.

For more, visit: thisistallyho.com

Advisor / Dominic Muren

Manifesto

A 300 Word Design Manifesto

A 300 word personal design manifesto. 300 descriptive characteristics were printed on individual pieces of kraft stock and fabric, then sewn together end-to-end. The piece can be neatly wound up or unraveled to reveal the ordered chaos that lies within.

Instructor / Kristine Matthews

Seattle International Film Festival

Seattle International Film Festival

Marketing materials for the 35th Annual Seattle International Film Festival. The program included: 2-sided folding poster/mailer, program booklet, 20 second promo bumber, tickets/press passes, environmental components, and a takeaway item.

The theme of the program was Find Your Moment, a sentiment visualized with a simple icon made of three dashed lines used to emphasize the place and time when your SIFF moment was realized.

Instructor / Annabelle Gould

Design + Activism

Design + Activism

Promotional brochure and order form for the Seattle-based lecture series, Design + Activism. Event information and featured speakers were among featured spreads.

Instructor / Karen Cheng

Plush

Plush

Created identity package for new event coordination business, Plush. Originated color scheme, logo, and layouts to create the business card, letterhead, envelope and website.