Muslin Wedding

Name: Erin Aubrey
Class: DS 699, Independent Study, Mary Hark
Major: Apparel Design

This paper wedding dress is made entirely out of recycled material. I handmade the paper from muslin scraps collected in UW-Madison’s Apparel Design studios. I wanted to use a material that is typically discarded and disregarded to create something beautiful.   

*Recipient of Best Overall in Show

Architecture in Black and White

Name: Daisy Lopez
Class: Apparel Studio 1
Major: Apparel Design

Zaha Hadid's Beethoven Concert Hall was used as inspiration to create this geometric neoprene and chiffon gown.   

*Recipient of the Best in Textile and Fashion Design

Light Fixture Project - Dragon Lamp

Name: Sarah Treutel
Class: DS 220- Design Fundamentals II
Major: Interior Architecture

The assignment was to design a light fixture using recyclable materials.  This dragon head was constructed using chicken wire as the skeleton, on to which clear, plastic cutlery was glued to mimic scales.  The transparency of the scales causes the dragon head to glow when illuminated, making this piece a beautiful as well as function lamp.     

*Recipient of the Best in Foundations Class

ZONK

Name: Halie Weigel
Class: DS 622
Major: Interior Architecture

For the design of this office space it was critical to integrate branding in a way that was unique to the client. This meant incorporating technology and an experiential atmosphere that reflects the mission of an up and coming gaming company. The employees of Zonk are diverse in both skill and their professional background so it was essential to create a space that includes open and closed spaces as well as playful and professional spaces.     

*Recipient of the Best in Interior Design Award

Senior Capstone Project, Rethinking our Food Systems: Barge Delivery in Milwaukee

Name: Julia Schilling
Class: landarc551, Senior Project in Landscape Architecture, Eric Schuchardt & Shawn Kelly
Major: Landscape Architecture


This project investigates the design of a barge delivery food hub located at the Port of Milwaukee. Situated on Lake Michigan at the northernmost port of the Mississippi river system, intersecting three major rivers, with two on-site rail lines and within a half mile of two major highways, the derelict Solvay Coke and Gas site is the ideal testing ground for exploring the potential of a multi-modal food distribution network. Food system transparency, food accessibility, public waterfront access, and brownfield remediation are integral components of this proposal. The design strategies and research for this site in the City of Milwaukee will be used to communicate the greater regional and community impacts of creating a decentralized food distribution system in alliance with the Center for Integrated Agricultural Systems and an interdisciplinary team of stakeholders invested in rethinking the future of our food systems.   

*Recipient of the Best in Landscape Architecture

Prairie Cloak

Name: Hannah O'Hare Bennett
Class: DS 501 Sustainable Forms
Major: Textile Design


This piece addressed issues of sustainability in art and design by using mulberry fiber harvested from a local restored prairie, and transforming it into a strong, flexible paper. Mulberry is an invasive species in Wisconsin. It would have been weeded out of the prairie to make room for native plants, so using it for paper was an excellent way to use something that would have been disposed otherwise. / It was important for the piece to refer to the land that it came from, and also to my personal history as a farmer and person interested in environmental issues. This piece can also be used in performance.   

*Recipient of the Honorable Mention

Menage à trois

Name: Sarah Nasgowitz
Class:  DS 699: Independent Study, Holly Easland
Major: Textile Design

The juxtaposition of exposure and privacy that happens when pulling curtains over an open window is the inspiration for this piece.  I have created an exposing bodysuit to be worn underneath the protective overcoat.  The organza is hand felted to look like a lace.  This is then felted to a satin and is enhanced by an embroidery stitch.  There are ribbon structure lines to resemble the panes of a window.  The top of the over piece is all hand sewn flowers which is attached to a pleather vest with a long sheer skirt acting as a curtain over the exposed legs.  

*Recipient of Honorable Mention

Mindscape, Zip Tie Collar

Name: Sarah Nasgowitz
Class: DS 319: Cloth to Clothing, Carolyn Kallenborn
Major: Textile Design


Mindscape - a scene or place uniquely designed by one’s imagination. This collar was conceptualized while imagining a place where nothing is quite as it seems. Mountains made of giant crystal, waterfalls that fall backwards, and tiger fur looking so soft, yet when coming upon it you realize it is rough as dry prickly grass. I took this idea of creating something looking soft and fur like yet really being rough and heavy and decided to create a surface entirely made of zip ties. This surface then turned into a collar in which one can wear and give the effect of wearing or having fur.   

*Recipient of Honorable Mention

Final Project of Off-Loom Construction Module

Name: Jingjing Li
Class: DS501, Introduction to Textile Design
Major: Apparel Design

The beauty of design is the creation of something new with value from things that people already have in the world or thins that are not needed anymore. As a designer, I am very interested in recycling waste materials and giving them a new value. In this design, I used old magazines, which presents the variety of beauty in the world, and made them into colorful fabric. The variety of colors represents for the beauty of diversity. Moreover, the color gradient shows how the differences are actually connected tightly.


*Recipient of Honorable Mention