DÉJÀ VU

About

A2W is an educational event where students gain experience by coordinating and producing an annual fashion show. Young designers are challenged to imagine, create, and inspire by expressing their point of view through wearable art. A2W attracts approximately 1,000 attendees in addition to encouraging participation by engaging the student body, the Raleigh community, and the broader design industry.

VISION

A2W’s vision is to challenge our audience and designers to question the boundaries and conventional definitions of “fashion." We seek to explore new fashion ground and create new design pathways by encouraging our designers to blend their technical skill with innovative technology.

SKILLS

DESIGN

INTERPERSONAL + CHARACTER

  • Entrepreneurship

  • Leadership

  • Project Management

  • Public Speaking

“FASHION” AS DEFINED BY A2W

A product or sculptural piece that interacts with the body and serves as either a cultural artifact, an artistic expression, a reflector of society, outward illustration of a person’s identity (including but not limited to social class, religion, and ethnicity), starter of revolutions, economic building block, basic human need, or body covering.


 
 

BEYOND CURIE

VISION

— Beyond Curie is a design project that highlights badass women in science, technology, engineering + mathematics.

Inspired by and created in partnership with Amanda Phingbodhipakkiya my team at Laber Labs published an augmented reality app bringing the poster series to life for its exhibition at The North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences. By using the Beyond Curie augmented reality app, museum visitors could see beautiful 3-D animations hidden inside some of the portraits.

Our augmented reality animations can be seen using a free mobile app called "Beyond Curie" available on Google Play and the App Store.

To enrich our partnership beyond our augmented reality app, we created an additional series of posters celebrating women in STEM from North Carolina State University. We researched, designed, and iterated upon visual posters embodying the style of Phingbodhipakkiya’s work.

Calendar Girl

About

Through a series of compositions this booklet explores relationships between seemingly unrelated elements. It is centered around the female figure and depicts images rendered in several characteristic styles. The text accompanying the women is comprised of fragments taken from the Birds of the Eastern Forest describing them as if an untamed creature. The compositions grow increasingly dark as the booklet progresses into the late winter months.

Composed solely of illustrated, painted, and drawn components sourced from books at North Carolina State University Libraries.

Alphonse Mucha: the complete posters and panels (1983)
Pin-up dreams: the glamour art of Rolf Armstrong (2001)
Calendar girl: sweet & sext pin-ups of the postwar era (2003)
J.C Leyendecker: American imagist (2008)
The art of Robert E. McGinnis (2014)
Jeremy Mann (2015)
Birds of the eastern forest (1970)


PRISM

About

A student-led, annually recurring exhibition at North Carolina State University for the Art + Design graduating class. Through the coursework leading up to the exhibition students analyze the history of their individual processes of ideation and design, examine present expressions of their work and explore possibilities for future implementation.

Responsibilities

As class-nominated project manager, Téa organized and managed seven committees responsible for fundraising, marketing, branding, graphic design, exhibition design, photography and publishing. In addition to her leadership as manager, Téa initiated and helped design the Senior Show Catalog-- an unprecedented adjunct project celebrating each of her fellow students work.

Catalog Specifications
250 copies, 7 x 9 inch, 64 page, glossy finish, perfect-bound

INTERPERSONAL + CHARACTER

  • Leadership + Initiative

  • Project Management

  • Communication + Conflict Resolution

  • Community Building

  • Collaboration