Design students tackle WP
May 7th, 2008Over at his fine blog, Jakob Voss has highlighted some neat work by design students at Texas State University.
From Jakob’s blog:
Mike Perez, design student at Texas State University, and his fellow students Mark Decker and Jacob Brubaker have created a wonderful campaign for Wikipedia in their design class. The posters or ads each show a straight view of an everyday person as an expert on a specific subject and a mind map of their thought process. This are the best ads for Wikipedia that I have seen since the Wikipedia promotion images that André created back in 2005 for the German Wikipedia. Just have a look (photos at flickr only because of copyright restrictions) and enjoy if you like Wikipedia as much as I do!
Nice work! Let us know if you’ve seen any other creative treatments…
Jay Walsh, Head of Communications<
May 8th, 2008 at 06:34
These are fantastic! Are you going to sell them in the cafepress shop?
May 8th, 2008 at 06:45
Wow, they are so wonderful. I love them.
(quibble… where’s a woman?)
May 9th, 2008 at 15:41
I just wanted to say thanks for noticing our work. It was great learning all about Wikipedia, and a lot of fun actually putting these ads together. We photographed some interesting characters, and came across some really interesting wikipedia entries. I’m really proud of our work. It’s really cool to know that there are so many others out there who appreciate it!
And just so you know, everyone in our class (including our professor) wants to wear that shirt!
Thanks again!
Mike E. Perez
May 10th, 2008 at 05:39
–>> As long i’ve known Mike, he’s been resourceful in his creativity. That multiplies like rabbits when he’s amoung others and it just explodes.
Killer work, as usual Mike.
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May 11th, 2008 at 01:56
I would also like to say thanks for the recognition. I learned a great deal about wikipedia in the process. More-so the interesting history of the t-shirt. Wiki-it.