Student Spotlight: Sarah Mick

For her senior project, University of Wisconsin stu­dent Sarah Mick branded the pro­posed high-speed rail­way for Wisconsin together with Christopher Paul. Called The Redline, the project fea­tures iden­tity design, tick­ets, posters and even an iPhone app. Sarah has been post­ing var­i­ous pieces on her Flickr account, so keep an eye out for more.

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6 Comments

  1. Jason
    Posted December 15, 2010 at 2:12 pm | Permalink

    This is a great cam­paign. I really like the vin­tage posters with the cur­rent details.

  2. Miss Moss
    Posted December 16, 2010 at 4:25 am | Permalink

    amaz­ing! can’t believe this is stu­dent work.

  3. visualingual
    Posted December 16, 2010 at 10:02 am | Permalink

    Great-looking design, but you know what both­ers me? That the woman is trav­el­ing in style while the man has made a smart busi­ness deci­sion. I know we’re all sup­posed to be caught up in “Mad Men” fever these days, but I don’t think sex­ism needs to be mak­ing a comeback.

  4. Sarah
    Posted December 16, 2010 at 11:49 am | Permalink

    @visualingual — Hey! I’m really glad you said that, actu­ally. We toiled over that ver­biage deci­sion for a really long time try­ing to decide whether it would come off as lit­eral or as a sort of tongue-in-cheek ref­er­ence to the rigid gen­der expec­ta­tions of the 50’s. In the end, we decided to go with the lat­ter. I agree whole­heart­edly with your sen­ti­ment and actu­ally study fem­i­nism as a part of my other major. Anyway — just wanted to hit you back and let you know that it was intended as a joke/critique on the past — but it’s def­i­nitely some­thing for me to con­sider in the future if this piece would go into any fur­ther development!

    Thanks every­one else for the lovely comments!

  5. visualingual
    Posted December 17, 2010 at 11:10 am | Permalink

    Sarah, I’m really glad to hear that. I guess the tongue-in-cheek nuance was lost on me; what about flip­ping the text between the two posters? In any case, this a cool project, and I’m glad to see you tweak­ing his­tor­i­cal aes­thet­ics [and values]!

  6. Sarah
    Posted December 17, 2010 at 5:07 pm | Permalink

    @visualingual — Hey, thanks for the reply! It’s funny you say that because I have been think­ing about this since I read your com­ment and flip­ping the two lines is exactly what we should have done, and it would clearly com­mu­ni­cate the mean­ing, too! I’m going to swap them, actu­ally, when I post the work on my own site. Great suggestion :)

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