Design students go big with their design projects, creating everything from new tourist destinations to the next biggest brand. You’ll be blown away with these New Talent 2022 Award entries!
When you think of museums, you usually picture a place filled with tasteful, high-end work. That’s not the case with the Museum of Vulgarity (above), a non-mainstream museum that covers sensitive and controversial works while maintaining a sense of exclusivity by offending mainstream audiences. The concept was created by Xizhong Zhang, a student at the Maryland Institute College of Art, under the direction of Professor Andrew Waters. Zhang also created the museum’s logo and promotional material, which included banners, lanyards, business cards, and stationary. Regarding the logo, Zhang tried to capture the curve shape from a sink drain trap, which is something that, surprisingly, can be compared to every one of us: “Everyone has their own secrets, preferences, addictions, etc. Even some of them are dark, evil, nasty. But we can’t see them from the outside. Just like the water trap – clean outside, dirty inside.” In doing this, Zhang brings peoples’ ‘vulgarities’ to light and makes the viewers wonder what displays the musuem has.
