Colleen Cummings
The American Runaways: A study on 'home' for the American Expatriate
My study focuses on the American Expatriate's experience.
When one visits another country, you cannot help but feel that everything is so absolutely bright and new and different. It is no wonder why everyone loves to travel – you get to scoop up all of the pretty things about this new country, pack them in your suitcase and pin them up on your home as fond memories.
But when you permanently move, you suddenly begin to also see this new country for what it truly is. You see the way a city breathes, how a healthcare system works, how politics sway opinions, how a whole new group of people think – and for the American, that another world exists outside of America.
Book design, typography and writing are at the heart of my final year project. I've produced a series of work that voices the American-Expatriate experience by the American-Expatriates themselves.
ISTD 2020 Submission to 'Migration' Brief: Who's Calling Who a Lost Generation? Excerpts from Hemingway's Paris Years (Awarded membership to the International Society of Typographic Designers (ISTD))
Spreads from You Say Tomato I Say Tomatoe
1 - Spreads from Who's Calling Who a Lost Generation? Excerpts from Hemingway's Paris Years (Awarded membership to the International Society of Typographic Designers (ISTD))
2 - Cover of Who's Calling Who a Lost Generation? Excerpts from Hemingway's Paris Years
3 - Close up page from Who's Calling Who a Lost Generation? Excerpts from Hemingway's Paris Years
4 - Close up pages from Who's Calling Who a Lost Generation? Excerpts from Hemingway's Paris Years
5 - Spreads from The American-Irish: A journalistic study on Americans living in Ireland in 2020
6 - Spread from The American-Irish
7- Spread from You Say Tomato I Say Tomatoe: A travel guide for American students entering Dublin for the first time
8 - Spreads from You Say Tomato I Say Tomatoe
9 - Poster Series, The City : Philadelphia and Dublin
10 - Poster Series, The Coastal Town: Wildwood, NJ and Skerries, Dublin