Colin Merrik Middleton
Colin Merrik Middleton
Keene State College hosts the annual Academic Excellence Conference to honor students who have achieved great things in their own areas of academia. I was given the opportunity to design the poster advertising the event. I chose to focus on the idea of what a student actually is. What I found, is that students learn history. Regardless of where your expertise lie, you must first learn the do's and don'ts that have been established by experts over the last two hundred thousand years of human history. A good student must then take all of their knowledge gained and apply that knowledge to current issues. Essentially, we as students have access to a library two hundred thousand years in the making, that library is the documentation of everything that took us from the discivery of fire to this current world we live in.
The city at the top of the poster represents all of the collective knowledge we as a species has acquired over our history. The disintegration of the city represents the academic deconstruction of our past in order to reconstruct a new future. As this city of knowledge is decoded, those ideas may be mixed and matched with others throughout time, thus creating the possibility for new concepts that could potentially change our entire perspective of life.