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fashion/textiles
Rebecca Wendlandt
Over the five years Rebecca spent as an undergraduate design student at UC Davis, she learned how to approach fashion and textile design from a fresh perspective, creating new and innovative garments, accessories, and textiles. she's had the opportunity to explore manipulating fabric, adding structural elements to garments, and reinterpreting common garment forms in order to create new and exciting designs. Rebecca's future goals include starting a career in the field of wearable art or theatrical costume design.
Irene Bonner
Irene is graduating in 2006 with a Textiles and Fashion emphasis, and minors in English and Textiles and Clothing. After graduation, her immediate plan for the future is training and saving money in order to hike the Pacific Crest Trail in 2007. Further plans involve working in the apparel industry and eventually returning to school for a postgraduate degree. Among other possibilities she is considering designing outdoor wear or even field hockey goalie gear. She loves birds, field hockey, and topographic maps, and hopes to one day own a collection of jackets.
interior architecture
Ding Liu
Ding Liu, was born and raised in Mainland China. In the summer of 2004 Ding transferred to UC Davis from Sacramento City College, with an emphasis in art studio. Ding has been a student intern at the California Lighting Technology Center since December 2004, where he provided assistance in lighting prototype construction and research of energy efficient lighting technologies. Ding graduated in August of 2006 with a Bachelor of Science degree in Environmental Design with an emphasis in Interior Architecture. Ding is continuing his education for a Master's degree in Architecture at the University of Pennsylvania in 2007.
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Holly Allen
Holly will be graduating in Spring, 2006 with a BS in Design, Interior Architecture emphasis. She brings with her nearly 15 years experience in construction and a BA in Fine Art, Sculpture emphasis.
Often mistaken for an earth sciences person, she spends a great deal of time outside examining topography and site for organizational clues to inform interior human habitats. Professional goals are driven by a commitment to affordable and sustainable construction with special interests in creative re-use of materials and places.
visual communications
Rosanna Yau
Rosanna is a Design Major emphasizing in Visual Communications from Fresno, CA. During her time at UCD, she was the Graphics Director of the ASUCD Creative Media Graphics design organization, a KDVS 90.3 FM radio dj and a founding member and VP of the Pixel VisCom Club. She is moving to the Bay Area after graduation and looks forward to experimenting on her own projects, exploring her countless interests, and going to grad school. She inspires to be a queen of all trades and intends to use design as a tool to make social change.
Kazuto Nakanishi
Kaz became interested in Design when he started making websites back in high school. Although he was not aware at the time, browsing through websites for countless hours trained him to think critically about layout, type, color, and imagery. During his time at the UC Davis Design Program, he met Professor Danh Nguyen, who opened his eyes to the world typography, Artist/Designer Kristina Lewis, who taught him the joy of form & process, and Professor Glenda Drew, who given him the freedom to be himself and explore. While Kaz enjoyed learning the various fields of Design, he became more interested in the professors and the profession of teaching Design. He is currently working towards a MFA in Design to become an instructor, while taking on personal projects that keeps him awake throughout the night. Kaz loves small type, hats, brown clothing, and San Francisco. He believes insomnia can cure your lack of creativity.