Recieved First Place in this competition for Columbia College Chicago to redesign the Harrison CTA Stop in 2005. The CTA Stop was built in April 2008. The Re-Design was titled ‘Harrison Haiku’ to display artwork and poetry from Columbia students. Conceptually, many haiku’s use the beauty of the Japanese Maple Tree as the basis of and metaphors for these structured poems. My Team took this idea to larger than life graphics incorporating student work, way finding, and train station / school branding. The colors were taken from Columbia College’s new color pallet and was used to show the transformation of the tree through the seasons, transitioning from red to orange to yellow and finally to green, symbolizing the emergence of artists finding themselves and growing through the Columbia College curriculum.
