Brief - Adam Drizen:

A cylinder dress that explores the impact of social media through the use of icons and logos. Inspired by #TAG Street Art, the dress progressively expands representing how as the population grows, individuals become more entangled in social media. 

As the centuries have turned, social media has swallowed the population. Many are found putting on a facade or being two-faced. Currently, 80% of the U.S population has a profile on at least one social media platform and spends over three hours a day on these platforms. As people become obsessed with communicating through photos and videos, they don't realize that they are withdrawing from social interactions in person and the harmful effect this has on society. Many would expect social interactions to grow, but as the population increases, so do social media users. The dress is an abstract way of showing a significant issue regarding our country today.

Brief - Zoe Falkson:

The Time Cape: A large, cylindrical cape that represents social media’s effect on in-person socializing. Made from several pieces of laser-cut wood and fabric, the social media icons on the cape resemble a hombre compactness.

While social media makes it possible to interact with people from all across the globe, this advancement in technology inhibits face-to-face socialization. The goal of the Time Cape is to represent and inform the public of this dilemma by contrasting the precipitous rise in social media with the sudden downfall in social interaction, specifically among millennials and post-millennials.

The Time Cape is constructed from several pieces of circularly shaped wood to form the exponential shape of the cape to mimic the rise in social media. In contrast, the pattern of the social media icons becomes sparser toward the bottom of the cape, to represent the decrease in social interaction. The hope is that when millennial and post-millennials see this cape, they will recognize the negative impact social media platforms have on interaction in the real world.