College for Creative Studies, Detroit
PROJECTS | 2021
Re-Form: Reformation of Thermoforming Materials
Joseph Cardenas, Sarah Craven
Re-Form is a plastic film made from sugar beet molasses and spent grains. The project seeks to create a biodegradable alternative to thermo-plastics in consumer-packaging.
Finalist Team
The Blot Project
Jasmine Brown, Heejung Chang, Ali Loftus, Sophia Yauck
The Blot Project is a socio-environmental project that aims to increase self-health engagement and reduce menstrual waste through developing materials from existing waste streams of chitosan, cranberry, and nettle; engineering pH-activated materials to accelerate the schedule of material degeneration; and encouraging the self-monitoring of menstrual blood to detect common vaginal illnesses and diseases.
Webtopia
Imani Brown, Gigi Lin, Yena Kim, Megha Suresh Kumar
Webtopia is a bioremediation web that forms a symbiotic relationship with mycelium to degrade waste found in soil.
Instructors - 2021
Melanie McClintock
Melanie McClintock is a multi-media artist, CMF designer, and educator. Before receiving her master's degree in Color, Material, and Finish Design (CMF) from the College of Creative Studies (CCS), she spent two decades working in the fashion industry. During this time, she designed her signature collection within her shop, Ai Ai Gasa, in Brooklyn, NY; taught fashion design at VCUQatar in Doha, Qatar; and spearheaded/directed a two-year, cross-cultural program in Java, Indonesia, to increase innovation in textiles (and ceramics). A growing interest in footwear led her from Indonesia to Italy, where she took courses at Domus Academy and Polimoda, and finally onto Detroit, where she completed her graduate studies and soon secured a teaching position within the graduate department (CMF) at CCS. Her recent exhibition, Color Lab, focused on the materiality of color through self-cultivated, place-based pigments. Melanie's research interests include objects and experiences with a Sense of Place, the Materiality of Color, the Found Object as Art (Seeing), Interactive Environments, Creative Archiving, Making as Research, Re-Imagining Waste Materials (Scraps), Design Systems/Processes, and Trend Futures.
Sally Erickson-Wilson
After receiving her master's degree in Textile Design from the Royal College of Art, Sally began an extensive career in Color, Materials, and Finish [CMF] Design at Peugeot S.A. in Paris, working for the Peugeot and Citroën brands. This was followed by a seven-year stint in Italy working for Ford's Ghia studio and Fiat as a CMF Designer. At Ghia, the work focused on advanced concepts including the Ford Focus. At Fiat, Sally led a team of designers developing creative CMF strategies for both production and concept vehicles. Sally returned to Ford, working in Michigan, the UK, and Germany, as Chief Designer where she was able to develop her skills at a time when the CMF studio practice was gaining ground as its own recognized discipline. When CCS launched the MFA Program in Color and Materials Design in 2014, Sally became the Department Chair, leading the only graduate program in the United States dedicated to this relatively young design practice. Her research interests include Color Meaning, Color Behavior, Color Relationships, Materials Innovation, Natural Textile Processes, Sustainability, Textile Design and Techniques, the City of Detroit, Collaborative Design Practice, Design History, Applied Color, Material & Finish Design [ CMF], Trend Research, Consumer Motivations.