The 2025 Boston University Graphic Design Senior Exhibition, Sown Together, cultivates the metaphor of a garden and the interwoven practice of design to explore the balance between individual expression, collaborative innovation, and collective growth.
Inspired by the way gardens thrive in their diversity, Sown Together is its own vegetable garden where ideas and individuality are planted side by side. Our garden is modular and interconnected
in nature, sectioned by “vegetable” to showcase overlapping themes and subjects; Sown Together demonstrates how distinct perspectives come together to enrich our design landscape. Every student’s work brings something unique, adding color and depth to this collective and flourish-
ing garden.
Sown Together stitches together the colorful textiles of forty-four Graphic Design BFA candidates’ “New Horizons” projects and senior thesis explorations. With a playful and organic approach, we embrace the raw, evolving side of graphic design. Just as plants grow stronger when nurtured alongside others, the GD class of 2025 celebrates the collaborative nature of design, growing together as a unified, yet diverse, creative community.
Booklet:
As the booklet design lead I decided to use the grid system, created to mimic aerial views of farmland, as the foundation of the booklet typography layout. I wanted to feature the graphic elements the visual design team created as much as possible to incorporate the vegetable, flowers, bunny, the red stitching, as well as using the geometric green shapes as visual guidelines. To add a more fun element the bunny at the bottom of each page creates a flip book and the cover has a half page that when flipped reveals the vegetable that grow underground. For binding I decide on sewing with brown thread as it fit well with our theme as well as the red stitching visual element.