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The Intermission: Grad Show

When

Tuesday, April 19, 2016

Industry Reception

4:30pm—7pm

Doors Open

7pm—11pm

Where

The Liberty Grand

25 British Columbia Rd, Toronto

The Intermission is the 2016 York/Sheridan Program in Design’s annual showcase of the best work produced by its graduating class. It is a night for the industry to connect with emerging designers and explore their works, and for students to celebrate their past four years of hard work with you!

Getting to the Show

Getting to the Show

TTC
29 Dufferin → Saskatchewan Rd
504 King → Dufferin St
509 Harbourfront → Manitoba Dr
GO
Lakeshore West → Exhibition
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Frequently Asked Questions

Is the show free?

Yes, absolutely. However, we do help fund the event through sponsorships. If you’re interested in supporting this or future years, get in touch.

What can I expect to see and do at the show?

The show is an opportunity to browse the work and meet in-person with grads from one of Canada’s top design programs.

Will there be drinks?

Yes, we’ll have a cash bar available throughout the night.

What is the 'Industry Reception' portion of the show?

We dedicate a part of the night exclusively to people working in the design and creative industries. All students will be there to answer any questions about their work and experience. No ticket or registration is required.

I'll be at FITC on April 19th. Can I still come?

Definitely! The FITC schedule ends at 6pm on April 19th. We’re open until 11pm, so there’s lots of time if you’d like to swing by in the evening.

Where can I park my car?

There is a parking area located beside the Liberty Grand that will be available.

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Perfectly Imperfect

Approach/Perspective

I design a campaign that is based on the beauty standard among society and raises our body image and self-esteem issues to raise awareness of obsessing with physical appearance and lowering down of self-image. Nowadays society has been over exaggerating how beauty should be and it affects many people’s perspectives on beauty standards, specifically for young women. The ideal beauty standard imposed by our culture and society could easily affect body image and lower self-esteem. Additionally, medias like to mention how we should look and persuading us to follow the ideal perfection. We are forcefully living in the beauty standard that societies has imposed to us. It lowers people’s self-esteem when they compare themselves to the perfect ideal image. I believe that every one of us is beautiful in our own way and we should accept the imperfectness of ourselves and others. Therefore, I created a campaign that called “Perfectly Imperfect”. The magazine, “Perfect” would provide the essential information about nowadays beauty standards and reasons why this campaign is necessary. On the other hand, the photo filter app is targeting for asking support to the “Perfectly Imperfect” campaign and spread the awareness around the world.

Case Study

In order to raise the awareness, I create the campaign “Perfectly Imperfect” to increase people’s self-esteem by letting people understand that we do not need to blindly follow the beauty standard that society has imposed on us as everyone is perfect in our own way. “Perfectly Imperfect” campaign would explain why extreme beauty standards exist and why this issue is important to us.
I notice that photo filter apps have been widely used lately. People enjoy the fact it is very convincing for them to open the app from their smartphone and enhance their beauty just by few touch and share it on social medias. Beauty camera apps are very popular on the app store as it allows people to retouch and change their facial structure. These apps allow users to create a “perfect” image for them to upload to social medias. Therefore, I decided to design a photo filter app that has totally different purpose. This photo filter app — “Imperfect”, is made for people to support the campaign while having the ability to style up their photos. “Imperfect” allows users to apply different filters and positive text phrases from the book to support and promote the campaign. I am hoping that “Imperfect me” could help to spread the campaign all over the world while allowing users to have fun and enjoy an actual photo filter function.