Design Students Use Creativity to Promote Safety and Unity

BYU design students are in for a treat come December. The Department of Design is producing a quarantine zine, or “Quaranzine,” that will be filled with the creations of BYU students and alumni. Over the summer, the department held a contest for quarantine-related designs to include in the zine. All participants in the contest will be featured. The winners were announced on Instagram on July 1. “Students keep asking about when they’re going to get the zine,” said Liset Rivet, who runs the design department’s social media accounts. “They’re really excited about it.” But the call for Quaranzine art didn’t end there. The design department launched a new contest in October inviting design students and alumni to submit their original mask designs, which will also be featured in the zine in December. The winners of the mask contest were announced on November 3 on the Design Department’s Instagram. The winning masks will be produced and sold in the BYU store. https://www.instagram.com/p/CHI7uwyhcr0/ The first-place design was made by Alec Ahlstorm and featured the bottom half of the face of Brigham Young on a neck-gaiter mask, with a Y on the cheek. There was not a specific theme for the masks, and the four winning designs were each very different from the others. Rivet said that while the contest was an opportunity to inspire students’ creativity, she also hoped that it could help promote more safety on campus. “I hope that students will be more encouraged to wear masks. The fact that the winning mask will be sold on campus is so cool. Who wouldn’t want to see their design physically created? I hope that a lot of students feel encouraged to begin wearing their masks. This can hopefully better promote that,” Rivet said.