Class of 2024
Each spring, Fleet Library recognizes the hard work and dedication of its graduating student employees by purchasing a book in their name for the library's collections. Below are the titles selected by our undergraduate and graduate student workers from the class of 2024, accompanied by the inspiration behind their selections. We thank them for all their hard work!
DAI ASANO | Photography, MFA
"My journey in risd started from my realization of Japanese identity which rooted in Zen. Zen shaped 60s and 70s contemporary art but I believe Zen Philosophy has more potential for our contemporary society. There are several books by D.T. Suzuki in Fleet but I couldn't find this one."
The Zen of Creativity by ISBN: 9780345466334Publication Date: 2005
In The Zen of Creativity, American Zen master John Daido Loori presents a book that taps the principles of the Zen arts and aesthetic as a means to unlock creativity and find freedom in the various dimensions of our existence. Beautifully illustrated and punctuated with poems and reflections from Loori's own spiritual journey, The Zen of Creativity presents a multilayered, bottomless source of insight into our creativity.
JUNYI CAO | Textiles, BFA
"It's a new book that talks about the relationship between architecture and textiles, exploring the boundaries between softness and rigidity."
Architectures of Weaving by ISBN: 9783868597394Publication Date: 2023
Architectures of Weaving reimagines the art of weaving as the combined result of fiber techniques and cultural practice. Addressing today's urgent energetic and environmental challenges, the book explores new approaches for resilient and adaptable material systems by examining the boundaries between softness and rigidity, material and shape, and functionality and structure. science, and textile technology.
SIMONE KHANYISILE HADEBE | Illustration, MFA
"I absolutely love Deena's illustrative style and this is her debut novel. I really want her work to be seen globally as an example of an inspirational rising Egyptian graphic novelist."
Shubeik Lubeik by ISBN: 9781524748418Publication Date: 2023
A brilliantly original debut graphic novel that imagines a fantastical alternate Cairo where wishes really do come true. Shubeik Lubeik is the story of three people who are navigating a world where wishes are literally for sale Although their stories are fantastical--featuring talking donkeys, dragons, and cars that can magically avoid traffic--each of these people grapples with the very real challenge of trying to make their most deeply held desires come true.
SARA JEKELY | Film/Animation/Video, BFA
"I am from Hungary, and this film is a vital part of Hungarian and Eastern European animation. Probably the most well known to foreigners of our animated films, but still not known enough! It is an incredible film and would hugely enrich the collection."
Son of the White Mare (DVD) by Publication Date: 2021
Legendary Hungarian animator Marcell Jankovics created a definitive masterpiece of world cinema with this psychedelic adaptation of Hungarian fairy tales. Traversing an otherworldly canvas, SON OF THE WHITE MARE follows mythic folk heroes Treeshaker, Stonecrumbler and Irontemperer as they descend into the perilous Underworld on an epic quest to battle the forces of ancient evil and save the cosmos.
ATTILA LASSANA KARAM JOHN | Film/Animation/Video, BFA
"The best way to learn anatomy."
Stonehouse's Anatomy: Anatomy for All Artists by Publication Date: 2020
The idea for this book arises from all the knowledge of artistic anatomy that the author accumulated during a long period as a professional illustrator. While this book offers advice and guidance on drawing anatomy in general, the author would love for it to become a guide to understanding and loving ourselves and other bodies. Seok takes us on an adventure to discover the human body, having included in the book many interesting explanations and facts from a biological perspective that, in the end, help us draw even better.
PRITHI KHALIQUE | Digital + Media, MFA
"A favorite childhood read."
Blood and Guts in High School by ISBN: 9780802127624Publication Date: 2017
A masterpiece of surrealist fiction, steeped in controversy upon its first publication in 1984, Blood and Guts in High School is the book that established Kathy Acker as the preeminent voice of post-punk feminism. Fantastical, sensual, and fearlessly radical, this hallucinatory collage is both a comic and tragic portrait of erotic awakening.
NAHYUN KIM | Illustration, BFA
"I wanted other students to discover color theory in the style of illustrators and have a more recent reference for digital colors."
Artists' Master Series: Color & Light by ISBN: 9781912843411Publication Date: 2022
A select few hugely popular industry experts reveal techniques they use to infuse characters with the advanced levels of color and light that make their work instantly recognizable and universally admired. Their in-depth illustrated advice, detailed step-by-step tutorials, enlightening case studies, and awe-inspiring inspiration provide a distinctive and invaluable blend of advanced techniques that can't be found anywhere else.
JASMINE J. LEE | Industrial Design, BFA
"This book gives you a different perspective on birds and how to observe them. At first glance it might look like a subtle, bird watching photographs. However once you flip through, the book gets gradually more and more fascinating and humorous! There is a page that observes birds' poop in a very educational but also funny manner. They record bird hiding the shadows of objects in the middle of the street. It merges education while keeping it fun. A plus is that the graphic design of the book is top level."
Ornithology by Publication Date: 2023
Anne Geene and Arjan de Nooy combine visual tools from the science of birds with the specific characteristics of photography, thereby imparting a fresh look at both. Their classifications form comical results through creative and associative thinking, and yet they use the scientific method to also create an artistic microcosm that seems far removed from its strictly ornithological counterpart.
ANIK MARIE LEVCOVICI | Printmaking, BFA
"As a Kewpie collector, I noticed the library does not have a book dedicated to just Kewpies! Rose O'Neill was a wonderful illustrator as well, so hopefully having this book around (and with the recent trends in kewpie collection) will inspire some appreciation for Rose O'Neill and little antique bisque dolls."
Collecting Rose o'Neill's Kewpies by ISBN: 9780764318559Publication Date: 2003
Celebrated artist and writer Rose O'Neill created the Kewpie in 1909, fashioning a roly-poly elf with a fat child's body, small wings, and a turnip-top head. With over 540 color photos, this extensive price guide features a wonderful assortment of early Kewpies in bisque, chinaware, and metal, Kewpidoodle (the Kewpies' dog), Scootles (the Baby Tourist who visited Kewpieville), and many other Rose O'Neill related items.
ELIZABETH VIOLA LONG | Illustration, BFA
"I adore how this book captures the rapturous agonies of coming of age and falling in and out of love. I think The Marriage Plot perfectly captures the in-between space of graduating college and becoming a 'real adult.' Also, there is a fun Carr Haus cameo."
The Marriage Plot by ISBN: 9781250014764Publication Date: 2012
Are the great love stories of the nineteenth century dead? Or can there be a new story, written for today and alive to the realities of feminism, sexual freedom, prenups, and divorce? Madeleine Hanna, dutiful English major, is writing her senior thesis on Jane Austen and George Eliot, purveyors of the marriage plot that lies at the heart of the greatest English novels. As Madeleine studies the age-old motivations of the human heart, real life, in the form of two very different guys, intervenes. As all three of them face life in the real world they will have to reevaluate everything they have learned.
ASHLEY MAI NGUYEN | Illustration, BFA
"I choose this book because Terada Katsuya has been a large influence in my own practice within the illustration department. He is well recognized worldwide due to his unique line quality in his manga illustrations and has a rich imagination."
Sketch by ISBN: 9784756254276Publication Date: 2022
The one and only legendary illustrator Katsuya Terada, a.k.a. RAKUGAKING (The Sketch King), well known as a pioneer who is always seeking new ideas and motifs for his drawings, has finally revealed his RAKUGAKI sketches and illustrations, long kept only in his sketch book. This is the best and most comprehensive collection of Katsuya Terada's pencil sketches, making it a must-have book for both his hardcore fans and also to illustrators in general.
JENNIFER TRAN | Textiles, BFA
"I love her work, and the Fleet didn't have a dedicated book about her art."
May All Things Dissolve in the Ocean of Bliss by Publication Date: 2014
A conversation between Midori Matsui and Aya Takano: thoughts about art viewership, and all things coexisting in a single world.
PEISHAN YU | Illustration, BFA
"This book is published by my favorite publisher, Enchanted Lion Book’s new imprint Unruly. It is a reinterpretation of a classic folktale that pushes the boundary of what a picture book could be."
The True Story of a Mouse Who Never Asked for It by ISBN: 9781592703203Publication Date: 2021
The True Story of a Mouse Who Never Asked for It is a visually striking, deeply feminist, contemporary retelling of a Spanish folk tale, rediscovered and brought to new life by author Ana Cristina Herreros and illustrator Violeta Lopiz. In Herreros and Lopiz's version--which sharply diverges from the most mainstream and popularized telling of the story--a mouse is approached by many suitors, rejecting all but one: a cat, whose gentle meow assures her that he won't bring her harm.
