Laurel Bancroft artist + designer1-412-719-6040
laurel@laurelbancroft.com

    the beginning and the end

    the beginning and the end

    Deinstall of the thesis show was yesterday.

    Laurel Bancroft Summer Collection

    Laurel Bancroft Summer Collection

    updated portfolio. Summer 2012.

    Mr. President's Mouth

    Mr. President’s Mouth

    The President almost entirely communicates with the public through premeditated and deliberate speeches. The public strongly emphasizes a President’s speaking skills, often valuing this characteristic more than his policies. These are the president’s mouths as portrayed in their official state portraits.

    Yard Campaign Signs

    Yard Campaign Signs

    A campaign sign usually announces a name, a candidate running for office. They are often left as unwanted artifacts of an election, littering a strip of highway or median. What if, besides just advertising a candidate’s name, these objects could contribute to the neighborhood they are in? By creating a spectacle, or a sense of […]

    Bring Your Own Handle

    Bring Your Own Handle

    The CTA El Train Pole demands a person to person encounter through physical touch. This often uncomfortable interface can be avoided with this modification (BYOH.) Creating a handle which belongs to one specific user can minimize unwanted physical touch and close proximity to strangers.  

    Carlos Vergara: Critical Spatial Practices: Brazil
    Carlos Vergara: Critical Spatial Practices: Brazil

    One of many beautiful/intriguing sites and sounds of my Brazil visit this summer at Carlos Vergara’s studio. To quote him roughly he states “Art is a catalyst, [it should] effect change without changing anything”

    First day of school
    First day of school

    Its the first day of school and I finished my new website AND my summer projects JUST in time.  My new summer research is posted on urban tourism– both a mapping exercise and a research paper.