DS Welcomes Jua Im & Jacqueline Juneau, Celebrates their Senior Theses

Designsensory is thrilled to announce that we are adding two talented individuals, former interns Jua Im and Jacqueline Juneau, to our team! Jua and Jacqueline graduated from University of Tennessee, Knoxville in May and will be starting full-time this July. We are excited to add Jua’s unique skills to our UX team and Jacqueline’s to our design team! They are sure to bring innovative ideas and fresh perspectives to the table.

Jua’s Senior Design Thesis
Endangered Birds Playing Cards

“My goal is to make this project real and expand it to other endangered species. By creating these cards, I got to learn more about really wonderful animals and [how they] tie into climate change. Hopefully, this speaks to others and gets people to learn more too,” Jua Im said about her project.

Jua imagined for her project a deck of cards developed in partnership with environmental organization The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Red List. Called the Endangered Birds Playing Cards, the project design highlights twelve small critically endangered birds. Paired with a website, the goal of this project is to increase awareness and engagement and raise funds (via sales of the cards) for the critically endangered animals.

The cards are both visually stunning and environmentally friendly, crafted using premium FSC-certified recycled paper sourced from sustainable forests. The inks used are vegetable-based, and the laminates are starch-based, minimizing harm to the planet. All shipping materials are also recyclable, reducing the cards’ environmental impact.

Jacqueline’s Senior Design Thesis
Sourdough: A Fresh Perspective

Jacqueline says, “What interested me the most was the sharing that was happening throughout the community of sourdough bakers. They share starters, recipes, pictures, oven set-ups, scoring patterns; the list is endless and varied!”

Intrigued by the mysterious and unique nature of starter and its ability to give people a taste of their environment, Jacqueline captured the sense of helpfulness and community among the sourdough bakers with an illustrated zine for beginners. She created fonts for the zine based on dough and scoring, and designed matching name tags for starters.

Left: Font based on bread dough

Right: Quote written in font based on dough scoring.

“Love doesn’t just sit there, like a stone, it has to be made, like bread. Remade all the time, made new.”
-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Lathe of Heaven

Taking the idea of community a step further, Jacqueline added an app concept that would help sourdough enthusiasts connect and share with each other.

We are so proud of our newest team members for their senior thesis projects and we can’t wait to see more of their creative ideas in action!