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Student Designs: So You've Been Publicly Shamed

During the spring 2016 semester, students in Professor Laurel Long's upper-division illustration class designed artwork to reflect themes of So You've Been Publicly Shamed by Jon Ronson, CSUN's 2016-2017 Freshman Common Reading. The designs displayed here were selected by the Freshman Common Reading Program because they offer particularly rich and beautiful visual evidence for some of the book's many meanings. 

Scroll through the thirteen images in the collection below. They're well worth the time! Or view them all side by side in this single-page gallery.

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  • Alanar Miguel's design features part of a face outlined in white and nearly overwhelmed by darkness and disorder.
  • Kay-Ann Miguel's design blurs the distinction between life and virtual reality.
  • Angelica Macaspac's design features sharp words, arrows, and fingers poking the back of a slouching figure.
  • Cherie Barbeau's design shows a marbled head turned away in shame.
  • Byron Zuniga's design emphasizes shame as spectacle using a circus theme.
  • In Stephanie Bush's design, shaming words from hostile mouths spotlight a lone figure.
  • This design by Marianna Reyes features a Medusa-like figure with creepy tresses ending in eyes, noses, and mouths.
  • In this design by Louis Barreto, social media symbols blanket a figure while hands cover his ears and mouth.
  • Elizabeth Rodriguez offers a nightmarish vision of Twitter birds as they peck away at a victim imaged in a cell phone photo.
  • Sarah Guzman's design shows SHAME tying down a Gulliver-like figure.
  • In Yong Chun's design, a figure silhouetted by harsh white light walks through a dirty urban landscape.
  • In Rachael Silveri's design, ominous red figures gossip mercilessly as they surround a silhouetted man figured in red and black.
  • Teni Haroutunians depicts shadowy figures surrounding a half-buried victim in a vortex of shame.
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