Alumni Erik Freer recently graduated from Yale with an MFA in Graphic Design. The title for his MFA Thesis project, “Day Book,” is based off of the word daybook, defined as an account book or diary. The Day Book is a palimpsestic documentation of two months of two-hour daily collage sessions along with personal writing pertaining to his visual methodology, and a series of annotated essays and excerpts of thinking that have been influential in his process.

The book was printed digital offset, and perfect bound at 11.5 x 16.5 on heavy text weight paper

Many of the spreads become more poetic, exploring a breadth of visual potentialities in the materials I had created or subverted in and around my studio.

What were your favorite classes at Parsons?
One of my favorite classed at Parsons was a class I didn’t even take, but one I watched from afar, taught by the artist, educator and fashion designer Pascale Gatzen and fashion designer Sarah Aphrodite. In the class, called “Love,” students produced the garments they attended class in, for themselves, each week. I participated tangentially, watching as my friends and roommates would construct pieces they loved, to wear in to school, which inspired me to create my own.