Senior Exhibition 2025 projects include:

• A new hair product for Andis Corporation that combines the functionality of a trimmer and clipper in one tool that is being named after the MIAD student designer.
• A pet gear product line designed for Dungeons & Dragons lovers and their pets.
• An app/website providing a one-stop platform for formerly incarcerated individuals, including housing, employment, healthcare and job resources; engaging tutorials and courses on internet skills and social media usage; and community connections to foster long-term success and reduce recidivism.
• A fully illustrated beginners cookbook for soups and stews with QR codes that link to short, animated tutorial videos – demonstrating essential cooking skills like making a roux or chopping onions.
• An educational platform including physical and digital tools that introduces children to design fields like product, interior and graphic design – areas and careers rarely covered in early education.
• An interactive application that redefines reading as a solitary activity through guided reading strategies, customizable chatrooms for collaborative reflection and a “Shazam-like” book and quotation locator.
• A fantasy-based historical animatic of civil war soldiers confronting vampires that comprises over 100 digitally inked drawings.
• An exploration of grief and loss through sculpture, drawing and stone lithography that confronts faith, doubt and familial expectations – and, ultimately, personal growth.
• Expressive and joyful paint markings celebrating food as a gateway to reconnecting identity and heritage that surpasses language and conventional understanding.
• An animated short about the history of Black and queer bars in Milwaukee and how they connect to current community organizations like the House of History and Diverse and Resilient.  
• A reimagined, sustainable apartment community in an empty Milwaukee office building for adults and young professionals who have to rent for longer periods of time due to the current housing market.
• A 16-page comic combing elements of the Eddystone Lighthouse’s real history and mermaid folk stories from countries bordering the Celtic Sea. The result is a tale of three half-fish, half-human sisters and a lighthouse with its own spirit.

Thank you to our 2025 Senior Exhibition sponsors!