‘Believe in Auburn and love it’

“I chose to do my project around the fight song because I felt like I could use more symbolism so that’s what I drew my inspiration from and I could create Auburn inspired motifs,” Buckalew said. “Doing this project as Auburn inspired was nice because last semester when we learned to do repeating patterns and do projects like this it was more of find inspiration where you can. With this, I felt like it was important to all of us to be able to do a project about Auburn.”

Using words from Auburn’s fight song, Buckalew’s design presentation was uniquely Auburn as her repeating pattern was shown being used as a wrap bracelet, hat band, handle wrap and hair bow.

The design challenge was an idea created by members of the College of Human Sciences Development team. Using feedback from the judges, one or two of the best student designs from the challenge will be selected and then created for real wearable products such as scarfs and pocket squares that will be distributed to College of Human Sciences donors as gifts during the holiday season.

Sullivan Calton, a senior majoring in apparel design and production management, took a different route with his design by incorporating the Auburn spirit along with academics. Calton initially began his journey at Auburn studying computer science but ultimately switched his major to apparel design and production management and he hasn’t looked back since.

He wanted his design to embody the Auburn spirit but the meaning to go well beyond football. The result was a design featuring Aubie and an eagle seizing a diploma in a pattern that would be catered more toward men’s sleepwear if put into production.

“I knew I wanted my idea to be Aubie related because Aubie is such a character throughout the college world, but I didn’t want my design to necessarily scream football,” Calton said. “So much of Auburn is football, but also there’s so much more besides that. I think when someone outside of the south see’s Auburn they might think football, but we are the pinnacle of engineering in the south and one of the best academic schools, so I really wanted to celebrate that as well. Thinking of that, I brought it all together and I came up with the idea of a tiger and an eagle seizing a diploma.”

College of Human Sciences Dean Susan Hubbard also stopped by to view the presentations and emphasized to the students that this is another example of high-impact practices being put in place.

“This is a real-world project and it’s another way to share to the outside world what you are learning and doing in the classroom,” Hubbard said. “It’s taking something you would see in the real-world and making it happen so when you are interviewing for future jobs you can say ‘I was a part of this really cool project where I had to design and present’ and that’s what the real-world is about. Because of projects like this, we can tell our story in human sciences better and showcase your work.”