If you're in the NYC area, don't miss Off The Wall, Yale's MFA Graphic Design Thesis Show 2010—you won't regret the "trek" out to New Haven.

Off the Wall is an exhibition of the print, motion, site-specific and interactive work of this year's fifteen MFA candidates in the Graphic Design program at the Yale University School of Art.

Faced with the challenge of presenting their work in a way that celebrates both the individuality of each designer and the spirit of the class as a whole, the students decided to take their work off the walls. In a gesture that reduces the exhibition to its most essential form, all works will be placed on the floor. As the title implies, Off the Wall is unorthodox and intuitive. Instead of grouping the work by maker or medium, it will be arranged loosely, letting visitors make their own links and connections between objects. By presenting their work on the floor, on the same surface that viewers stand, the designers ask the viewers to engage with objects they encounter. Each piece becomes accessible, allowing visitors an opportunity to pick up, read, view and directly experience all works on display.

During Yale's intense, two-year program, students build a coherent, investigative, and experimental body of work, culminating in a thesis. Though each student's thesis project expresses a singular methodology, they share common features: the application of a visual method to studio work and the writing and design of a catalogue raisonné. Alongside designers' print, video, and interactive work, Off the Wall will feature the fifteen thesis books, which contextualize the designers' work in relation to their emerging practices.

Off the Wall: Yale MFA Graphic Design Thesis Show 2010 May 15-22, 2010 Closing reception: Saturday, 7-10 pm, May 22, 2010
 Yale University, New Haven CT