In the final year of Maya's undergraduate at Coastal Carolina University, she entered a contest for a graphic design field trip to New York City right before the start of the Covid pandemic lockdowns. The contest was to design New York City-themed postcard, and she was fortunate to be one of the ten students selected for the trip.
During the two-day trip, the group embarked on a variety of design-related excursions. At the Cooper Hewitt museum, they viewed the exhibit, Herbert Bayer: Bauhaus Master.
At Center for the Book Arts, the group engaged in a letterpress workshop to make saddle-stitched booklets.
They also traveled to Brooklyn to visit the design parlor,
Funeral.
Two designers at Funeral kindly shared insightful advice and wisdom on establishing a career as a designer with the students.
The trip concluded with an intimate group tour of the design studio,
Pentagram
in New York City.