Classics

Tigerlily Hillenbrand-Arlt Wins the 7th Annual Classics Button Badge Contest

This year the Department of Classics held its seventh annual Button Badge competition!

Each year we ask undergraduate students to create a design that they feel represents Classics at Brown University. The chosen image is printed on button badges as a fun way to show appreciation for the department and identify their fellow classmates. Tigerlily Hillenbrand-Arlt created this year’s winning design.

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This is what Tilly said about the design:

Classics at Brown incorporates the rich diversity of eastern and western traditions. I wanted to emphasize the aesthetic qualities that gesture towards a classical Greek past alongside a classical Indian past. My design makes use of my artistic 'spolia,' foregrounding an older illustration of a vase depicting Arion against a more recent wallpaper design that makes use of several relics of the Mughal period. The symbolism of the various elements, to me, is rather secondary to creating an aesthetic unity between these eastern and western influences, where the colors and patterns coalesce into an ornate, cohesive, and, dare I say, wonderful mess.