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James Walker believes design influences the way we interact within our physical spaces, whether we're outside or in. An MFA student in VCU's Visual Communication and Design program, James is a native of rural southern Illinois and earned a degree in graphic design at Southern Illinois University in Carbondale.His most recent design project, Dead Bicycles, was developed to stimulate social interaction and local awareness. In it, he shrouded the left-behind bikes that often punctuate city streets, locked to a pole or tree, with silk-screened Tyvek covers that read: Here Lies a Dead Bike.

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