Jada Akoto
2022 GD
But Look!

Printed Media

This collaged poster is compiled from found images that represent the idea of the American Dream, a now antiquated idea. It illustrates the idea of complacency within progressive movements and questions when can the work be done.

Ananya Raje Scindia
2024 GD
The Dolly Parton Antibody Extravaganza

Printed Media

Dolly Parton donated $1 million to Vanderbilt University as they worked towards developing the Moderna COVID mRNA Vaccine - therefore Dolly Parton herself created the COVID Vaccine. Inspired by patterned posters of the 1970s, this concert will be a strictly vaccinated celebration of her hard work towards scientific research.

Cameron Astles
2023 GD
Notes on Hejira

Printed Media, Video

Pulling song lyrics and notes from Hejira, an album gifted to me, Notes on Hejira provides a point of connection through time and space with one of the great unifying forces: music. 21, and driving home from school in Willimantic, listening to WILI, and they played, ‘Song for Sharon,’ which hit me like a thunderbolt. These sentiments still ring true nearly 50 years later.

Ollantay Avila
2024 GD
Mi Madre

Printed Media

Mi Madre is a still life made in the Graphic Design Studio Photography workshop. In the still life, I position objects that my mom has given me such as the stuffed animal, the necklaces, and the vase with other objects I associate with her to evoke a sense of nostalgia.

Gianamarie DeCicco
2024 GD
Codependency, 10/6/21

Printed Media

These works represent the phases that individuals go through after emotionally losing someone close to them. Together they are a process, while individually they are their own separate feeling.

Anmol Govinda Rao
2023 GD
Josef Müller-Brockmann

Printed Media

This landmark poster was designed for History of Graphic Design during the Fall semester of 2020. Designed as a tribute to Müller-Brockmann and the Swiss Style, the poster uses a vertical grid system, a deep orange colored title (inspired by the cover of Müller-Brockmann's Grid Systems book) and a neutral grotesk font. Further symbols like the white arrows where distributed across the poster as graphic elements, calling back to Müller-Brockmann’s redesign of the Swiss metro system signage. The poster also includes an essay detailing Müller-Brockmann’s works and his life.

Ryan Brandon Hsiao
2024 GD
time Vibed is time Well Spent Vol.1

Printed Media

Poster for a vintage DJ dance set. Typographical elements are based on the idea of time and clocks; the pattern structure is sampled from a sequence of dance moves, just like songs sample other songs. If you vibe to this set, your time will be well spent!

Ian Keliher
2023 GD
At—Last: GD MFA Atlas 2021

Printed Media

At—Last is a yearly Grad Studio 1 project that explores different interpretations of place, time, and self.

Jie Jian
2022 GD
An Intro to Boy’s Love Visual Novels

Publication

An introduction to Yaoi galgames through the window of windows XP.

Jie Jian
2022 GD
Microsoft Spider Solitaire

Printed Media

A booklet about microsoft spider solitaire through the ligatures of the Lingua typeface by Process Type Foundry.

Jie Jian
2022 GD
Vita Lemon Tea

Printed Media

A nostalgia zine of Vita Lemon Tea

Julie Alter
Corinne Ang
Labelle Chang
Baijun Chen
Leo Horton
Madi Ko
Soleil Singh
Amanda Yang
with additional help from Anmol Govinda Rao, Bryson Lee, Alejandro Molestina, Maxton O'Connor, and Marcus Soltzberg.
RISD GD 2021 Yearbook

Publication

The 2021 Rhode Island School of Design Senior Yearbook.

Janice Khang
2023 GD
Happy Place

Printed Media

We all strive to be happy, myself included. However, I realized the pursuit of an over-idealized, unattainable version of happiness was detrimental to my own. This portal to a happy place is somewhere people can achieve pure happiness, but it will never exist.

Mina Kim
2023 GD
Transport Accelerated Specimen book

Publication

Transport Accelerated is a font design inspired by Transport, a typeface used for road signs in many countries, mainly in the UK. It is described as a typeface that “performed efficiently for so long that most people are completely unaware.” Transport Accelerated was created with Transport glyphs as animation frames, capturing accelerating motion for each letter.

Nick Larson
2022 GD MFA
Something, Perhaps

Publication

A diagrammatic exploration of conspiracy, misinformation, and digital quotidian. The book’s signatures come apart to form a wall sided, double sided tiled poster.

Bryson Lee
2021 GD
Among the Leaves

Chain-link Fence, Paper Installation

Among the Leaves is a selection of curated images that explore the intersections between decoration, imitation, and nature. The silver fence and leaves serve as a “poster” form—meant to imitate natural leaves forming around architecture. Among the Leaves is was a part of a long term project that was meant to lure in viewers to explore a collection of images that guide my graphic design and artistic practice. This project is not only a collection, but a self portrait, a “portal” into what inspires me and how I view the phenomenon of imitating nature.

Hyelim Rose Lee
2024 GD
Dadaland

Printed Media

Surreal experience recollecting childhood films and memories

Youjin Lim (Amy)
2023 GD
Goes Round & Round

Printed Media

A poster of a collection of lines/templates that we use everyday to keep our life cycle and routine.

Youjin Lim (Amy)
2023 GD
Going back to the 19th Century

Printed Media

A zine that delivers a message of where I was influenced the most as a designer, which was vintage furniture in the home.

Yutong Liu (Winnie)
2023 GD
Spirit of objects 09/30/2021

Printed Media

The two posters are about anthropomorphism and non-anthropomorphism objects. The first one is talking about the reason why people created the concept of anthropomorphism and how people endow spirit on objects by myth, stories, or fears. The second one is a collection of random mundane objects in a dusty shelf.

Moritz Lónyay
2023 GD
INDIGO - 05/2021

Publication

A typographic publication showcasing indigo dye and its impact across cultures throughout history.

Mankun Guo
2022 GD
Fan Tai Sui

Printed Media

The project was born from the curiosity of Chinese astrology. It aims to interpret the Fan Tai Sui (Offending the god of Tai Sui) from a modern perspective, escaping from the cultural imposition while inheriting its historical contents. The stylish visual language here becomes the main tool of communicating ancient traditions under the contemporary global context.

Muhaddisa Ali
2024 GD
Mapping Memory

Printed Media

Collage of nostalgic elements from my childhood, specifically focused on the city of Karachi, Pakistan, where my grandparents lived.

Nishtha Nanda
2023 GD
An Empowered Timeline

Publication

I created a zine which travels through time going through various generations and art styles to reflect that. I focused on the roots behind the feminist centric work in my art and how the role of the women in my life cultivated that.

Emma E Noel
2022 GD
Two Designer Time Line

Printed Media

In celebration of the history of graphic design, this accordion book timeline playfully explores the lives and works of influential graphic designers Chip Kidd and David Carson. Color coded, each designer is assigned a defining color, with historical context running between. This book can be flipped open and read page by page as a traditional book, or can be expanded to be read as one continuous timeline.

Jessica Perkins
2023 GD
After Judd

Hand-Dyed Fabric Installation

This work is a soft sculpture installation of 5 cubes measuring approximately 6 × 27 × 24, satirizing Donald Judd's Untitled (1969/1982). In contrast to Judd's modernist, mind-over-matter approach, these are hand sewn and hand dyed fabric constructions that can be taken from the wall and used in the home.

Jessica Perkins
2023 GD
Setting Type

Printed Media

A collection of compositions utilizing influential texts from four different famous type designers: Beatrice Warde, Phil Baines, Bradbury Thompson, and Jan Tschichold. Each set is designed to reflect that designer’s philosophy, comes inside a corresponding envelope.

Jessica Perkins
2023 GD
A Place to Call Home

Publication

A small scale book consisting of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Ted Talk ‘The Dangers of a Single Story,’ an excerpt of J. R. R. Tolkien’s ‘The Hobbit,‘ and selected poems collected under the theme of Home. This book was set in GT Alpina by Reto Moser, and laser printed on grey construction paper.

Erin Roman
2022 GD
Twombly Posts

Printed Media

This is a poster series I made about typographer and RISD alumna, Carol Twombly. The design of the poster reminds me of the theme of portals because the type was designed to feels like it's transcending through space. I did this to reference how her type design has passed the test of time (so far) and continues to impact the world.

Eleanor Ryan
2023 GD
“Doorways” 10/4/2021

Printed Media

This interactive poster emerged as a representation of a collection of items, all starting from a green, vintage toy car. The exterior of the poster displays an abstracted exterior landscape. The doors in the houses and cars open to accordion books showing the interior part of the collection that I might find indoors in my home. The text is personally written as a reaction to the collection.

Alex Sarkissian
2022 GD
17 Hours

Printed Media

It takes 17 hours to drive from the Emerald City to the Golden State. Inspired by the colors from a move from Seattle, Washington to Los Angeles, CA, this piece included a 17-hour run of a contained JavaScript motion to print and back to digital.

Alex Sarkissian
2022 GD
The Dolly Parton Antibody Extravaganza

Printed Media

Dolly Parton donated $1 million to Vanderbilt University as they worked towards developing the Moderna COVID mRNA Vaccine - therefore Dolly Parton herself created the COVID Vaccine. Inspired by patterned posters of the 1970s, this concert will be a strictly vaccinated celebration of her hard work towards scientific research.

Bojun Tan
2022 GD
The Whatever

Printed Media

Subversive newspaper publication of entirely negative news in Boston. The Whatever examines major issues of urban life using data and news reports including light pollution, crime, depression, the pandemic and a hotel taking overtime to be built upon an awful old one.

Iris Xie
2023 GD
Ode

Printed Media, Video

Ode is an artists book and game inspired by family photographs and aims to memorialize the past. In an attempt to travel back in time, objects from the photographs are made into miniature sculptures and one plays the game through finding and matching object to picture.

Rain Ruihua Yang
2022 GD + INTAR
The Interview: “Rendering and Design” 2021

Publication

Rendering and Design: Print and typeset of an interview conducted with a professional architectural render artists about the art of 3D modeling, the influence of techonolgy on architecture, and his professional practice and story.

Sae Lin Yang
2023 GD
Movement Of Moments

Printed Media, Video

Life is a series of interconnected moments. We are always looking back, probing the present, and predicting the future. This portal will bring back memories that have been buried in our minds, allowing us to look back and reorganize our lives.

Chaeeun (Carrie) An
2023 GD
Biomimicry Alphabet

Printed Media

Biomimicry Alphabet is a poster inspired by microscopic images from the Nature Lab.

Sharlene Deng
2023 GD
Groovy Car Animation

Video

Created for Ed Brown‘s Digital 3D Form Making workshop, I aimed to create a surreal animated car gif in a desert landscape. Experimenting with color, sound and motion.

Sharlene Deng
2023 GD
Surreal Landscape Render

Printed Media

Surreal room render experimenting with materiality in Cinema 4D. Created for Ed Brown‘s Digital 3D Form Making workshop.

Monet Fukawa
2023 GD
Breeding Shapes Alphabet

Printed Media

The alphabet was made from 24 vector shapes inspired by microscopic images at the RISD Nature Lab.

Lian Fumerton-Liu
2023 GD MFA
Orange Peel Glyphs

Printed Media

An incubator for programmatic thinking in Kelsey Elder’s Variability class. “Prototype a program which can create glyphs and/or write a visual language.” The result: a visual system and instructions for making your own orange peel glyphs, dependent on variable factors.

Mizuki Hanada
2023 GD
Festival Shinkai

Video

A kinetic poster made to promote a Japanese music festival happening in the depths of the ocean of Suruga Bay.

E Joon (Ellie) Han
2022 GD
Send your heart

Printed Media

As technology has advanced, people have become more accustomed to texting each other. My work has been also done by using a computer, which is adobe illustrator and photosho. However, added my touch to it by drawing a tiger. How about writing a handwritten letter to a person you miss? Sometimes some analog sensibility is must needed in a relationship.

Joyce Ho
2024 GD
Poetics of Interruption

Website

With every story told comes with stories untold. What if a narrative is constantly interrupted in prevention of suturing the audience into a linear mode of thinking? Generating texts from first person narratives by the fiction character Genly Ai in Ursula K. Le Guin’s The Left Hand of Darkness, the reading site attempts to break into the ‘variances’ of how a story can be comprehended.

Jin Kim
2024 GD
The Garden Party

Printed Media

This poster was created when the COVID-19 pandemic took the world into chaos. “The Garden Party” aims to create an event that encourages residents to see the community in a vibrant future post-pandemic.

Kyoung Hoon Kim
2023 GD
Everytime We Deal With Enemy, We Create Two More

Video

I am a person who is very enthusiastic toward video games, where I have been inspired by it to create this work. In those worlds, when you deal with an enemy, two or more gets to you to grab a chance to win, where you have to be very calculative to win the game. This kinetic typography is a portal to my experience of those games.

Ethan Larkin
2023 GD
Generative Alphabets

Printed Media

Xubai Li
2021 GD
Additiven Type

Video

Human-Aided Manufacture (HAM) is a twist of the normal Computer-Aided Manufacture (CAM) process. In this Additive Type, the human actions are following a strict coordinate system, just like how computers following its order. The project consists of a documentation video, an instruction manual for future replication, and several italic font experiments.

Louis Rakovich
2022 GD
Breathing Exercise

Website

An interactive generative design experience that allows the user to guide a responsive, organically-moving wormhole. The result is calming yet slightly unnerving. Move your mouse around the screen in small or large, slow or fast motions, and see what happens.

Varun Mehta
2022 GD + ID
Avantika Velho
2022 ID
Avani

Publication

This is an urban systems design project proposing an interconnected system of multilevel stability, which would be implemented into coastal cities in our near future. Using a public parking garage as a case study of the greater changes that would occur in this proposal, we outline the ways our phased approach would benefit natural ecologies, human social systems, and basic infrastructure in the city. Our works were inspired in large part by the way energy transfers in nature, such as with phenotypic plasticity in ant colonies or altruistic alarm calling among deer and monkeys.

Varun Mehta
2022 GD + ID
The Isolation Helm

3D Printed Installation, Printed Media

This helmet is an analysis of social isolation, a growing phenomenon within dense urban settings, and the way our usage of modern technology has exacerbated its rise. Crucially, it is not the technology that is inherently the problem; it is the context and manner of our usage.

Ruby Miller
2022 GD
Beach House

Video

Beach House is a 360 video featuring clips the James Bond film franchise. The virtual space includes scenes from the films that take place on the ocean or the shore. It is a spatialized supercut.

Jessica Perkins
2023 GD
One Warm Day

Printed Media, Video

One Warm Day is a poster for a theoretical concert featuring music artists Fleet Foxes, Fleetwood Mac, Amigo the Devil, and Orville Peck. These artists are united by their folk and country influences, so the accompanying animation was made by projecting a slow-moving composition onto moving water, and recording the resulting reflection. This allowed for really organic movement, creating a soft place for viewers to land and reinforcing the idea of one warm day (from Fleet Foxes‘ song Featherweight.)

Alex Sarkissian
2022 GD
How To Stay In Touch

Video

A video game teaching anyone how to stay in touch with friends and family while avoiding a pandemic. Socially distance to avoid losing points.

Tomiris Shyngyssova
2022 GD
Edible Poster

Printed Media

The Poster mimics blotter acid (LSD) but instead of dwelling on the psychedelic implications of such an object, this edible poster aims to question the ways in which we conform to the collective ritual of consuming information - figuratively and literally in this case. I'll make a specific portal-theme design for this edible blotter poster, which can urge us to think of where we want to go on the ‘trip’ through this portal - to which preferred future? What does it look like? What is RISD like in that future?

Bojun Tan
2022 GD
She Is Free

Video

This gif represents my visual interpretation of the Beatles‘ song “She’s Leaving Home.” It envisions the sense of loss and freedom in a futuristic context.

Utkan Dora Öncül
2022 GD
How to Exercise in a Global Pandemic

Video

One may need to get a little inventive to exercise during the pandemic.

Tianqi Wang
2022 GD
What We See When We Read

Publication

This project is a redesign of the book What We See When We Read written by Peter Mendelsund. Experimenting with type, color, and composition, this book reimagines the reading experience, letting the typography express the contents.

Hope Wisor
2023 GD
Podface

Printed Media

Podface is a modular alphabet developed in Mukul Chakravarti’s Type II class. The system started from geometric plants forms that developed into a spherical typeface. Podface has a retrofuturistic look with a space-age feel.

Catherine Wu (Qing Yi)
2023 GD
Queer Temple Fair

Printed Media

Queer Temple Fair is an imaginary event branded to celebrate the legalization of same sex marriage in Taiwan. This Asian interpretation challenges the western customs of celebrating equality. Asia’s own efforts in fighting for the right to love should be honored in it's own unique way, thus a Temple Fair.

Iris Xie
2023 GD
Predestination

Printed Media

Predestination is the divine foreordaining of all that will happen. Your destiny is out of your hands, we all follow arbitrary signs from the universe along the confusing paths of life to try and make sense of it all. This is futile.

Rain Ruihua Yang
2022 GD + INTAR
Knoll Workplace Research Library Poster Series

Printed Media

KWRL: A system of posters created from 3D modeling and Renders, to invoke a visual language of research and innovation.

Nicole Yee
2022 ID
Frida Haggstrom
Exchange GD
Eva Yao
2021 ID + SC
Museum of Future Senses

Gallery Installation

This work was made in Agi Haines’ Prototyping Bodies and Anastasiia Raina's Design in the Posthuman Age courses. In this proposed future, the ozone layer has been completely destroyed. To survive, people have relocated to live in underground caves. Now they need to navigate the world with a heightened sense of touch, since all of their other senses have been muddled.

Nina Jun Yuchi
2021 GD
Community in Bloom

Website, Printed Media, Quilted Paper Installation

Community in Bloom is a workshop organized and hosted by Stephanie Wu and Nina Jun Yuchi in response and critique to the design industry and its relationship with politics. Design is not an isolated process but it’s often viewed as such. Acknowledging the labor and love that is required from all of our peers, we hope to impart the participants with a more holistic view of what design and community can be. This workshop invites young emerging/student designers but is open to all cultural workers.

Shani Abass
2021 GD
Modern Medicine

Video

Modern Medicine' is a series of brand collateral for both Knoll's Workplace Research Library and their whitepaper ‘Modern Medicine,’ which discusses novel approaches to healthcare and clinical environments. The collection includes a dynamic logo, a series of icons, showroom mockups, and an app containing interactive infographics.

Malvika Agarwal
2022 GD
Fluent

Publication

The magazine aims to explore cultural hybridity through the experiences of artists with immigrant backgrounds. Its intent is to capture inclusive Design Thinking that is directly influenced by navigating two or more cultures. It looks at how cultural intermingling creates subsets of mainstream culture, and how these subsets might replace the ones that hold position now in the future.

Bojun Tan
2022 GD
Looking At You

Printed Media

Set of two posters for an opera. The poster engages the topic of surveillance by personifying the iconic surveillance cams as subjects looking at the viewer.

Siwu Ding (Annie)
2023 ILLU + GD
How To Be A Good Egg
03/18/2021

Publication

A dictionary that explores the nuances of the Chinese language and the humor of translations.

Siwu Ding (Annie)
2023 ILLU + GD
Made In China
04/17/2021

Mixed Media

A branding project that recreates the connotation of the phrase “made in China.” It is a project that speaks to my own cultural identity as a Chinese international student in the US.

Utkan Dora Öncül
2022 GD
More, More & More Chocolate

Publication

This publication is a reaction to the absurd scale of American supermarkets and a reflection upon the ecstatic yet loud atmosphere one gets while walking in supermarket. Supermarket Magazine criticizes the idea of excess by fully embodying it.

Utkan Dora Öncül
2022 GD More, More & More Chocolate

Printed Model Installation, Video

This publication is a reaction to the absurd scale of American supermarkets and a reflection upon the ecstatic yet loud atmosphere one gets while walking in supermarket. Supermarket Magazine criticizes the idea of excess by fully embodying it.

Xiomara España
2020 GD
Latinalore 2019

Publication

Latinalore is a zine that delves into my experience as a Latina growing up in Los Angeles. My work is a culmination of tools that I wish had existed to guide me through my early teen years when I was most vulnerable and starting to discover my Latinahood. There aren’t too many Latina designers, artists, or even famous figures in the mainstream so the works I make serve as a Latinx life raft if you will, a supplementary source.

Patrick Farrell
2024 GD
Emory Douglas: Black Panther Graphics (Landmark Poster)

Printed Media

A poster on the work and career of Emory Douglas (Landmark Poster project for History of Graphic Design), particularly his work designing for the Black Panther Party. The poster catalogs Douglas‘ monumental work for the Black Panthers and its tremendous effect on both political design and American politics in general.

Adam Fein
2022 GD MFA
Politics of Non-Representation, 5/2021

Printed Media

The Politics of Non-Representation is a two-sided broadsheet poster that imagines blank spaces within graphic design as—not empty but—vitally alive portals through which marginalized persons can disrupt, annotate, or trouble dominant logics. The work includes an essay contrasting postcolonial thinker Gayatri Spivak, critical designer Jan Van Toorn, and Modernist designers. And the poster explores two visual ways of marking blank-ness: the intentionally blank page, refigured as a space reserved for future marginal speech; and the anti-collage, a layered dis-assemblage of existing visual material that evokes absence.

Adam Fein
2022 GD MFA
Times Neutral Roman

Video

Times Neutral Roman (TNR) is an experiment in refusing gendered language. Whenever a word or adjective phrase that references a particular sex or social gender is written, the typeface will automatically substitutes an unspecified marker (an X’d rectangle). The marker is a small gap in language—a portal—that makes the writer aware of the use of gendered language, which may be composed instinctively, without reflective deliberation.

Forough Abadian
2022 GD
The Afghanistan's Refugee Crisis

Printed Shipping Label Installation

It is estimated that a half-million Afghans may seek to leave their country by the end of 2021. Nations have responded differently to the call for help, from a conservative stance to more welcoming ones. The luggage tag shows the journey of Afghans to permanent or temporary resettlements while many are still waiting for an escape route behind closed borders.

Monet Fukawa
2023 GD
Time to go choke some turtles!

Video

A video that shows the dangers of releasing balloons into the sky.

Ingrid Gomez
2022 GD
Pain and Pride

Printed Media

This book discusses the topic of racial injustice in America, specifically against Latinos, as well as questioning what it means to be Latino. This piece navigates the duality of both my American and Latin American culture, causing both pain and pride. Each side represents itself in its own way, while still working together to tell a unified story.

Anmol Govinda Rao
2023 GD
A Journey

Video

This project visualizes a journey - a journey of growth and understanding, of perspective over one's life, of regaining trust and starting a new day. Experiences, molded by colors, transitioning between states. ’A Journey‘ will hopefully be a reminder that regardless of how deep the void is, inner strength can, and will one day get us out of it. Keep fighting against the harsh winds. Keep climbing the endless and overbearing walls. Keep rising above the mountain ranges and realize this — no dark spot can ever be significant enough to throw darkness over day.

Zengqi Guo
2022 GD
What Is It Like to Be a Fiber

Acrylic Plastic, Steel Rod Installation

I chose a piece of paper as the object of observation. After rational and emotional dissection, deconstruction and reorganization. I reduced my observations to an accordion book that should have been made out of paper. When you are interacting with this book, you are experiencing what is it like to be a fiber and how does it feel like to be torn apart.

Anita Huang
2023 GD
“Robocalypse” 2021

Printed Media

A typography-based printed poster incorporating multiple voices and layers that also functions as a book sleeve. The modular type is created upon on the concept of multiplicity by chimamanda ngozi adichie in the danger of a single story

Samaaya Jayamaha
2022 GD
Transition as Currency, November 2020

Publication

Created in collaboration with Gregory Shark, advised by Abraham Adams. Collection of writing, photos and illustrations: stories of ambition, change, growing up poor, overcoming, generosity and gratitude.

Samaaya Jayamaha
2022 GD
Rickytick

Jingyu Feng
2023 GD + Print
Jing‘an Temple

Publication

This is a book that attributed to Jing’an Temple in Shanghai. It is a translation of the personal relationship with this temple, one that is intimate yet physically unreachable.

Yu Jung Jung
2023 GD
Hidden Stories Behind

Printed Media

I was recently interested in photo journalism which has controversial photos. It was interesting to see different opinions based on people's cultural background and circumstances. This project has a top layer that hides the hidden stories which can be often dismissed, and the inside poster reveals the real stories.

Qiwen Ju
2022 GD
Stop Asian Hate Typographic Poster

Printed Media, Video

This poster was created in the spring of 2021. Because of the emergence of COVID, the world is shrouded in negative emotions. The irresponsible words of politicians affect social networks, leading to more and more violent incidents, especially attacks against Asians. The original intention of this poster is not only to oppose the attacks on Asians but also to try to put together a society that has long been torn apart.

Mio Kosaka
2023 GD
Woman in Japan

Mixed Media Installation

“Woman in Japan” is an installation piece made of small gimmicks, objects and displays that picture how I see Japan as a Japanese woman, and how Japan sees me as a woman. Viewers are able to interact with the piece.

Nick Larson
2022 GD MFA
admanadmanadmanadmanadmanadmanadman

Printed Media

A large self portrait composed of a grid of QR codes leading to google searches for my targeted ad interests.

Alejandro Molestina
2022 GD
Desire Lines, Zine, 5/01/2021

Printed Media

Zine exploring Queer & Feminist Theory as it relates to Design.

Muhaddisa Ali
2024 GD
Bol Billboard Design

Printed Media

this piece is a design for a billboard meant to encourage women in Pakistan to speak up for themselves.

Ethan Kiyoshi Murakami
2021 GD
Crossing Lines, Constructing Home (2019)

Printed Media

An imagined identity for the Harvard Art Museum‘s show, Crossing Lines, Constructing Home: Displacement and Belonging in Contemporary Art, which ran from September 6, 2019 to January 5, 2020.

Ethan Kiyoshi Murakami
2021 GD
I Found Myself in a __________ (2021)

Video, Printed Media

The culmination of my Degree Project, I Found Myself in a __________ explores the coded structures of social spaces, using the sites of the grocery store and the hardware stores as sites of inquiry. Within my work, these sites are used as ways to reflect on different aspects of my identity, the feelings of being “othered”, and my desires to belong.

Nishtha Nanda
2023 GD
Speak english only

Video

It‘s a typographic animation focusing on linguistic profiling in the US and how the failure to recognize a foreign accent is a societal flaw. I worked with the idea of distortions and fluidity to convey this process of blurred translations.

Catherine Park
2021 ID+GD
The Reconciliation Between the All-American and the Asian-American

Printed Media

What does it mean to be an All-American when you’re a child of diaspora? What is our relationship with a culture that is supposedly ours? How do we reconcile the difference between what America tells us we should be vs.our own internal cultural conflict?

Varun Mehta
2022 GD + ID
Don't Tell Me How To Say My Name

Video

This project is centered around the experience of being an Indian-American immigrant, specifically living in the middle ground between those two separate cultures. To Americans, I am the Indian and to Indians, due to my accent, my mannerisms, my upbringing, I am the American. As such, I’ve faced friction from both these cultural halves throughout my life. Here, I explore the pronunciation of my name, Varun.

Shuixin Wang
2023 GD
Women‘s Plight, 10/27/2020

Printed Media

This series of posters share one theme—plights women around the world have met, including abuse, oppression, and even murder. I‘d like to show the injustice directly, pushing the audience to face these terrible situations and call for solutions and equal rights. The posters were designed for events posters in DS1.

Tianqi Wang
2022 GD
Attention: Water!

Printed Media

An infographic poster about the water scarcity problem

Madeline Warshaw
2022 GD
Voices Carry Interview Zine

Publication

I interviewed graphic designer Na Kim, who designs book covers and illustrates freelance. I asked her about her work ethics, and how she gets certain voices across and heard in her work. I designed the zine with playful colors as her work showcases just that, and annotated on the body copy to make the zine even more personable.

Hope Wisor
2023 GD
XX: Text Me When You Get Home, 04/21/21

Printed Media

Branding project for Mukul Chakravarthi’s Type II class. Created a fictional campaign based on the #TextMeWhenYouGetHome movement. Designed a typographic system that was applied to different forms: an event invitation, an event poster, stickers, name tags, etc.

Amanda Yang
2020 GD
Nothing Outside of the Text

Printed Media

Nothing Outside of the Text is a collection of writing and design projects that aims to inspire reflection upon how language shapes our inherent biases.

Yasemin Sarihan
2023 GD
“Ethical” Leaking

Publication

A collection of images taken of my neighbors over quarantine, questioning the “ethics” of surveillance.

Nina Jun Yuchi
2021 GD
Untitled

Printed Media

Fans are commonly used to simply fan off heat but also act as props especially in East Asian performances, sometimes as extensions of one’s arm in a dance or a mask to obscure one‘s identity. In reflecting upon these acts, I used the fan as a form of publication, printing lines from Hyejin Shim's article “questions on (the limits & effects of) (asian american) allyship” on each fold of the fan.

Gabriel Abascal
2020 GD
I And Love And You

Publication

I And Love And You is a book I made as the culmination of my degree project in May of 2020.

Alexis Elaine Reid
2021 GD
Physical Poster Series

Printed Media

These poster have been created in an analog way and then digitally manipulated.

Wendy Chao
2022 GD
Knoll Research Library Concept Posters + Kit

Printed Media

Posters and Design Kit for the Knoll Workplace Research Library. Icons and style reflect the content and research of Knoll’s essay “10 Ergonomic Tips For A Healthier Workspace”

Lydia Chodosh
2024 GD MFA
i, and

Printed Media

Created in Fall 2021 during the first year of grad study, this large format square print explores the elemental qualities of typography, how meaning diverges and gets redacted through repetition.

Iris Cho
2023 GD
Off the Page, 12/01/2020

Blank CD Installation

Creating the letterform ‘P’ off the page and into the real 3-dimensional world. I reused empty disks to create the letter in a tech way.The ‘P’ although a 3D sculpture was created using materials that are normally used to create productions on screen.

Leslie Berumen Flores
2024 GD
Type Around Us: Glow

Printed Media

Pictures of glowing and neon type found around Providence were collaged onto a poster, creating a composition that creates the illusion of having walked through a portal into the world of typography.

Sharlene Deng
2023 GD
Doja Cat Poster

Printed Media

Created for Type 3, this is a fictional black and white event poster for Doja Cat. Experimenting with typographic form, composition and movement.

Gabriel Drozdov
2024 GD MFA
“Event”, 10/19/2021

Experiential Work Installation

“Event” is the initiation of (or portal into) an event—the spectator, reading this prompt, brings the event into existence. The spectator’s subjective experience gives the event meaning, shaped by the prompts’ coexistence as both unique and reproduced objects.

Anmol Govinda Rao
2023 GD
Biodiversity Infographic

Printed Media

This infographic focuses on statistical data about global diversity with additional information gathered from various diversity databases, highlighting how little we know about life on Earth and how much diversity has been lost.

Kira Held
2024 GD
Confetti

Printed Media

Compositions inspired by ink and confetti

Christine Koh
2021 GD
“Back to Analog”, 4/14/21

Printed Media

An interview with Hiromu Oka, a motion graphic designer based in Tokyo, talking about the importance of working analog (RISO) to inform his digital processes. The final interview is translated into a 4 page newspaper publication. This relates to the theme of portals because it is connecting the ways in which conversations are shared remotely in different parts of the world, and rich, valuable insight is soaked in, opening the possibilities of approaching design differently.

Nathaniel Ladd Krohn
2023 GD
Orange Fences

Polymer Steel Plate Etching Installation

The tension and relationship between two orange fences sitting in tandem. Confrontation illustrated on even ground. Polymer steel plate etching.

Ethan Larkin
2023 GD
Motion Poster

Bryson Lee
2021 GD
Garden Labyrinth

Printed Media

This poster is an archive of flower breeds. With vine-like framework and windows that showcase flowers as statues, this poster is meant to imitate a garden hedge maze.

Hwan Lee
2023 GD
Untitled

Printed Media

A collection of images having to do with grids found in both natural & manmade forms.

Hyelim Rose Lee
2024 GD
W.E.B. Du Bois Infographics Poster

Printed Media

This poster is dedicated to W.E.B. Du Bois’s data visualization infographics.

Sun Ho Lee
2023 GD
Sparkle

Printed Media

Visual experimentation of the word “sparkle.”

Youjin Lim (Amy)
2023 GD
NY subway

Printed Media

A poster that describes the NY Subway Map with joyfulness by freely placing subway lines over each other.

Manmeet Sodhi
2021 GD
A Planted Seed

Publication

A conversation about code and art between father and son.

Ruby Miller
2022 GD
Scaffolding 4: Useless Organs

Publication

Useless Organs is the 4th edition of the Scaffolding Journal by Ruby Miller and Idene A.

Ruby Miller
2022 GD
Night Vision Diptych

Printed Media

Pair of 4x6 inch prints on photo paper.

Muhaddisa Ali
2024 GD
Compositional Studies

Printed Media

Compositional Collages made from scans of sketches

Nick Larson
2022 GD MFA
Idi-O-Matic

Website

Website that generates absurd combinations of english language idiomatic expressions.

Emma E Noel
2022 GD
What’s RISD Wearing?

Publication

What’s RISD Wearing? is a compilation zine of observed 2021 RISD student fashion sense. The zine also serves as an accompanying tool to the article I wrote, featured in The Glob RISD Newspaper (2021). This limited edition zine was printed on the risograph and spiral bound with a clear coil. The zine features a fold out riso copy of the newspaper article at the back.

Erin Isla Roman
2022 GD
Sept-Oct 2021

Printed Media

To kick off the year, DSIII students created posters (based on the idea of taxonomy) that were transformed into public installation pieces. This work is particularly meaningful to me because it involves the community, and not just because of the interactive collage aspect. From ordering custom fluorescent chalk markers from Micheal B. at the RISD Store to talking to Peter at the 3D store about cut orders for acrylic sheets to learning how to vinyl cut from Ed and John at the type shop, this piece would not have been possible without the help of the RISD community.

Adèle Roncey
2022 GD
Créativité With Julia Parris

Publication

Spread based on an interview with photographer, art director, and founder of Analog is Heavy, Julia Parris. The interview touches base on creativity and the practice of making.

Adèle Roncey
2022 GD
Words in Inks, 05/2021

Publication

Artist book exploring Language and text emphasizing texture and patterns through different printing techniques. Language takes form with poetry and found cited text adding multiple layers of voice. Cotton and black denim fiber based handmade paper and several printing processes including inkjet, screen print, letterpress and sewing.

Eleanor Ryan
2023 GD
Nook

Alex Sarkissian
2022 GD
Reframing the Poster: The Poster

Printed Media

Inspired by a class the designer has not been able to reframe his schedule to fit.

Avery Shaw
2022 GD
Driving In Providence

Printed Media

Driving In Providence is a letter-pressed poster series. Using wooden type and a two large linoleum cuts, the poster depicts the frustration and rage of a Providence driver. Each line of type is like a brick in the face. Made on a Vandercook letterpress for repetition and consistency, each one includes a unique ink treatment, done by a hand-roller prior to each print.

Jieun Song (MJ)
2023 GD
My Collection

Publication

This collection of images captures a range of natural items that people collect, study, or worship. It explores parallels between Romantic and Transcendental appreciation for nature and those of more institutional religious rituals. The cold epistemology of modern scientific viewpoints adds extra dimension to the collection, as these objects exist at intersections between spirituality and science, pulling us both toward nature and separating us from it.

Utkan Dora Öncül
2022 GD
Spark Newsletter

Publication

A monthly newsletter of three interviews with creatives. Alternatively, a sweet resource for design students. Flip and use as a poster after reading.

Utkan Dora Öncül
2022 GD
Biophilic Prints

Silkscreen Printed Media

A set of 5 layer silkscreen prints diving into the humans relationship with nature with use of text annotation and photographic symbolism.

Tianqi Wang
2022 GD
Insomnia Diary

Publication

A double-sided illustration zine about the insomnia experience. Printed in riso.

Iris Xie
2023 GD
Waking Up

Printed Media

This digital souvenir immerses you in how it feels to wake up in the morning as someone who is not a morning person. Zoom in for jokes!

Rain Ruihua Yang
2022 GD + INTAR
The “Traveling Grooves” Zine

Publication

Traveling Grooves: An experimental Zine created and fabricated from a private collection of vinyl and a dozen set of typefaces.

Jeff Yao
2022 GD
Form in Motion

Video

A short, upbeat motion piece with animated cylinders made of typography. For a fictional show about Swiss design.

Jeff Yao
2022 GD
Still Life and Self Portrait

Printed Media

A set of two darkroom prints of food arrangements, one at the Met and one at Chengdu Taste, a local Chinese restaurant.

Nina Jun Yuchi
2021 GD
Happy Birthday!

Publication

Happy birthday! This colorful zine goes through the narrative of an absurd dream, folding out into a 10.5"x16.5" poster.

Erica Yun
2023 GD
“Uglies” Poster Series

Printed Media

The series depicts the dystopian society in the book “Uglies” in which individuals’ body imagery is distorted and transformed by the forced surgeries of the government. The work represents the loss of individuality and freedom, incorporating the photos of disassembled doll bodies.