Activation—work highlighting the range of voices that speak to individual experiences, identities, cultures, and the role of activism.

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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.