Retrospection—work reflecting back on the myriad of change, movements, and events from the past three years.

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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.