Speculation—work envisioning new futures (beautiful, terrible, everything in between), informed by the past and present.

resize

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.