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Social Media Asset: The Collector's Journey
This GIF was made as a social media asset to promote an event for the RISD Museum. More information on my design process and other printed applications coming shortly.
Stickers: Stop?
Exploring the nearly universal language of stop signs, these reflective vinyl stickers challenge and expand visual conventions. Placed throughout Providence, they invite a multitude of interpretations and interactions, encouraging viewers to reconsider familiar symbols in new ways.
Process
Exhibition Graphics: Listen!
I had a blast designing graphics for the “Listen!” Exhibition during my internship at the RISD Museum this summer. Curated by the RISD Art Circle, I had the opportunity to bring a youthful attitude to the gallery space, emphasizing accessibility and legibility. The show is up the show in the Buonanno & Tsiaras Galleries, on view until January 2025!
Process
Quilt “Tu me manques”
(Work in progress)This quilt speaks to my complicated relationship with France (where I grew up) and my queerness. I feel a growing distance between myself and French culture. Throughout my adolescence, I rejected the francophone world for being a rigid place where I couldn’t be myself. I gradually stopped surrounding myself with French speakers, and eventually, I moved away.
“Tu me manques” in French or, as printed in small print on the white fabric, “I miss you” is stated as the message the quilt shares. Maybe missing a person I used to be, an expectation, or the person I could be. The direct translation is “you are missing from me,” offering the additional meaning that there is part of me that is missing.
The type is drawn to resemble the cursive writing I would use in French, designed out of fabric squares and triangles. The grid printed on the squares is the rigid grid used in France for cursive writing.
It was important to me to have this message on a large quilt, an important work of labor to scale with the emotional weight of the sentiment. The quilt takes on a new role as an object to comfort and envelop, bringing some emotional consolation.
Process
Museum Publication: Manual 20
I worked on multiple spreads and layouts for “Manual,” the RISD Museum’s publication.
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Branding: The Makery
I developed an identity for “The Makery,” which temporarily transformed the RISD Museum’s common room into a maker space for visitors to engage with creative prompts. To ensure the room reflected the art in the galleries, I drew each letter of the logotype from the typography found in the Museum’s collection.
Credit and thanks to Hassan Askari for taking the photos of me!
Stop Motion: Recycle
Working with stop motion to create a lighthearted and humorous animation intended to encourage people to better sort their recycling. This video uses food containers often wrongly disposed of on RISD’s campus.
Exhibition Graphics and projection: Pineapple to Pañuelo
Developing the graphic design and an accompanying projection of images for this exhibition of 19th-century Filipino textiles intricately made from pineapple leaf fibers.
I reached out to Clara Cayosa, a MFA graphic design student at RISD who is designing a typeface based on precolonial Filipino script to use for this exhibition. The title of the exhibition is both applied as vinyl and projected on the wall to ensure legibility while also having the projection fade out occasionally to avoid it reflecting into the glass casing in the space.