Olas, 2024
TYPEFACE DESIGN / Olas is designed to wave, echoing the ripples of a flag in motion. To achieve this movement, letters were composed on a grid made of straight vertical lines and waving horizontal lines. The final outcome of Olas (meaning waves in Spanish) is a bold, sans-serif display typeface that ripples across the page, paying homage to the waving flags of Chicago’s Humboldt Park. Posters and type specimens of Olas are on view at the Design Museum of Chicago through April 2025. Download Olas through Design Museum Chicago.
Tampering, 2024
EXPERIMENTAL PUBLICATION DESIGN / Tampering is a zine project that explores the publication’s formal potentiality for dually concealing and disseminating radical content. The visible outer layer of the zines is decorated with found language from commercial feminine care packaging, which centers themes of normalcy, safety and dependability. When unrolled, a competing publication is revealed, which compiles of content mined from feminist archives and health organizations about historical resistance to authoritarian power and contemporary advice for accessing reproductive care in precarious legal scenarios.
Band-Aid Solutions, 2024
EXPERIMENTAL PUBLICATION DESIGN / Inspired by Brian Eno and Peter Schmidt’s Oblique Strategies, Band-Aid Solutions is a set of questions and statements that intervene in the problem-solving process, printed on yellow adhesive bandages. The series of phrases aim to provoke discourse about healing wounds large and small, mining the symbolic meanings of the bandage as both a tool for concealing a problem as well as revealing it.
Foreword
PUBLICATION DESIGN / Students were tasked to create minibooks about our future design careers, using AI to generate all content. I employed an automated service to suggest which photos to clean up from my cluttered camera roll and used the first 50 trash-worthy photos as the images that would encapsulate my career, accompanied by effusive chatbot-generated captions. The book is titled Foreword, a homophone to forward that speaks to the section of a book upon which the author doesn’t exert control, the part that frames the author’s content with context. I aimed to bring a feeling of levity to the concept of the impossibility of understanding the important pieces of our career or broader culture while we’re experiencing it. To emphasize the “thrown away material” concept, I created the cover by manipulating and scanning the hole-punched, discarded remnants of the book’s test prints.
FAKE
POSTER DESIGN / As part of a poster workshop at in Basel, Switzerland, designers were prompted to make a large-format poster for an exhibition titled FAKE. Inspired by an image’s capacity to function as a fake object, my poster mimicked the ubiquitous form of a Swiss newsstand to encourage a viewer’s double take. Materials from the faux exhibition included a room dedicated to falsified media, so ‘fake news’ became a welcome associative echo of the poster’s visual message.