The Archive is a collection of projects completed through coursework and personal explorations at the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD).
This portfolio spans a range of creative disciplines, including print publications, video work, creative writing, and brand design.
Layout designs for Brown Political Review, a student-run magazine that aims to educate a diverse public on current political, social, and economic issues.
As the Design Director for Brown Political Review, I led a team of designers to select typefaces, create infographics, and creatively layout the magazine. As a collaborative team, both the Design Directors and Graphic Designers conceived the magazine’s layout, aesthetic, and design.
View these and other issues here.
Design Direction
Editorial Design
Covers of Brown Political Review (BPR); Fall 2021 - Spring 2023
'You Can't Just Reform Colonialism', BPR Fall 2022 Issue 1; illustrations by Lucia Li
'Tanks But No Tanks', BPR Spring 2023 Issue 1; illustrations by Kennice Pan
'Pipelines of Mistrust', BPR Fall 2021 Issue 2; illustrations by Rosie Dinsmore
Interview spreads for Rabbit Holes issue, BPR Fall 2021 Issue 2; illustrations by Evelyn Tan
Table of Contents, BPR Fall 2021 Issue 1; illustrations by Kelly Wu
'Truth's Foundations', BPR Spring 2023 Issue 1; illustrations by Ayca Tuzer
Spreads for the Spring 2023 Issue 1 Special Feature: Sex
Spreads for the Fall 2021 Issue 2 Special Feature: Rabbit Holes; illustrations by Marlowe Pody
Spreads for the Fall 2021 Issue 2 Special Feature: Rabbit Holes; illustrations by Marlowe Pody
Lyric book showcasing the music of The Chicks, covering their discography from the 1998 album "Wide Open Spaces" to their latest release in 2020 "Gaslighter."
The title and song titles are presented in a Western-style font, French Clarendon by Wood Type Revival, accompanied by a softer serif font, Calson, for a comfortable reading experience. On pink paper, I printed images featuring The Chicks over the years, along with iconography representing both country music and their homestate of Texas.
Editorial Design
Select pages from The Chicks: Complete Lyrics
Select pages from The Chicks: Complete Lyrics
Select pages from The Chicks: Complete Lyrics
Select pages from The Chicks: Complete Lyrics
Select pages from The Chicks: Complete Lyrics
Select pages from The Chicks: Complete Lyrics
Select pages from The Chicks: Complete Lyrics
Select pages from The Chicks: Complete Lyrics
Select pages from The Chicks: Complete Lyrics
Select pages from The Chicks: Complete Lyrics
Select pages from The Chicks: Complete Lyrics
Select pages from The Chicks: Complete Lyrics
Select pages from The Chicks: Complete Lyrics
Art book design that features the photography of Gérard Uféras. Starting with 100 of Uféras’ photographs, I was tasked with editing them down and pairing them to form visually and thematically cohesive spreads.
Editorial Design
Select pages from Gérard Uféras: The Fabric of Dreams
Select pages from Gérard Uféras: The Fabric of Dreams
Select pages from Gérard Uféras: The Fabric of Dreams
Select pages from Gérard Uféras: The Fabric of Dreams
Select pages from Gérard Uféras: The Fabric of Dreams
Select pages from Gérard Uféras: The Fabric of Dreams
Select pages from Gérard Uféras: The Fabric of Dreams
Select pages from Gérard Uféras: The Fabric of Dreams
Select pages from Gérard Uféras: The Fabric of Dreams
Risograph-printed publication for my short story, “The Pool House”. In this story, a man acquires a collection of mannequins, stashing them away in the pool house to keep them from his wife and son.
Using light blue-tinted paper, resembling light reflecting in water, I printed monochrome text and images in one blue shade on the Riso printer. To match the imagery of the story, I collected a variety of photographs, ranging from contemporary photographers to vintage fashion ads.
Editorial Design
Writing
Select pages from The Pool House
Select pages from The Pool House
Select pages from The Pool House
Select pages from The Pool House
Select pages from The Pool House
Select pages from The Pool House
Select pages from The Pool House
Select pages from The Pool House
Select pages from The Pool House
Part of a collective publication to make work by gathering, inspired by Mindy Seu’s “On Gathering”.
In our publication, my partner and I curated an assortment of texts, art, and photos related to the communal aspect of food, including images from our shared meals with friends and family and incorporating quotes from articles like Louise O. Fresco’s “Why We Eat Together”and R.I.M. Dunbar’s study on the social functions of eating, “Breaking Bread”. We printed our spreads using the Riso machine, with red ink on purple paper.
Editorial Design
Cover for FEASTING, a gathering publication
Layout design for FEASTING
Layout design for FEASTING
Layout design for FEASTING, with endnotes
Cover and colophon for collective publication; A Gathering of Gatherings
Scrapbook-style visual essay titled “Family Tradition,” created with family photos, collected memorabilia, and my own “doodle” illustrations.
In this essay, I explore my family’s connection with country music. The main subject of my essay is my grandfather, “Pap”, a self-taught musician who has roots growing up in rural Pennsylvania. I created illustrations to capture his family’s love of music and country music influences.
Editorial Design
Illustration
Writing
Select pages from Family Tradition
Select pages from Family Tradition
Select pages from Family Tradition
Select pages from Family Tradition
Select pages from Family Tradition
Select pages from Family Tradition
Select pages from Family Tradition
Select pages from Family Tradition
Select pages from Family Tradition
Select pages from Family Tradition
Collection of short stories that I wrote in a fiction writing workshop at Brown University. The class was an exploration of very short fiction, which led me to write stories ranging from one or two pages to just a couple of sentences.
To cater to short form stories, I designed a physical book with spiral binding, encouraging readers to tear out and keep their favorite stories. Inspired by my professor’s elongated notebook, I fashioned the book to be of similar size and designed the cover to resemble a ping pong table.
The book’s interior design was kept minimal with a blue color scheme and a complementary serif and sans serif font pairing, inspired by my favorite poetry books.
Editorial Design
Writing
Cover and inside cover design of ping pong
Layout design for short stories 'Daylight,' 'Tired,' and 'Table Tennis'
Detail of cover design
Detail of cover design
Serif text typeface using RoboFont.
Clockwork draws inspiration from Nadsat, the slang used by teenage gang members in Anthony Burgess’ novel, A Clockwork Orange. The peculiarities of Clockwork, such as its short ascenders and square serifs, capture the patchwork nature of this odd language.
As part of a type design course, we were tasked with presenting our typefaces in a print type specimen book. I designed the cover, which was later embossed on black paper. The inside of the book was used to display our typefaces, featuring passages from the novel and playful typography compositions.
Type Design
Cover for Type Design specimen book; Richard Lipton course @ RISD; Fall 2022
Clockwork typeface
Spread from type specimen book
Spread from type specimen book
Spread from type specimen book
Opening passage from A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
Print publication for Ingrid Barrington’s “Sand in the Gears”, an essay that deals critically with how the technology and tools we use in our everyday lives impact climate change and capitalism.
To capture the author’s process of grinding down an iPhone, I slowly broke down the essay, creating space between the text blocks. I also incorporated Barrington’s original images from her Are.na channel as halftone images to mimic sand particles.
Later, I translated this print publication into a desktop web version. Check out the website prototype on Figma.
Editorial Design
Web
Die cut cover of Sand in the Gears; print publication of Ingrid Barrington's essay
Inside cover of Sand in the Gears
Select pages from Sand in the Gears
Select pages from Sand in the Gears
Select pages from Sand in the Gears
Back cover of Sand in the Gears
Website prototype of digital publication using Figma
Website prototype of digital publication using Figma