1 SORT LATER

Production/Exhibition Design
2023

Design is a form of sorting. The designer takes disparate elements and strings them together; remixed and recombined. Charged with the unending task of forging new connections, we have tediously aligned type to page, gathered content for books, and compiled assets for websites. While discursive, sorting becomes a way to retain control. It implies a tangible end to the process. So often, each design decision leads to some envisioned ‘end.’ Sort Later is about letting go of ideas of finality and instead celebrating the work in progress, the liminal, and the unanswered. [From the Curatorial Statement]

Worked on the exhibition design and production for the RISD Graphic Design 2023 senior show.

-> Website

Credits
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Web Design:

Curatorial Statement:
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Production:

Sharlene Deng, Matthew Cuschieri Mizuki Hanada, Anita Huang, Matthew Cuschieri, Emma Noel, Henry Spuria, Iris Xie

Sharlene Deng, Mio Kosaka, Monet Fukawa, Truman Lesak, Sofia Santana, Yasemin Sarıhan
Max Biedler, Jingyu Feng, Truman Lesak, Valia Liu, Wayne Luan
Truman Lesak, Henry Spuria, Emma Noel, Iris Xie

Sharlene Deng, Mio Kosaka, Monet Fukawa,
Mizuki Hanada, Anmol Govinda Rao, Ashley Yae

Max Biedler, Iris Cho, Matthew Cuschieri, Sharlene Deng, Mio Kosaka, Monet Fukawa, Mizuki Hanada, Anmol Govinda Rao, Ashley Yae, Jingyu Feng, Annita Huang, Wayne Luan, Emma Noel, Nishta Nanda, Nathaniel Krohn, Amy Lim, Maxton O’Connor, Jessica Perkins, Alex Zhu, Karen Zhou, Iris Xie, Henry Spuria, Yasemin Sarhan

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2 HACKATHON⁺

Event Art Direction
2020

Hackathon+ was a 24 hour long event with six local artists/ designers to reuse and design with Nike’s trash and material residue. The event wasinspired by Nike’s “Move to Zero” campaign and the “Space Hippie” sneakers, which were also created using excess material in their inventory. The campaign and the event was designed to promote sustainability as
a lifestyle and a means of creativity and collaborative production. The space was also designed using the material from Nike’s warehouse in Istanbul, as well as excess material sourced from local studios, production warehouses. Throughout the day, artists produced various pieces of design work both individually and collaboratively.

Credits
Creative Director: Furkan Temir
Project Manager: Kardelen Aslan
Art director: Yasemin Sarıhan
Videographer: Elif Gönen
Photography: Abdullah Yazıç
Set Design: Alles Gut Ist
Artists: Alican Okan, Begüm Aydın,
Burak Koçak, Ilgın Uçar, Selver Yıldırım,
Tamer Nakışçı, Rafi Batu

︎︎︎ Watch the video.

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3 MILLER KNOLL WRL

Branding
2022

This branding project for MillerKnoll Workplace Research Library was inspired by elements of previous Herman Miller and Knoll workplace designs and the merging of the two companies. Taking ideas of collaboration, open work spaces, spatial dynamism and modularity from both Knoll’s Antenna workplace designs as well as Robert Propst’s “Action Office,” designed with Herman Miller, this brand identity aims to highlight how people and furniture work together in a
shared space.

“Color, material and finish are used for articulation of different functions, expression of personality and comfort.” (Antenna Systems)

Taking a lot of inspiration from this quote alone,
the brand identity highlights the history of both brands’ office designs by the simple use of red in the guidelines. The modular form of the logo as well as the use of white space acts as a window into the workplace while showcasing the multifunctionality of simple modular elements. The logo and all of the assets in this brand identity is structured around the idea of dynamic change and restruction of space that both brands have achieved in their
workspace designs.

This project was designed for Design Studio 4 in Rhode Island School of Design.

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4 RAVE AS MEDIUM

Immersive Experience
2022

This immersive experience was made for Interdiscplinary Critique to complete my concentration in Computation, Culture and Technology. I wanted to create an interactive spacethat completely activated with participation.The space had two strobes reacting to th bpm of the song as well a live projection responding to the participants’ movement.

Interdisciplinary Critique with Minkyoung Kim, in Rhode Island School of Design

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5 NOCTURNE

Poster Design / Branding
2021

Poster and identity design for the hypothetical 2021 RISD Artist Ball theme, Nocturne. The word nocturne makes me think of mystery and darkness as well as elegance and dismal beauty. A big influence for the design was Alva Noto’s music, specifically HYbr:ID oval p-dance. With these keywords in mind I designed this custom type for the title, setting the tone for the rest of the design.

Type design process / sketch for promotional video.

Ticket design.

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6 LANGUAGE OF THE MASTER

Book/ Web Design
2021

Typeset Paul Kingsnorth’s Language of the Master essay both in printed and digital form.

With the website design, the book was transformed into a more dynamic and interactive version of itself. The pixelated background changed as the mouse was moved around, revealing and hiding different parts of the essay.

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7 INTERVIEW

Publication
2022

Pubilcation design for an interview with the founders of Istanbul based brand Désolé, Emilie and Oliver Lassen.

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8 VOODOO RHYTHM

Poster Series/ Installation
2021

A collection of posters, typographic sketches and
a short video exploring the context of Voodoo Rhythm in rave culture. Inspired by multiple old news articles from late 80s criticizing nightlife culture and techno music I wanted to create an environment where the colorful, loud world of rave could be explored in contrast to disapproving views.

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9 FORM GENERATOR

Interactive Installation
2021

Form Generator is a system intended to create textures/ forms generated by human movement.
The item depends on the participant’s arm movement to generate texture by dragging their own threshold image across the screen. As the video is being dragged around it overlaps and blends with traces
of the same video feed, creating a complex
texture/composition.

*Made using p5.js.

Dancing demonstration using the Form Generator.