MON: THE HISTORY AND DESIGNS OF JAPANESE FAMILY EMBLEMS & CRESTS
A handmade zine about the history and designs of Japanese Mons (family crests).Printed using white RISO ink on black paper & laser on cream paper. Bound using a sewing machine with white thread.
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FLAMES ABLAZE
A matchbox publication exploring the ideas related to community in tangent to flames. Printed using four color RISO print with a vellum incasing. Accordion fold, glued to a match box.
Edition of 18.
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2024 Year of the Dragon
The 365 day tear-off calendar features artwork in the theme of the ‘Naga’ or dragon, by multitude of artists submitted through an open call. Commissioned by Far-Near, an artist run curated cultural book seris and collective, dedicated to uplift voices of artist of asian decent. Designed by Mizuki Hanada
Art Directed by Lulu Yao Gioiello
Cover art by Jade Thiraswas
Featured artists: Amethyst Davis, Ānan Im 林阿㬮, Aya Borucki, Carlos Mangubat, Chenxi Cao, Chris Hamamoto, Christina Welzer, Crylic Liu, Daniel Pravit Fethke, Diane Lac, Emily E Nam, Eunie Kim, Hannah Elijah, Helen Lin, Ho Wong, Hungry Oni, Irene Tang, Jade Thiraswas, Jason Lam, Jeffrey Jin, Jesse Ly, Jessica Wu, June Chan, Karen Thao La, Katy Cao, Lennie Hsiao, Luke Satoru, Mai-Han Nguyen, Mermaid, Michael Kam, Minako Ota, Minjee Hwang Kim, Nina Kuo, Noah Hrung, Priya Lad, Qizi Yu, Quyn Duong, Rachel Kim, Sayaka Maruyama and Tomihiro Kono, Shellie Zhang, Shina Peng, Sophia Callahan, Sumin Hwang and Mark Bunday, Tabitha Swanson, Teng Yung Han, Thahab Nabil, Theo Marielle, Theresa Nguyen, Thủy Tiên Phạm, Urara Muramatsu, Victoria Xu, Viktor Zeidler, Yilin Wong, Yufei Ma, Zixuan Zhao
SORT LATER
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]Designed and led the printed matter for SORT LATER, the RISD Graphic Design Senior Exhibition.
Credit: Max Beidler, Iris Cho, Matthew Cuschieri, Sharlene Deng, Jingyu Feng, Monet Fukawa, Anita Huang, Mio Kosaka, Nate Krohn, Truman Lesak, Amy Lim, Valia Liu, Wayne Luan, Nistha Nanda, Emma Noel, Maxton O’Connor, Jessica Perkins, Anmol Govinda Rao, Sofia Santana, Yasemin Sarihan, Henry Spuria, Iris Xie, Ashley Yae, Karen Zhou, Alex Zhu.
FESTIVAL SHINKAI
Festival Shinkai is a hypothetical music festival featuring Sakanaction, Frederic, King Gnu, Hachi, Good Morning America, Genie High, and Superfly, held in the depths of Suruga Bay in Japan. The word 深海 (Shinkai) directly translates as ‘the deep sea’. The black poster features the Japanese version of the poster while the white one is the English version. The kinetic poster transitions back in forth between the two posters.
ASTERISK VOLUME 01: AN INTERVIEW WITH MIO YOKOTA
A 4 page publication featuring an interview with Mio Yokota, a designer based in Tokyo, Japan. Mio has worked on various different projects and currently is a communication designer at IDEO Tokyo. The publication is done in both Japanese and English to remain true to the actual conversation that happened between myself and Mio. Printed by Newspaper Club on 12.5”x16” newsprint, single fold.
THE DESIGN IMAGINATION
A museum gallery guide style redesign of the web article The Design Imagination by Zoe Ryan.Double gate fold, saddle stitched.
UNTITLED
An illustration of a children’s toy that I often played with found in doctor’s offices’ waiting rooms. The illustration explores the ideas of nostalgia, restriction, and rosy retrospection.Double gate fold, saddle stitched.
SHARED SENTIMENTS
A poster exploring the idea of manufactured luck and its relationship with the human experience through Omikuji (Japanese fortune telling sheets) as an object.11”x17” Xerox on paper, 3.6”x5.6” perforatd small postcards.
NIKKO
A hypothetical rebrand for Nikko, Japan, a UNESCO World Heritage Site located in the Kanto region of Japan.
MANUFACTURED LUCK
A project working as an extention of the Shared Sentiments poster exploring the idea of manufactured luck and its relationship with the human experience through a slot machines as an object.21”x11” acrylic and wood.
DATASET
A small notepad sized perfect bounded book keeping the dataset used for my thesis project. The front and back cover is a failed cyanotype that was repurposed as a medium to print on for the covers. The inside consists of numbers overlayed with photos and imagery.3”x4” perfect bound, clear thermo printed acetate on laser printed paper.
