Objects May Shift

Reimagining domestic spaces with interdisciplinary design through a student-designed exhibition for Milan Design Week


Objects May Shift is a cross-disciplinary exhibition featuring work by students in seven disciplines atRhode Island School of Design (RISD). This student-designed exhibition, shown at Salone Satellite during Milan Design Week, is a cross-pollination of ideas, materials, and scales that investigate our relationship to the domestic interior. It addresses the shifts in our climate, global politics, and collective consciousnesses—to reconstruct our understanding of form, function, and meaning.

I focused on the development of the exhibitions graphic identity, guided by Rebecca Wilkinson. From the variable typeface that reflects the shifts we referenced through our work to how the digital and physical identities of the exhibition should coexist and complement each other.









A prompt to recontextualize the ordinary and find surprise in the unexpected, Objects May Shift is a curious and critical exploration of how our world and the ways that we inhabit it are changing. From graphic design to art, furniture and textiles, the exhibition foregrounds creative flux and transgresses disciplinary tradition.

A variable typeface is scaled to excess, skewed and outlined; an upholstered seat inflates to become a wall; a cabinet is made from a dresser; and a woven Jacquard tapestry pairs AI-generated imagery with images of wealth, hoarding and trash.



Objects May Shift, 2024

Collaborative Project for RISD, 12 weeks
User interface design, digital presence creation, graphic identity development

Co-created with a team of 16 students at
Advised by Anais Missakian and Pete Oyler



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