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[Selected projects] graphic design ︎




#ARTOFWEB / Art & Culture
Mozilla Festival, London
2014

To celebrate the DIY punk spirit of the festival’s first-ever art and culture track, I created this limited edition mini-zine alongside an open call on a Tumblr page (which went viral) to spread the word. Offered in an open source format, the zine invited publics to print their own copies, fold them together, and share freely.

Deliverables: 
Visual identity
Pamphlet
Zine
Signage
Website design
Co-design workshops

Accessing Cultural Experiences
King’s College London & Keio University Tokyo
2021

For this project, a 6-part design sprint on how cultural access in digital environments could address the isolation of hard-to-reach publics during the Covid-19 pandemic in London and Tokyo, I designed a limited-edition art print on paper and mixed media to reflect the experience of working alone, yet together. The print was used to populate a simple website that was used by the project to disseminate research findings. It was also modified into a card, which was sent alongside tea satchels from Arinobu Tea to invite participants to a virtual tea party. 

Deliverables:
Print media
Stationary
Website design

Open Government Data Camp
Warsaw, Poland
2011

The visual identity for this festival highlighted its qualities of inviting play and celebration, where open data meets future policymaking.

Deliverables:
Visual identity
Website design
Pamphlet
Stationary



Digital <> material!
London, Berlin, Vancouver
2019-23

I typically build the visual identity of the projects I work with through a three-stage process of making physical materials into digital, and back again. I start with painted artworks using discarded paper scraps and mixed media that I gather from my travels around the world. I then render them digitally, designing across multiple platforms to be distributed as print and digital media. This method has been used for a variety of projects and campaigns with clients ranging from Victoria & Albert Museum, The Public Domain Review, BC Council for International Cooperation, Girl Gang and UK Parliament to Art Tech Nature Culture

Deliverables:
Prints
Stationary
Signage
Digital campaigns
Website architecture
Editorial design


Digital Studio Remix
TATE, London
2015-17

This project illustrates the kind of work I like to do during residencies - inviting local communities to build creative solutions to problems together using co-design approaches. For this design research residency at TATE Britain and TATE Modern in collaboration with the Taylor Digital Studio from 2015 to 2017, I worked with studio managers, curators, artists and other museum staff to build a community archive of 30 gatherings hosted since 2012 at the Digital Studio, one of London’s first public spaces for digital making and learning within a museum. We organised a variety of workshops and making sessions to explore the different aspects of how people used and experienced the space over time. One of our interventions, the design probe  ‘Spacehacker’, was featured in the MozEx digital arts exhibit curated by Tate and V&A in 2016.  

Deliverables: 
Visual identity
Website design
Co-design workshops


Flying toasters in the archives
2020-23

An ongoing set of experiments in form, which explore the materiality of transforming digital media artefacts from ancient internet subcultures such as cyberpunk and vaporwave into street art. Working with old screenprinters and other aged machines in between the cities of London and Vancouver, these works are often positioned surreptitiously in urban space, in ways that playfully invite public participation.

Deliverables:
Digital design
Printmaking



A sticker for everyone!
2016-23

Everyone who knows me, knows I love exchanging stickers - as vernacular artform, as public statement, as a way of chatting! Wherever they are found, stickers tend to say the kinds of things about us that are hard to say otherwise. I design stickers for a variety of projects on a sliding scale, and I love wild ideas. Keep an eye out for my Zen Pixie series, a pack of holographic beings who want everyone to feel loved. Distributed by street art accomplices far and wide across the world, they can often be found winking at you from unexpected slices of urban space.

Deliverables:
Digital design
Print media
Gemütlichkeit ︎

“I want to dance for the renewal of the world.” - robin well kimmerer