The Brooklyn Chapter of the American Institute of Architects (AIA), established in 1894, is the second-largest of the Institute’s five chapters in the New York City region.
In partnership with the AIA, we produced PYLON, an avant-garde magazine spotlighting AIA members, noteworthy projects, and member activities in Brooklyn. Our design took cues from the vibrancy of the borough’s design community. The complete Pylon archive is now viewable on AIA Brooklyn’s website.
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Amanda Knott
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Owen Febiandi
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Putu Yogiswara
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Imam Fadilah
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Muhammad Syamil Haqqoni
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Community Wellbeing Index 2023
Datahaven
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DataHaven’s Community Wellbeing Index is a report focusing on wellbeing, equity, and quality of life in Greater New Haven, Fairfield County, and Greater Hartford, Connecticut.
For this project, we were tasked with the design of variant cover concepts and interior layouts for three reports presenting the latest data around these three topics for New Haven. Designed elements including cover design, layout, pagination, visualizations (tables, maps, icons, and infographics), and print mechanicals, as well as distinct color palettes for the visual identities of the three reports.
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Banishing Orientalism
Phil Chan
“Through a thoughtful examination of ballet history, peppered with touching personal anecdotes, witty humor, and candid—but never judgmental—observations, Banishing Orientalism provides a look at how classical ballets that have historically relied on Orientalism can be reimagined beyond harmful tropes. Banishing Orientalism is a glimpse into a more equitable future for the quickly diversifying world of ballet, making this an essential read for anyone invested in the art form.” —Pointe Magazine
Our publication design for Phil Chan’s book Banishing Orientalism incorporates a combination of storytelling illustration, dynamic typography, and historic photography.
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John Kudos
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Fay Qiu
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Muhammad Syamil Haqqoni
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Amanda Knott
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Frock Magazine
Eli Schmidt
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PRINT Awards 2022: First Place in Editorial Design
365:AIGA Year in Design: Winner in Editorial Design
SPD 58: Print Merit Winner
Visibility matters—and the desire to see ourselves represented without censorship is what keeps our language and lineage clear, pure, and authentic. This unselfconscious attitude is the unifying attribute shared by all of the artists, personalities, and performers represented in Frock, a magazine launched by photographer and publisher Eli Schmidt in 2019 as a source for queer photo stories, interviews, performance, and erotic films.
Our publication design drew upon the language of artist journals, homoerotic photography, and independent zine culture to create a platform for celebrating authentic queer joy. We worked closely with Schmidt to experiment with pairings of typography and photography that embody uninhibited concepts and emotions—the kink in the straight line.
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Fay Qiu
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Cornell Tech Inauguration Book
Cornell Tech
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The Jacobs Technion-Cornell Institute at Cornell Tech is a place for dynamic experimentation, where the boundaries of academia are expanded to integrate technology, business, law, and design in service of economic impact and greater societal good.
We were tasked with designing a keepsake book and construction-fence display for the inauguration of the Institute’s campus in September 2017. The book’s cover features a T-shaped die cut revealing details of the Bloomberg Center, one of the campus’s architecture highlights. A gatefold map of Roosevelt Island highlights future plans for the campus’s development. For the campus opening, we designed a 632-foot fence covering an ongoing construction site, with materials identifying the architect behind the building under construction.
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Saori Tahara
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Cornell Tech
Journal of Architectural Education
Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA)
This branding and website project for the Journal of Architectural Education (JAE) embodies the journal’s longstanding commitment to scholarly discourse and progressive architectural education. As a peer-reviewed international journal published under the auspices of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA), JAE serves as a vital platform for fostering inclusive, just, and sustainable architectural practices.
Through meticulous design choices and a commitment to visual storytelling, the JAE branding and website project exemplifies the journal’s mission to shape the future of architectural discourse and education. Our vibrant branding reflects the journal’s unique ethos, featuring a scholarly serif typeface for the main logo and an abbreviated logomark symbolizing social connectivity with a red stroke linking the letters a and e. Incorporating a diverse palette that represents the breadth of essays included in the journal, the website offers a dynamic interface for architectural educators, scholars, and designers to engage in thoughtful discussions about the evolution of architectural education and practice, contributing to the journal’s relevance and impact for future generations.
View jaeonline.org
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Chris Manlapid
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Guitar Heroes Exhibition Catalogue
The Met
“Guitar Heroes: Legendary Craftsmen from Italy to New York” was a special exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.
We designed the show’s exhibition catalogue. The cover and interior pages are decorated with typography, arranged vertically to evoke the appearance of guitar strings.
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Pen+Brush: Domesticity Revisited
Pen+Brush
“Domesticity Revisited” was an exhibition at Pen+Brush Gallery, showcasing four women artists who explored the theme of “home.”
Tasked with creating the exhibition’s catalogue, we created a typographic pattern reminiscent of wallpaper, with which we covered the book as a blind embossing. The color red, a recurring element in the featured artists’ work, is used throughout.
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John Kudos
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Pen+Brush
Yasumasa Morimura: Ego Obscura Catalogue
Japan Society
For this solo exhibition at the Japan Society in New York, Ego Obscura highlighted Morimura’s 30-year project of de-centering “the self” by excavating it from layers of art history, Japanese postwar history, and personal history. It also featured the U.S. premiere of the artist’s first full-length video work, Egó Sympósion (2016), and his latest cinematic installation, Egó Obscura (2018), presented in conjunction with a live performance, Morimura’s Nippon Cha Cha Cha!
We designed the show’s exhibit catalogue to feature Morimura’s latest work, Une Moderne Olympia (2018), on the front cover, contrasted with Portrait (Futago) (1988)—the artist’s work from 30 years prior, with different gender and race portrayals—on the back cover. The slim format of the book made for greater readability of its essays and performance scripts.
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Ashley Wu
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Japan Society
Community Wellbeing Index 2019
DataHaven
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DataHaven is a nonprofit that collects, interprets, and shares public data to inspire effective decision-making, improving the quality of life in local communities.
For this data-visualization and publication-design project, we designed a series of three DataHaven reports for Fairfield County, Greater Hartford, and Greater New Haven, Connecticut. We developed variant cover concepts and interior layouts for the three reports, along with data visualizations on almost every page interpreting data produced for more than 100 partners throughout Connecticut and its neighboring states.
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Ashley Wu
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Assembly: Civic Design Guidelines
Center for Active Design
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GDUSA 2018 American Graphic Design Awards
Produced in close collaboration with the Center for Active Design, “Assembly: Civic Design Guidelines” is a groundbreaking playbook for creating well-designed and well-maintained public spaces. The guidelines encapsulate four years of research—involving over 200 studies, 50 cities, and dozens of experts—highlighting the role of public spaces as a force for building trust and healing divisions in local communities.
We designed the published guidelines to incorporate vibrant colors and simple hand-drawn illustrations to help explain the significance of these research findings in simple terms, along with practical methods that policymakers can adopt to bring about great public spaces for all.
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Saori Tahara
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Quasquicentennial Campaign
AIA Brooklyn
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GDUSA 2019 American Graphic Design Awards
The Brooklyn Chapter of the American Institute of Architects (AIA), established in 1894, is the second-largest of the Institute’s five chapters in the New York City region.
To help the Brooklyn Chapter celebrate its 125th anniversary, we designed a campaign that visually centers the Roman numeral representation of 125—CXXV, or the quasquicentennial—as supergraphics on all of the Chapter’s platform materials, from website to gala booklets, umbrellas, and T-shirts.
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Ashley Wu
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AIA Brooklyn
ACT Report
Snap Inc. x The Aspen Institute
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The Action to Catalyze Tech (ACT) Report is an ever-evolving repository for accountability and engagement in the tech industry, created in response to an industry-wide call to action to improve diversity, equity, and inclusion in the sector.
KUDOS created a comprehensive PDF report hosted on a responsive website that features ever-expanding video archives of talks on this topic. We incorporated a call to action for engagement and accountability, along with multimedia integration and annual updates to reflect the organization’s current summit. Engaging visual elements like illustrations and color blocks were used to offset the heavy amount of information, making the report accessible and visually appealing.
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Christian Juniady Setiawan
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Design Tech Brochure
Cornell University AAP
Cornell University’s new Department of Design Tech is a multi-college, transdisciplinary initiative pioneering innovation, research, and teaching on those topics at the intersection of design and emerging technology that most greatly impact research, industry, and practice in an ever-evolving world.
The five-panel pamphlet we designed for the Department of Design Tech serves as a captivating gateway into the innovative world of design and emerging technology. With a bold “Des Tec” letterform adorning the front cover, the brochure invites viewers to explore further, unveiling the full “design tech” message as they delve deeper into its contents. Curated images, serving as full-blown backgrounds, seamlessly merge with the technological narrative, showcasing the department’s commitment to innovation, research, and education. Integrated red lines weave subtly throughout the pamphlet, harmonizing the college’s existing branding with the pamphlet’s fresh and contemporary aesthetic.
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Amanda Knott
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Cornell Tech
Made in Tokyo
Japan Society
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The Japan Society’s “Made in Tokyo” exhibition explored the development of socio-architectural facilities and compared landscapes with art and performance generated in Tokyo between the city’s two seminal Olympic Games events in 1964 and 2020. Atelier Bow-Wow, a Japanese architectural firm, curated and designed the exhibition.
We designed an exhibit brochure that unfolds as a map of Tokyo. The brochure features buildings covered in the exhibition, organized into six functional themes.
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Saori Tahara
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