Marmara
Publication
A1 folded to A4
Printed by A4 Ofset Istanbul
Alia & Mo
Printed by Boxcar Press
I had the pleasure of designing all of the print collateral for my sister’s wedding in 2021 in what amounted to be a very satisfying personal project. My mother grew up in Colombia and we were all ecstatic when it was announced the wedding would be held there. The visual language emerged from the rich history of Cartagena and the lush botanicals so readily available there and became rooted in a series of flourishes that come together to create a monogram. I also designed a booklet to guide guests through the weekend’s events, which I produced myself using a risograph printer.
Grafting Orchard Heritage
Publication & Research
A5, 295 pages, spiral bound
This work was completed as part of my Masters thesis at Camberwell College of Arts, University of the Arts London.
Grafting orchard heritage investigates the heritage politics of English orchards through a methodology of grafting. The project argues that the grafting serves as a viable way of celebrating the hybridity of heritage and historical narratives in such a way that the its local parts are not subsumed into a nationalist whole. This book, organised according to a calendar of orchard tasks, functions as an annotated archive, using primary research in the form of dynamic endnotes to literally comment on the narratives put forth in larger media portrayals of orchards and heritage (loss).
The endnotes disrupt the flow of the archival material introduced throughout the book, grafting them back onto local contexts. The hope is that they provide new ways of experiencing the text that precedes them, offering lines of flight from deterministic historical narratives. Instead, these endnotes embrace multiplicity and offer alternatives to single readings of heritage discourse and its impacts on ecologies, communities, history and their politics.
Victims to Pomona
Website
This work was completed as part of my Masters thesis at Camberwell College of Arts, University of the Arts London.
Victims to Pomona suggests that mistletoe and its favourite host, domesticated apple trees, are united through a groundlessness found in roots that are not their own. Apples and mistletoe share botanical, cultural, economic and ecological resources—through myriad vectors, they produce each other. Using two AIs, one trained on a corpus of horticultural texts and the other on accounts of botanical magic and unruly ecologies, this project challenges the presupposed hierarchy between sub/main text and host/parasite. It dwells in between designations—old, new and ongoing—and channels parasitism as a generative force, not a destructive one, to examine how apples and mistletoe discursively conjure each other into being.
Studholme
Typeface
One of the winners of the Society of Typographic Art’s annual STA 100 competition, “which honors the 100 best examples of typographic excellence produced aroung the globe each year.”
Studholme was created in early 2020 to bring the old and the new together. It’s is inspired by classical roman typefaces but draws on Old English and Germanic forms to create simultaneously straightforward and over-the-top glyphs with a slew of alternate figures and ligatures.
It’s something new and something storied all the same and the vast array of contextual alternates and discretionary ligatures allows for a high degree of flexibility depending on different applications.
Available soon.