Artistic Research, Installation

Play Time is an interactive installation that reimagines the office space as a site for fostering connection rather than division. It critiques the banality and isolating nature of a plain, semi-enclosed desk by hacking office tools and furniture, turning into musical instruments. The project originates from how a workspace can be confronting for Immigrant workers since it can be a space for microaggressions and isolation related to factors such as gender, race, language barriers and differences in work culture. For those whose legal status relies on hard-to-attain work visas, the challenges at a workplace can be especially difficult.

Inspired by the historical role of music in unionising workers and subverting oppressive working conditions, Play Time encourages collective moments where office workers can come together and play music. A jam session operates non-hierarchically and is less focused on individual outcomes than collective experience, therefore it not only confronts the prevailing quiet, hierarchical, individualistic, and productivity-centric office culture, but also fosters worker organizing and solidarity.

Exhibited at Dutch Design Week 2024

Our Collective Body

Artistic Research, Installation

Our Collective Body is a clinic and community space offering collective therapy sessions to address and heal work fatigue experienced by the digital working class, particularly designers who spend long hours sitting in front of computers. The clinic takes a holistic approach, incorporating traditional Chinese medicine alongside collective reflections on the working conditions faced by digital designers.

The Into Acton Lab is run by the creative agency Taskforce. Through their partnerships with organizations such as the United Nations, Women’s March and NARAL, the lab has hit 50B views with over 5k pieces of content on Giphy since its founding in February 2020. It produces and delivers gifs about pressing issues such as racial justice, gender equity, LGBTQ rights, climate change, COVID vaccination, universal healthcare, and much more.

As a creator in the lab, I worked alongside over 50 artists, designing and animating GIFs in various styles and themes daily based on prompts commissioned by partner organizations.

Studio: Taskforce

LA vs Hate is a community-centered creative campaign to encourage and support all residents of Los Angeles County to unite against, report, and resist hate. I made over 100 animated pieces and designed a website for this campaign to help LA’s diverse neighborhoods and communities share the message and stand up against hate together.

All creative pieces can be downloaded and shared from lavshate.org and LA vs Hate Giphy. To text a gif or use a sticker, search for “LAvsHate” or a gif’s headline.

Studio: Taskforce;
Client: Los Angeles County

Mental Health Action Day Creative Jam

The Creative Jam is a three-hour 'create-a-thon' designed to produce content that supports positive mental health actions. The initiative was significant during the pandemic lockdown and raising awareness through the creative community on taking care of mental health. I created this online event’s identity, motion graphics and website.

website: https://www.creativejam.art/past-jams

Studio: Taskforce;
Client: MTV

Visual concept, identity and poster design for “X”, the collaboration between Elevator Radio and Design Academy Eindhoven (DAE)’s in-house editorial team that produced a week-long radio programme of public debates, discussions and interviews at Salone del Mobile in Milan.

The identity is based on a graphic representation of the “X”, with negative spaces in the silhouette of a headphone jack and a pen nib. Embracing “X” as infinite possibilities, the poster is designed as a canvas open for various interpretations, featuring illustrations drawn by friends and members of the DAE community.

Media Mentions:Dezeen, Disegno, ED, Het Koninklijk Huis

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Photo Documentation by Ilco Kemmere

From February 6th to 10th, 2023, Elevator Radio organized a series of six workshops for students at Design Academy Eindhoven. These workshops covered producing radio shows, sound engineering, DJing, sound design, speaker building, and graphics making. In addition to leading the organization of these workshops, I created the posters and illustrations in RISO.

Typography by Nick Monre-Meares

The Arena is a live talk, debate and performance platform that takes place at the centre of the annual Design Academy Eindhoven (DAE) Graduation Show during Dutch Design Week. In 2022, The Arena collaborated with Elevator Radio, the radio network run by students at DAE, and created a week-long live broadcast programs including roundtable discussions, debates, interviews, music and chit-chats, for emerging designers to not only present their work, but also engage in conversations about the ins and outs of design.

Photo Documentation by Boudewijn Bollmann
Poster printed with RISO by Nick Monre-Meares

Website redesign for Pasadena Conservatory of Music Chamber Music Competition in collaboration with studio Yay Brigade.

The website can be viewed at compete.pasadenaconservatory.org