2025

RGB v.s. CMYK
Identity design for a speculative convention, in which attendees choose between Team RGB versus Team CMYK, based on their preferences in design medium. The poster is a blank container, with room for designs to change. The principle of the system relies on the fact that all Team RGB designs must only live within the digital space, while for Team CMYK, all designs must be printed matter. 3D assets created modeled Cinema4D.

2025

Apple Watch Series 11
Available upon request.

2025

Stay for a While: Diners and Izakayas
A book about when eating out was once comfort and routine, not luxury. Table of contents, as well as chapter dividers, mimic server order pads, with handwritten typography. Typeset in ABC Marist and GT Pressura, photos taken on Sony A6100 at Louis Family Restaurant in Providence, RI.

2024

The Epitaph Project
With its beginnings rooted within a research-based mapping of the Sprague Family Lot in Providence’s Swan Point Cemetary, the Epitaph Project aims to question the notion of what an epitaph truly could be. Is rememberance rooted in just tombstones and the words engraved in them? Through various design experimentation and exploration, culminating to a final interactive web experience, we ask the audience: How do you want to be remembered?

2024

The Five Laws of Library Science /
Edible Forest Gardens
The Five Laws of Library Science is a theory proposed by S.R. Rangathan about the operating principles of library, and how it mimics a growing forest of information. Edible Forest Gardens by Dave Jacke and Eric Toensmeier is an ecological journal detailing how the forests around us flourish into libraries of information. This publication aims to garden this relationship between the forest and the library.

2023

The Angel in the Machine
A zine of collected texts relating to how the taxonomy of an angel mimics a computer: from microwave humming, OS systems, and telephone poles.

✶ rachel shin