ABOUT

Our studio is small, fully run by students who support daily operations, individual projects, and our clients directly. We are dedicated to engaging, first and foremost, in work that feels important and supportive to our community.

MISSION & VALUES

As students, our vision is an organization centered around providing for others.

As designers, our approach is equal parts aesthetic and research-based.

Artistic Expression

We thank our clients for supporting our platform for artistic expression as we believe that design can inspire curiosity, discovery, and transformation.

Fairness and Equity

We purposefully invite ongoing conversation that upholds and embodies fair practices and challenges imbalances of power and structural inequities. We are fostering and building an environment that inspires a more equitable future for student voices at RISD. We are open to rebuilding our processes and infrastructure, feel free to reach out to us with any feedback or concerns.

Collaboration and Support

We actively develop meaningful, reciprocal relationships with clients and peers, recognizing that diverse lived experiences and practices enrich our processes. We empower designers with desired support through peer-mentoring at every stage─from research and technical expertise to sustained dialogue before, during, and after project development.

CURRENT TEAM

Annabel Gillespie

is a designer with particular interest in editorial print and the poetic web. She likes making collections and often draws from these archives to inspire her work. She also enjoys looking through stained glass windows and sipping coffee at least once a day.

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Anushka Parikh

(b. 2006, California) is a designer, researcher, and artist who enjoys finding digital cultures, manifestos, accessible design, cybernetics, music, alt text, physical computation, textiles, rocks, web poetry, and em dashes. In the past year (2025), Anushka has listened to a few songs by Bladee (604) failed to avoid [deadly] naps (12) designed websites (9) done mehndi on herself (7) bought some pairs of shoes (3) a dangerous average of sleep, which is why she speaks in the least literal way possible ☺ (6)

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Coco Li

is a concept-driven designer focused on how identities take shape through cultural structures. A self-described “human Nikon,” Coco brings a sharp observational lens to the world and channels those insights into thoughtful brand systems. They unwind with Twin Peaks marathons and an enduring love for strawberry matcha.

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Francine Zhang

is an artist from Beijing, currently studying Graphic Design at the Rhode Island School of Design. She enjoys exploring different fields and creating with a variety of media. Her work is often inspired by color, light, nature, culture, and dynamic visual movement. Spring is her favorite season, and her dream is to have a studio surrounded by nature where she can create during the springtime.

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Grace Zhao

comes from Macau and Beijing. She wants to create fun, interactive, and dynamic work that combines traditional and new media. She hopes to take a nap.

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Hyunmin Kim

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Kay Kim

is a graphic designer exploring the intersection of the analog and digital. She loves snowy winters and holding warm bungeo-ppang on days when her breath turns white.

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Maggie Xian

enjoys gathering chaos into orderly systems. Hailing from Aotearoa New Zealand, she would like to remind you that she is not, in fact, Australian. Things that hold a special place in her heart include her IKEA Dejsa lamp, Comic Sans, and large bodies of water.

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Mary-Elizabeth Boatey

greets you from the farm fields of Fishkill, New York. She loves all things analog and her craft explores the interconnected nature of tactile and digital worlds. She loves visual systems, ephemera, sewing, and sweet treats.

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Nadine Macapagal

drifts in from foggy Daly City, California. She's a fan of ampersands, legibility/non-legibility, visual culture, & loves giving back to the communities that raised her.

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Neat Rodanant

is studying Graphic Design at Rhode Island School of Design with a concentration of Nature-Culture-Sustainability Studies. She is interested in playful typography, publication design, and book design. She likes making books because it’s like making little sculptures :)

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Nicole Sun

is a designer interested in worlds and systems bridging the digital and material. In and out of work, she enjoys running through theoretics and entertaining wild jumps across categorical configurations.

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Punch Kulphisanrat

is a designer from Bangkok, Thailand. He loves dogs, especially dachshunds (wishes he owned one), drawing in his class notebook until every bit of space is filled, and he loves designing, though he’s still figuring out what his work should revolve around or focus on.

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Rachel Shin

is a designer from sunny northern california, who wants to create a little bit of everything and anything. she likes persimmons, lactonic notes in fragrances, the nba, and is currently looking for people to hoop with.

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Runping Mao

is a designer from China and Spain. She loves exploring new places and taking silly photos. Working alongside her kitty catty always makes her day.

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Shiyan Zhu

is a mushroom born in China, she feels most at home among trees and grass. She’s passionate about book design, publication design, and all cool forms. She’s also a huge collector of intricate stamps and stones. In her spare time, she enjoys spending time with her cat, DunDun.

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PAST MEMBERS

Andrew Liu, Ash Ma, Hannah Jeong, Jyot Thind, Li Huang, Minah Kim, Ryan Yan, Christine Wang, Emma Caamaño, Joyce Ho, Kayla Feng, Patrick Farrell, Peter Weicheng Xu, Ryan Brandon Hsiao, Ollantay Avila, Anmol Govinda Rao, Ella Lawless, Henry Spuria, Jacob Hwan Lee, Matthew Cuschieri, Maxton O’Connor, Mizuki Hanada, Sharlene Deng, Truman Lesak, Yasemin Sarihan, Leo Horton, Alejandro Molestina, Bryson Lee, Mankun Guo, Marcus Soltzberg, Minjun Choi, Qinru Zhang, Utkan Dora Oncul, Soleil Singh, Labelle Chang, Julie Alter, Amanda Yang, Corinne Ang, Baijun Chen, Madi Ko, Jack Fahnestock, Jennifer Joung, Tiger Dingsun, Sara Park, Minji Koo, AJ Hansen, Candy Wang, Eliza Chen, Gabby Widjaja, Joshua Shao, Julian Kelly, Rohan Chaurasia, Stephanie Winarto, Zoe Schneider, Maria Ji, Adrian Gonzalez, Mei Lenehan, Clarissa Liu, Jacob Poindexter, Helen Gao, May Kodama, Connor Cowden, Jamie Chen, Eli Block, Barron Webster, Valerie Nelson, ChaoQun Wang, Ben Ross, Jon Rinker, Saad Moosajee, Lukas Eigler—Harding, Stephanie Low, Jackie Ferrentino, Kathy Wu, Chloe Scheffe, Chris Lo, Dan Guiditta, Phil Cao, Emily Albert, Sofia Clausse, Kelsey Lim, Ryan Bugden, Mary Tao, Scott Brower, Tori Hinn, Simone Niquille, Max Ackerman, Becca Abbe, Martha Main, Calvin Waterman, Wes Adams, Dana Davis, Ivy Tai, Young Jae Jang, Helen Koh