ii.2. Objects May Shift
Exhibition Identity & Print Publication
Objects May Shift
Objects May Shift was a cross-disciplinary exhibition featuring work by RISD students from seven disciplines—Ceramics, Furniture Design, Glass, Graphic Design, Industrial Design, Interior Architecture, and Textiles. An exhibition and an experimental pedagogical model for collaborative curation, framing, and exhibit design, Objects May Shift was also a prompt to think in new ways and to evolve our perceptions of the world around us.
This visual identity and print publication was just one component of a much larger collaborative effort to conceptualize and design an exhibition at the Salone Satellite—Salone del Mobile Milan in the spring of 2024.
The visual system for this exhibition is anchored in a typographic language that uses a variable font to express the shifting nature of design’s approach to materials, technologies and methods of making in response to a changing political, environmental, intellectual, and aesthetic climate. This expressive typographic approach is paired with images of the artworks and objects photographed in RISD’s liminal spaces, and bitmapped still-life photos that nod to the medium of print.
This visual system was used across all material announcing the Milan show, wall graphic and didactics in the exhibition itself, a graphic t-shirt, as well as a print publication distributed on site at the salone.
This student-designed exhibition was a cross-pollination of ideas, materials and scales that investigate and interrogate our relationship to the domestic interior. Shifts in our climate, global politics and collective consciousness reconstruct our understanding of form, function and meaning. Our contemporary demands new approaches to materials, technologies and methods of making. For emerging artists and designers, this requires that we work collaboratively to imagine new possibilities from our unique disciplinary vantage points.
Objects May Shift was co-directed by Anais Missakian and Pete Oyler at Rhode Island School of design, and was the result of the work of 21 designers, artists, and makers. It was featured in the New York Times, Sight Unseen, Dezeen among other notable publications.
—Print Publication: 5.5” by 8.5” (closed), edition of 1,000
—Variable Type: Harber by BB Bureau