Planning Committee Member
pari passu, 2024-2025
Creator & Designer
Smeoow, 2021-2023
Artist Assistant
Bachelor of Fine Arts, Design
Typography
Synopsis The term banana is sometimes used to suggest that one is “yellow on the outside but white on the inside.” It is not an accurate representation of Asian experiences, especially given the diversity of native and diasporic cultures within the "Asian" population. this duo of essays centers the endless variations between yellow and white; negotiating what it means to exist in a material reality where Asian success often comes at the cost of Black failure and displacement of Indigenous peoples.
Set in Pragmatica, a sans-serif type family created by Alexander Tarbeev, Manvel Shmavonyan, Olga Chaeva, Vladimir Andrich, and Vladimir Yefimov for digital foundry Paratype.
Edition of 3, printed on copy paper on the Xerox Phaser color laser printer and handbound in the Cornish Book Arts Studio.
Edition of 3, printed on copy paper on the Xerox Phaser color laser printer and handbound in the Cornish Book Arts Studio.