bananaland — midi

midi

A Seattle-based visual communication & interaction designer with roots in Saigon, Vietnam. may (aka midi) has the most fun when creating packaging and websites.

RESUME.PDF

Experiencepari passu, 2024 – present
Creator & Designer

Smeoow, 2021 – 2023
Artist Assistant

Depop, 2019 – 2020
Lead Campus Manager

Education Bachelor of Fine Arts in Design, MAY 2024
Cornish College of the Arts
Seattle, WA

bananaland

Academic
3.5 weeks

Print Design
Typography

bananaland is a publication that features original essays critically analyzing the intricately layered intersection we refer to as the asian experience.

Index

Foreword

Unbuilding Nation-state
May Dinh

Silent Shout
Emelia Austin
May Dinh

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.