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Game Over Books, Game Over Books

UNBOUND 2020 Archive (Virtual)

Game Over Books is a small publisher run collaboratively by a group of nerdy artists. Our goal is to amplify diverse voices in writing and bring high-quality publications to all people. We are working to accomplish this by focusing on emerging writers and giving guidance and support as they continue to grow their craft. www.gameoverbooks.com

Iris Xie, Iris Xie

UNBOUND 2020 Archive (Virtual)

I am an illustrator with emphasis on a thorough design process. I was raised in an Asian-American family and have a background in the disabled community. I have done work for Artists for Humanity, the Guild for Human Services, and Dana Farber Cancer Institute to name a few. irisxie.com

Headmaster, Matthew Lawrence, Jason Tranchida

UNBOUND 2020 Archive (Virtual)

Headmaster, the art magazine for man-lovers, is a project-based print publication featuring original art and writing inspired by assignments written by the magazine’s two editors. Released on an irregular but roughly annual schedule, Headmaster No. 9 will be released in early summer 2020. www.headmastermagazine.com

Yian Zhou: Zy - A | Boston University Graphic Design, Yian Zhou

UNBOUND 2020 Archive (Virtual)

The Boston University Graphic Design program (undergraduate, graduate, and alum) showcases work generated from and informed by personal practice and studio projects (screen printing, book arts, and typography class). Students participating have a strong interest in experimental self-publishing and the role graphic design plays in communicating ideas and messages. bu_Graphicdesign instagram

Magik Press Studios, Aly Maderson Quinlog

UNBOUND 2020 Archive (Virtual)

Magik Press Studios prints limited-edition, bespoke, and one-of-a-kind books. We are a ‘micro-press’ which focuses on zines, artist catalogs, poetry, and handmade artist editions. The studio hosts unique community art events and artist Aly Maderson Quinlog teaches private art lessons, paper arts workshops, and cyanotype printing. Art connects the brain and the heart. www.magik.press

Birdenvy, Karen Knighton, Skip Wrightson

UNBOUND 2020 Archive (Virtual)

Karen Knighton & Skip Wrightson are both animators and make handmade, hand-bound mini-comics. Some comics are limited editions printed at home layered with vellum, some are GOCCO, some are RISO. www.birdenvy.com

Czap Books, K Czap

UNBOUND 2020 Archive (Virtual)

Czap Books is a Providence-based micropress publisher dedicated to celebrating the poetic, personal, and weird in a rich ecosystem of comics and zines. They champion cross-pollination of genre and influences, a mission embodied by the Ley Lines series that explores the relationship between comics and other artforms. charmgardens.com

Ryan Alves, Ryan Alves

UNBOUND 2020 Archive (Virtual)

I have been endeavoring to push myself to make more comics, more often, using diverse media. I’ve been self publishing for about 4 years. livinginmethan.weebly.com

Risd Graphic Design | Ramon Tejada, Ramon Tejada

UNBOUND 2020 Archive (Virtual)

RISD Graphic Design offers BFA and MFA programs that push on the boundaries of the discipline, where students learn to communicate ideas visually, frame points of view and messages, build community, and embrace a fluid, networked culture. risd.gd

Risd Graphic Design | Erica Silver, Erica Silver

UNBOUND 2020 Archive (Virtual)

RISD Graphic Design offers BFA and MFA programs that push on the boundaries of the discipline, where students learn to communicate ideas visually, frame points of view and messages, build community, and embrace a fluid, networked culture. risd.gd

Ruby And Isobel, Isobel Connelly, Ruby Miller

UNBOUND 2020 Archive (Virtual)

Isobel Connelly and Ruby Miller, two-part artist/designer collective with an affinity for multiples.

Wei Yun Chen: Hello Kitty W/ Mouth | Boston University Graphic Design, Wei Yun Chen

UNBOUND 2020 Archive (Virtual)

The Boston University Graphic Design program (undergraduate, graduate, and alum) showcases work generated from and informed by personal practice and studio projects (screen printing, book arts, and typography class). Students participating have a strong interest in experimental self-publishing and the role graphic design plays in communicating ideas and messages. tunachecn_ instagram, bu_Graphicdesign instagram

Sharon Zhong: Attention, Distraction | Boston University Graphic Design, Sharon Zhong

UNBOUND 2020 Archive (Virtual)

The Boston University Graphic Design program (undergraduate, graduate, and alum) showcases work generated from and informed by personal practice and studio projects (screen printing, book arts, and typography class). Students participating have a strong interest in experimental self-publishing and the role graphic design plays in communicating ideas and messages. bu_Graphicdesign instagram

Nike's Knacks And Snacks, Nike Desis

UNBOUND 2020 Archive (Virtual)

Nike Desis makes small editions of zines, screen prints, & refashioned clothing/ accessories. They are prototypes from primary sources as Nike often uses popular/ found imagery/objects. She curates this content outside of algorithms with a spirit of sharing and reuse. Nike is also always studying group work, in practice and through workshops, observations, interviews, research, and readings. www.nikedesis.com

Cardkits, Anther Kiley

UNBOUND 2020 Archive (Virtual)

Anther Kiley is a RISD alum (GD MFA ’13) and adjunct faculty in the GD department. They design and market Cardkits, a line of book-like paper toy kits for kids and adults that assemble into engaging miniature cityscapes. cardkitstoys.com

Risd Graphic Design | Utkan Dora Öncül, Uktan Dora Öncül

UNBOUND 2020 Archive (Virtual)

RISD Graphic Design offers BFA and MFA programs that push on the boundaries of the discipline, where students learn to communicate ideas visually, frame points of view and messages, build community, and embrace a fluid, networked culture. risd.gd

Olivia Orr, Olivia Orr

UNBOUND 2020 Archive (Virtual)

I am a graphic design senior at RISD (2020) and I love book arts! Most of my work involves Biblical themes and illustrated typography and graphics. I took a “Print on Paper” class last semester (2019) and made two risograph printed books that are on sale for Unbound. behance, oliviawaugh.com

Erik Gould, Erik Gould

UNBOUND 2020 Archive (Virtual)

I am a photographer and a bookmaker. I am interested in the ways that groups of images can work together and how those groups join with text, with sound and with pages, both physical and digital, held within the container of a book. The unique encounter of a reader with a book is where I wish the work to meet an audience. – Erik Gould, Senior Photographer, RISD Museum erikgouldprojects.com

Skate Or Dye | Mikaela Kautzky, Mikaela Kautzky

UNBOUND 2020 Archive (Virtual)

SKATE OR DYE is a 120-page art publication on DIY skateboarding, natural dyeing and textiles in a northern island context. This iteration comprises drawings, textile works, colour photography, short pieces of writing, and how-to’s on natural dyeing as well as skate feature assembling. Through words and visuals SKATE OR DYE investigates islands as laboratories for DIY culture and inclusive design. www.mikaelakautzky.com, mik00k instagram

Jr., Corinne Ang, Jina Choi, Julia Chu

UNBOUND 2020 Archive (Virtual)

Julia, Corinne and Jina are a self-publishing group of RISD graphic design students interested in creating stories and narratives through various printed mediums. We are particularly intrigued in the connection and interaction of people and culture and enjoy sharing these discoveries through print.

Ugly Duckling Presse, Ugly Duckling Presse

UNBOUND 2020 Archive (Virtual)

Ugly Duckling Presse is a nonprofit publisher for poetry, translation, experimental nonfiction, performance texts, and books by artists. Through the efforts of a volunteer editorial collective, UDP was transformed from a 1990s zine into a mission-driven small press that has published more than 300 titles to date, and produced countless prints and ephemera.

UDP favors emerging, international, and “forgotten” writers, and its books, chapbooks, artist’s books, broadsides, and periodicals often contain handmade elements, calling attention to the labor and history of bookmaking. uglyducklingpresse.org

Meichen Liu, Meichen Liu

UNBOUND 2020 Archive (Virtual)

Meichen Liu, PRINT 22 makes larger-than-human-size installations, picture books and zines to present personal understandings of human emotions as well as relationships, and also to resonate with her audience. She seeks a deeper meaning behind ordinary things, and her seekings are reflected in her arts. She is searching for a way to combine maths with fine arts. She hasn’t found the one she likes yet, but she never gives up on things she values, and she gains better comprehension in both fields through this process. View Meichen's Baker & Whitehill Annual Student Artists' Book Contest entries Pockets, 2020 and …

Yiqun Zhou, Yiqun Zhou

UNBOUND 2020 Archive (Virtual)

I've been working on a 32 pages comic about humor for over a year now (2020). It’s a story about a super power comedian interviewing another super power comedian. It has very interesting paneling (said by my professor and my classmates) and it’s a nice story.

Untitled, Unknown

Morehead State University Art Collection

An untitled, undated collage created by an unknown artist.

Kepler-16b, Nasa Jpl, Dan Goods, David Delgado

Morehead State University Art Collection

An undated print of planet Kepler-16b by the NASA JPL team in a series titled "Visions of the Future."

[P]Lace: Reinterpreting The Feminine, Nicole D. James

College of Graduate Studies: Theses & Dissertations

This body of work, [P]lace: Reinterpreting the Feminine, explores the ideas of gender and the the common associations materials, colors, values, etc. have in relationship to the accepted feminine and masculine. Armed with knowledge of these assumptions, my lace sculpture and installation work aims to draw attention to the complications surrounding what we understand as feminine through material transformation. By changing select qualities of the material, I create analogies for assumptions commonly made about women. My ultimate goal is not only material manipulation, but to question some of the fundamental elements we associate with gender itself. I …

Fabrications, Molly V. Rivera

Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers

The objects that surround us tell a story of our past, and act as physical stand ins for a person, place, or experience no longer present. My work explores the significance of objects and how we use them to preserve our memories and make them tangible. Memory is ephemeral and changes over time, simultaneously growing weaker and stronger. I use clay to accentuate this relationship, visually depicting both preservation and decay.

Inspired by my personal narrative, I recreate specific objects of significance by hand. This results in subtle variations of the original, much like the changes in our memory over …

Exploring The Creation Of Immersive And Responsive Spaces For Interrelationship Through The Concept Of Playfulness, Yonghun Jung

Theses and Dissertations

The COVID-19 pandemic that began in early 2020 is causing serious damage to many countries. As of May, the number of confirmed patients worldwide is at 3.35 million and the death toll stands at 239,000 people. As a way to prevent the pandemic, most countries encourage people to keep social or physical distance and self-quarantine. According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, they recommend that people stay at least six feet away from each other and the South Korean government also recommend keeping their distance from each other at least two meters.

Because of the current situation, …

I Hope My Black Skin Don't Dirt This White Tuxedo, Luis A. Vasquez La Roche

Theses and Dissertations

I Hope My Black Skin Don't Dirt This White Tuxedo is a series of works--sculpture, installations, and performances--that explore themes of shame, failure, commodity, ephemerality, ritual, resilience, erasure, race, and death. The research and interest in these themes stem from a page of the Trinidad and Tobago Slave Registry. I use the research that surrounds this document to highlight different moments in history, in my personal life, and to imagine near futures.

Paul By Paul By Paul, Paul Finch

Theses and Dissertations

In 2020 flamboyant fashion is associated with queer performativity. Psychologist Alan Downs and queer theorist madison moore understand this to be a response to a culture that is hostile to sexual behaviour and gender expression that falls outside a rigid binary. I study the history of flamboyant aesthetics and camp sensibilities from an intersectional perspective, and locate designers and artists who have produced clothes in ways that materialize the political implications of fashion. As a studio-based artist, I employ traditional sewing techniques, digital technologies, and performance to create clothes and new media works that demonstrate a circular understanding of time, …