ordered mass

• 001 a chicago flag
• 002 workplace of tomorrow 
  
• 003 space, junk
  
• 004 machine to replace myself
  
• 005 designing for connection
  
• 006 expressions of the holiday spirit
  
• 007 paul sahre lecture
  
• 008 half day at the lake
  
• 009 the walls, the doors, & the peephole
  
• 010 methodology 23
• 011 what will remain?
  
• 012 kenosha city church
  
• 013 the graduate student lounge
  
• 014 luna’s mexican street food
  
• 015 chicago threads, dmoc
  
• 016 methodology 24
  
• 017 everything i own in a shower
  
• 018 meshico tacos & tequila
  
• 019 placemaking & branded experience
  

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the graduate student lounge 
2018

Environmental graphics & signage for a student lounge
Supported by RISD Graduate Experience
Designed with Elaine Lopez & Chris Cote

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The Graduate Student Lounge was once an office space, but it’s been converted to be a place where grad students can go to get away from studio, or to have a gathering, or to meet with friends, or to, basically, use however they need. But many grad students did not know what they were allowed to do in the lounge. 

With designers Elaine Lopez and Chris Cote, we derived a solution that embraced the variability of the space. The signage system is a long run-on sentence that snakes across the win-dows listing many possibilities for the use of the lounge. In order emphasize that the Graduate Student Lounge wasn’t just an academic space, some of the possibilities listed were serious and some were humorous.

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photo credits: Brandon Olsen 

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the design practice of brandon olsen

location: the midwest 

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