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Ollantay Avila Alcocer⋆˚✿˖

Selected Works⋆𐙚₊˚⊹♡

Teotihuacan-A UNESCO World Heritage Site

An Interview with Kurt Woerpel

It Takes a Village-RISD Graphic Design Senior Show

The Princeton Progressive

Hi-RISD Orientation

Volume 1

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For the “Everyday Designer”
(Documentation in Progress)

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For the “Everyday Designer”

Research Project, Writing, Publication
Spring 2024

The desire to be understood, to reimagine, to build worlds for oursleves is profoundly human. Stickers, pins, doodles, embroidery, charms, graffiti, sign-painting, wheat-pasting, tattoos, memes, etc., all draw on the instinct to ornament, decorate, anotate, to imbue the surface with sentiment, self-expression, and agency. By doing so, we keep the surface malleable, a space in which we can perpetually be in conversation with the original. To ornament is to embrace the chaos of multiplicity with open arms, to reject standards imposed onto us.

“For the “Everyday Designer” aims to question the need for constant order, and to celebrate ornament and those who relish in it. May no surface be left untouched–may they come alive and show our hand.

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