As part of the organizing committee for RISD’s first-ever independently organized TEDx event, I had the pleasure of working with the operations team to develop a set design that would encapsulate this year’s theme: Unravel: Ideas Worth Disentangling.
”Unravel“ captures the interconnected complexities that constitute the building blocks of our lives, ultimately informing our worldviews. To capture the complexities of the theme, we explored various visuals that were abstract, intertwined, and ever-changing. Using a simple letter ’x‘, we distorted and dissected it through various tools to create dynamic forms, ultimately creating a geometric, distorted form that gently ebbs and flows. This abstract pattern became the foundation of the visual system and was applied across all promotional materials and the stage design.TEDxRISD
Event collaboration with:
Michael Farris, Aanya Arora, Victoria Liang, Juhi Nagpal, Na Yong Lee, Nooriyah Gulamhusein, Jason Liao, Li June Choi, Mahnoor Rafi, Isaiah Aladejobi, Yinjia Liu
Event photography by Yinjia Liu, Bart Saminski
SET DESIGN PROCESS
Digital Sketch: Rhino and Photoshop
Physical Stage: CNC and Painted Foam
