OPEN OPEN
Identity, Design, Development
2021
A flexible identity system for a tennis tournament that, unlike major tennis opens, is truly open to anyone and everyone: amateurs, pros, and people who have never picked up a racquet.
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A flexible identity system for a tennis tournament that, unlike major tennis opens, is truly open to anyone and everyone: amateurs, pros, and people who have never picked up a racquet.
Read More +A package design system that generates itself (with the help of an algorithm, of course).
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A poster series for an exposition that highlights the essentiality of decolonizing design and centering diverse perspectives within the global design discipline.
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A generative wordmark for an identity refresh of Whitechapel Gallery, a modern and contemporary art gallery based in East London.
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A type tool that explores the generative potential of mold, rot, and decay through typographic form.
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A series of similar yet uniquely personalized postcards that are both computationally and manually generated.
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The Wikipedia article for "Ball culture" → translated into a 70-page, purely typographic book.
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Nikki (Niktari) Makagiansar is a designer who likes to code based in Brooklyn, New York. She is currently developing data-driven and algorithmic identities at Pentagram under Giorgia Lupi.
Nikki is a graduate of Parsons School of Design, where she was also a research assistant for the Design & Technology director, Justin Bakse.
She is also a co-founder of SPICY, a grassroots arts and publishing organization for and by queer and trans people of color. Prior to pursuing a design practice, she was part of the brand marketing team at Comedy Central.
Available for Freelance