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Building My World, 
From the Ground Up
202524 × 18 cm, 
284 pages
Paper: Munken Print Cream 15 90g/qm
Cover: Munken Print Cream 15 300g/qm

Typefaces: 
William by Typotheque
Basel grotesk by Optimo
Dilinh by Đông Trúc Nguyễn
Under French rule, language became a major tool of control. As the French sought to control access to knowledge in Vietnam, they enforced a nation-wide colonial language policy. Over time, their influence extended beyond changing the writing system to altering the Vietnamese lexicon. Through archiving and contextualizing French loanwords in Vietnamese, the print publication questions whether they exist merely as a manifestation of French colonialism or have become an artefact of the vernacular.

Bachelor thesis, supervised by Prof. Christian Stindl and Prof. Christoph Zielke


Uncanny
2023
26 × 17 cm
128 pages
Paper:
Mondi BIO TOP 3® next 1.33 80 g/qm, 
Gmund Colors Matt 86 Key Lime 120 g/qm
Gmund Bauhaus Dessau Black 250 g/qm

Typefaces: 
GT Alpina by Grillitype
ABC Favorit by Dinamo
RYM by Supercontinente“The uncanny valley” refers to the human’s unsettling response when observing something that appears almost, but not quite, human. Sophia the humanoid robot falls within the uncanny valley spectrum. The 128-page publication follows a staircase structure. Each layer reflects a different depth, through which we perceive Sophia: starting with her appearance, then our assumptions about her, and finally a true understanding of her intentions and our reaction towards her.


Dis/connected
2022
A0 poster
Digitally printed gradient
Screen-printed silver type Dis/connected is a typeface and an A0 mixed-media poster based on Jonathan Safran Foer’s quote: “I have never resisted a wave.” The poster is an interplay of contrast: between stencils and the connected script, between the screen-printed type and digital gradient. Through juxtaposition, it serves as a metaphor for how we live as individuals, yet act and react as a collective. 

Dis/connected was presented in the exhibition “Over/Under” at the Doshisha Women’s College of Liberal Arts in 2023.


Reclaiming Kharkiv
2022
24 × 16 cm
72 pages

Typefaces: 
ABC Whyte by Dinamo
Le Monde Livre by Typofonderie
Inter by Rasmus Andersson
Savate by WECH, Velvetyne“How does the image of a city shift in times of war?” Kharkiv is the second-largest city in Ukraine, often known for its long history, the football club Metalist, and the Kharkiv National University. But not everyone knows the city as such. When Russia invaded Ukraine in 2022, the world only saw Kharkiv as a war zone. Using publicly accesible tool such as image search results, search trends and queries, the publication compares the city’s perception before and during the invasion in an attempt to recall the city as it once was.

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Last updated on 21/01/2026