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What is it Actually Like? is a typographic publication built from 21 recorded conversations with graphic design students, graduates, and offer holders. Covering finances, identity, community, industry, and the gap between expectation and reality, the project documents the inner experience of design education in the words of the people living it. At a time when the narrative around higher education is largely shaped by institutions and social media, this is something different. Each interview is responded to typographically in the main publication, accompanied by 21 individual transcript booklets. The project doesn't offer a single conclusion. It offers twenty-one.
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Document constructs a speculative archive around two objects from the Cuming Collection — a Gutskin Parka and a Venetian Glass Bead sample card. Through fabricated accession cards, condition reports, dealer correspondence, internal memos, and curatorial updates accumulated over each object's lifetime in the collection, the project explores how the act of documentation itself assigns worth and value to the things we choose to keep. The way a collection records an object shapes how it is understood, remembered, and cared for — and as those records change, so does the object's place in history. Rather than telling the objects' stories directly, it examines the systems that frame them, and asks what it really means to preserve something.