Nico Chilla*

Website and identity designed as a freelancer for PERN, a research collaboration based out of my university which studies the economics of digital platforms.

This project presents a single text, Wittgenstein’s Tractatus, in 4 different ways, experimenting with different forms of reading and navigation.

Book designed by typesetting content from the wikipedia page for abiogenesis, described as “the natural process by which life has arisen from non-living matter.”

Typographic poster for a retrospective on photographer Moyra Davey, using sticker overlays to imitate her mail artworks.

Shakespeare’s 154 sonnets, presented as a single block of unbroken text. Visitors can browse each sonnet and learn about the body of work through filtering and editing features.

Desktop app for organizing files and ideas, which allows you to alternate between table and graph representations of the same information.

Identity system and website for a hypothetical theatre company. Rather than using a logo, excerpts from play scripts are used to conceal and reveal the name (‘the secret’) on different assets.

Studio website for a design student’s personal practice predicated on exploring the intersection of architecture and musical form.

Customizeable template for the landing page of each issue, designed to correspond with Image’s print identity system. It has been used going on 16 issues and won a bronze award from the Society of News Design.

Landing page for my college radio station, featuring an audio visualizer and track listings for student-produced media. I also designed series graphics to display on audio platforms.

Two-sided risograph booklet comparing the qualities of expression through language versus images.

Custom build for an L.A. Times profile of Afghan women facing the return of the Taliban. Built in collaboration with foreign correspondent Marcus Yam and photo editor Kate Kuo.

Narrative told through descending levels of an isometric drawing.