Portfolio Exhibition
–  The Exhibition Format and its Potential for
Showcasing Graphic Design Work and Practice

2023
Master Thesis completed during my MA in Visual Communication Design at Aalto University, Finland.

My research explores how portfolio-related characteristics and processes can translate to the exhibition format to showcase a graphic designer’s work and contribute to an expanded notion of graphic design practice. The thesis comprises four sections combining theoretical and artistic research.

Download PDF here.
Filed under:
Writing, Research, Layout

Advisor:
Tuukka Kaila

Supervisor:
Arja Karhumaa

Printworks
Ongoing
Monoprints on 60x80 Munken Pure.

Exploration of colours and composition using freehand serigraphy printing.

Dear Sincerely
Ongoing
Dear Sincerely explores conversation as a form of knowledge production. Its pages encase 12 letters adressed to friends around the world, each focussing on a specific topic. As part of the book, the letters are available to an unknown audience, thus inhabiting an ambivalent space between the private and the public. 

Apart from the letters, the book includes 12 stamps featuring patterns found in commercial envelopes.

Edition of 20, Pages printed on Risograph, Dustjacket printed in Serigraphy 

Fragments
2021
Fragments is a series of six booklets. The first three – Collected Words – consist of a collection of text fragments that explore topics related to artistic research, publishing and curating. The other three booklets document three exhibitions I curated in my home, changing the context of the living room to that of the White Cube, the Wunderkammer and the Studio.

Alltogether, Fragments fuses ideas, topics and knowledge gained from the readings with my personal archive of collected images and objects. The publication makes visible the exercise of arranging and re-arranging thoughts and material on paper and in space.

Edition of 20, Printed on Risograph

Poems of the Sea
2023
Poems of the Sea explores how context and means of presentation change the perception of objects. Chalk pebbles found in Margate were photographed in a set resembling the traditional white cube gallery. Through this, the sculptural qualities of the objects were accentuated and the viewer left to question origin, size and value.

The catalogue of these readymade sculptures remains deliberately stripped back, providing the reader with almost no information. Instead the focus lays on the tactile experience of the pages and the sculptural forms of each pebble. 

Edition of 20, Digital Print, Japanese Binding




©Amelie Scharffetter