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currently graduating Graphic Design Bachelor at Kabk, The Hague.
[click here to download a CV]maja.usak@gmail.com
3438708@kabk.nl
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HI I'M MAJA USAK!
GRAPHIC DESIGN, IMAGE-MAKING, CODING, COLLECTING, EDITING.
My work circles around printed matter, image-making, and physical installation, often using re-production as a subject. I tend to collect, edit, crop, put together and put apart again, move between digital and analogue. I'm drawn to found imagery and its circulation, and to what happens when an image changes surface, format, or context.
[01] thesis research
visual research for my bachelor thesis.
[02] internship
a poster I've made while looking for an internship...
[03] sparkly speedos and bashed faces
essay and publicationexploring violence as an extension of masculinity and it’s relation to language and politics of wrestling- in comparison to drag and performance arts. comparing,contrasting, cropping, researching: DRAG AND WRESTLING
[04] tablecloth.ottf
two variants of a cursive font and two posters designed around it.
[05] carol seajay
assignment: publish a [part] of a transcription from Suzanne Snider interviews with women in print. The first section of the book contains images I gathered from different sources of places mentioned by Carol, to visualise the life in America during those times. Second, is all about the Lesbian Households - a collective active in San Francisco during the 70’s and 80’s, that walked around and took pictures of lesbians and their living situations as well as everyday life. Last part is an homage to the Feminist Bookstore News, a publication led by Carol.
[06] e-“rot”ic@3
ZINE made from a part of “Utopia” by Bernadette Mayer, compiled with cutouts from Lost and Found magazine and “PEOPLE TELL STORIES ABOUT SEX” textile piece in collaboration with Theodora Fisher, where we took the title from a quote “whales tell stories about sex” as a way to demystify sex and put it up next to collected and written down fragments of conversations about funny one night stand stories, jokes about mini skirts, complicated situation-ships and others of sort.
[06] swimming pool merch
[01] riso animations
mix media animation of 3D characters. Made in Blender, printed in riso and scanned again.
[02] work for @8i3oo
product animations for 8i3oo
[03] surveillence
sketch for a project about surveillance, combining 3D scans,looped audio from a contact mic and video footage recorded in The Hague.
[04] catalogue
Depth extracted images, 3D printed and covered in metallic spray paint representing a catalogue of a collection of book from Best Dutch Book Design focused on textures, patterns and photographic repetiton.
[05] resin print
sculpted 3D character printed in resin.
[06] character design
sculpted 3D character, pixelated.
[01] my grandpa was a pigeon messenger
[02] thesis website