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DEBORAH KHODANOVICH
Deborah Khodanovich (she/her) is a graphic designer from Toronto, currently completing her MFA in Graphic Design at Rhode Island School of Design. Her practice explores gossip as a way of producing and sharing knowledge—thinking about how women’s information networks operate and how intimacy can act as a design methodology. She works across typography, textiles, and bookbinding, making things that question who gets to create knowledge and how it moves between people. She’s interested in how we attribute ideas, the way knowledge circulates through communities, and what gets valued or dismissed. A lot of her recent work bridges craft traditions with digital systems, thinking about how tools like weaving and typography are both about structure and connection. In addition to a personal practice, Deb has taught at both RISD and OCAD University, thinking about how we share ideas and learn from each other through more collaborative projects. In her spare time, she’s obsessively knitting, baking cookies and honey cake, and spending every second she can gossiping with her close friends.
As a kid, working on my school yearbooks and coding tumblr pages for people! I was also very into fine arts, painting, drawing, and so on, and when deciding what to do for my undergrad, graphic design felt like a natural marriage of those worlds—the art and the tech.
More than anything my biggest creative influences have always been the people I’m surrounded by. My peers in my cohort. The absolutely unbelievably talented undergrads here at RISD. The textile students I’ve had classes with. My students from when I’ve TA’d and taught both here and at OCAD. All of my instructors past, present, and future.
I’m sure this isn’t as fun of an answer as [insert celebrity designer name here], but it’s just true to me. We don’t exist in a vacuum, and a large part of my thesis work at the moment is thinking about how all knowledge is co-created. My work is an amalgamation of every person I interacted with while working on it, making all those around me my biggest influences.
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