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ZANDER CONNALLY
Zander Connally is a Detroit-based communication designer finishing his degree in Communication Design and Strategy at CCS. His work gravitates toward publication design, branding, motion, typography, and print, always exploring the tension between structure and experimentation. He’s drawn to the space where legibility brushes up against illegibility, where play meets constraint, and where the grid becomes a tool for both order and disruption.
Zander hopes to one day run his own print and publication focused studio, championing traditional processes like risograph printing and celebrating the physicality of design. He aims to be one of the voices pushing back against the so-called death of print, bringing a fresh, unapologetically tactile perspective to the field, and reminding the world that print isn’t ending; it’s evolving.
Hue to Hue // A Design Archive is the project that solidified my love for publication and print, and remains one of my proudest typographic accomplishments. The book is a curated archive of design pieces I consider “good,” organized through a continuous chain of linked color that guides the viewer page to page. The final result, over 100 pages, printed and bound, was more than a finished object; it was a deep exploration of complex typographic systems and the kind of meticulous, process-driven thinking that made me fall in love with the medium.
To me, “good design” doesn’t have a single definition, it shifts from person to person, shaped by taste, bias, and experience. But in my eyes, good design is carefully curated, thoughtfully explored, and delightfully unexpected. It bends grids, transcends hang lines, and isn’t afraid to misbehave a little. Good design invites play, embraces authenticity, and radiates with hue.
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