SARAH CHIEKO BONNICKSON is a designer, artist, writer, researcher, and inquisitive person.



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SARAH CHIEKO BONNICKSON is a designer, artist, writer, researcher, and inquisitive person.



๐Ÿ“– PRINT / EDITORIAL


๐Ÿ”  TYPOGRAPHY


โš™๏ธ OBJECT / TOOL


๐Ÿ’ป WEB


๐Ÿ—ฏ๏ธ EXHIBITION




๎€Š๏ธŽ OPEN-ENDED EXPLORATION


๎ด๏ธŽ About
๎‚’๏ธŽ Contact
๎€ฅ๏ธŽ Instagram


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NEIGHBORHOOD HERBARIUM


A communally curated herbarium focused on urban weeds growing in Berkeley neighborhoods. An exercise in democratizing the way that a collection manifests: how and what material is gathered, displayed, and presented in the immediate context of a specific community.

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SELF-MODIFYING DRAWING TOOL


Modular mark-making tool that collapses the relationship between creation and defacement, gestural intent and outcome.

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TNR PRESS AND GRAPHITE


Evolving the ubiquitous typeface Times New Roman by physically inserting new context into its glyphs with analog printing methods.

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ASCII TYPE


Interactive CSS typeface built with ASCII characters and inspired by the early days of malware art.

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DECONSTRUCTED STOCK PHOTO ALBUM


Handmade photo album that physically fragments stock images to consider the ways in which normative representations shape social narratives.

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DRAWING MACHINE: DIALOGUE


A machine refashioned using components from obsolete devices. Created to reconsider the value of the base material and mechanisms, in the service of something poetic rather than the drive to extract efficiency and utility.

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DRAWING MACHINE: ARCHIVE


A drawing machine built around themes of time and loss. The machine itself consists of a plain outer box, concealing an inner system of moving magnetic belts.

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FLUID MUTUALISM


Base visual language and graphics for an annual college-wide initiative at California College of the Arts, created for the theme of โ€œFluid Mutualismโ€.

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WEโ€™AVE THE PEOPLE


A web exhibition and print publication to document twelve ritual actions performed synchronously across three different time zones.

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EDITION: PERSONAL/SOCIAL


An edition of nine where each copy was personalized to its recipient. Each person received a set of objects embedded with evocative words that could be sculpturally tessellated to explore associations and connotations within a private or shared lexicon.

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OVERPRINT RETROSPECTIVE


Exhibit showcasing six yearsโ€™ worth of student-generated ephemera at California College of the Arts.

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ยฉ SCB 2022โ€”