Avrie Allen is an interdisciplinary designer adept at working through the full life cycle of projects—from ideation to concept and content development; from design to production.

She works: across graphic design; website development, with particular attention to archives; publications; installation and objects; visual and theoretical research; pedagogy; and writing.

She is: taking on freelance commissions for individuals and cultural, academic, and community institutions; seeking part-time or adjunct teaching positions; and working on countersense, a publication continuing her MFA thesis. You can email her at avrie.world at gmail dot com.

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Always hand-coded. Last updated July 2026.
Individual project pages coming soon.
Girlhood Arrested2026

Girlhood Arrested is a reflection on my Girlhood Zine Workshop, dualities of carcerality-punishment and play-resistance, the possibilities of girlhood as an organizing construct of self outside of incarceration, and is a transhistorical engagement with the archival gaps of women's lives and stories. See Project ↗

Collaboration with Dr. Kennedi Johnson and the Visiting Room Project
countersense2026

countersense embodies a counterhegemonic practice of sense-making; it is a practice of opening up our present conditions for critical reflection and remaking. Viewing graphic design as an interdisciplinary and expansive field of meaning-making, countersense is the framework I perform between perception and meaning-making, self and material conditions—always foregrounding what politics are chosen as a result of the personal. See Project ↗

RISD Graphic Design MFA thesis
everyday utopia2025

everyday utopia is a jacquard-woven blanket inspired by A Decolonial Feminism by François Vergès. Yik Heng Lee (RISD Textiles MFA ’26) interpreted the digital design by Jacob Marcus (RISD GD MFA '27) and me, indexing graphic pixels into woven structures and form. See Project ↗
RISD Graphic Design Triennial2024

RISD GD Triennial website I hand-coded and designed as lead with support from members of the web team. See Project ↗
RISD Graduate Studies2025

I designed custom type utilizing forms gathered from RISD graduate studio and common spaces, like Fleet Library. See Project ↗
The End of History–History of the End2025

A book of two timelines. Section 1 (white pages), The End of History, documents key events contributing to the global dominance of neoliberalism and Fukuyama's declaration of the end of history. Section 2 (black pages), History of the End, documents global acts of resistance to it—demonstrating that future alternatives have never been foreclosed. Coming Soon
On Measurement2024

On Measurement situates representations of the body from Albrecht Dürer's 1528 book Instructions on Measurement within a lineage of technologies from 1528–today that aim to capture, measure, and analyze the body. Coming Soon
The houses, the air, the streets2025

Silk organza fabric prints with text from Karen Brodine's poem, June 78. Coming Soon
Activating Networks, Gathering Knowledge2026

This course investigates how web-based archives can be used to gather inspiration and conduct research for creative practices. Taught wintersession 2026 in RISD Graphic Design department. Coming Soon
Kinsey Institute2022–24

Miscellaneous works from my time as graphic designer at the Kinsey Institute. Coming Soon
fragments of a future2025

A poster arranged by hand using June, 78 by Karen Brodine as source material. Coming Soon
Girlhood Zine Workshop2025

Dr. Kennedi Johnson and I conducted a zine workshop with formerly incarcerated narrators (including women and one trans masculine person) from the Visiting Room Project, a community archive in New Orleans, to reflect on girlhood as a tool for identity-construction outside of their experience with incarceration. Coming Soon
RISD Campus Exhibitions Gallery Brochure2025–26

Brochure design for all of RISD's on-campus gallery exhibitions. Coming Soon
Know-it-Yourself2025

An artist book about and for knowing through doing, instructing the reader to take the book apart, plant native seeds, and sew a pair of gardening gloves. Coming Soon

Collaboration with Jacob Marcus
An Empty Pedestal is an Invitation2025

Following protests and repeated vandalism of a Christopher Columbus statue in 2020, the city of Providence removed the statue from its pedestal in the Elmwood neighborhood and later gifted it to the city of Johnston, RI where it took on a reactionary cultural significance. Zines and small graphics were distributed around Elmwood, providing this history and inviting residents to submit to a digital archive, an anti-monument, imagining what histories to honor in its place. Coming Soon
luddite.com/munity2025

luddite.com/munity, a typography-driven installation, speculates on the effects artificial intelligence will have on our lived experience: our interpersonal relationships, language, labor, cognition, and culture. Set in a fictional post-Providence in 2073, it imagines the struggle of a society facing the effects of climate change but stunted by their over-reliance on artificial intelligence. Coming Soon

Collaboration with Jacob Marcus
no bread, all roses2024

I designed, filmed, and fabricated a satirical, multi-media installation exploring how the beauty industry obscures aesthetic labor through language of self-expression and play. Coming Soon

Installed in Grunwald Gallery at Indiana University
girlhood redefined2024

girlhood redefined not only seeks to showcase the multiplicity of girlhood, but practices creating knowledge and collective subjectivity from a feminist perspective. The project exemplifies the role that artists and designers, as creators and curators of knowledge, can have in this endeavor, and provides an example of how feminist epistemology relates to design practices. Coming Soon

In partnership with the Kinsey Institute and installed in Tangent Gallery at Indiana University


Client Work +
RISD Graphic Design
RISD Graduate Studies
RISD Campus Galleries
The Kinsey Institute
Self-Directed +
Girlhood Arrested
everyday utopia
The End of History–History of the End
On Measurement
The houses, the air, the streets
fragments of a future
Know-it-Yourself
An Empty Pedestal is an Invitation
luddite.com/munity
Teaching +
Activating Networks, Gathering Knowledge
Girlhood Zine Workshop
Avrie Allen is an interdisciplinary designer adept at working through the full life cycle of projects—from ideation to concept and content development; from design to production.

She works: across graphic design; website development, with particular attention to archives; publication design; installation and objects; visual and theoretical research; pedagogy; and writing.

She is: taking on freelance commissions for individuals and cultural, academic, and community institutions; seeking part-time or adjunct teaching positions; and working on countersense, a publication continuing her MFA thesis. You can email her at avrie.world at gmail dot com.



Girlhood Arrested2026

Girlhood Arrested is a reflection on my Girlhood Zine Workshop, dualities of carcerality-punishment and play-resistance, the possibilities of girlhood as an organizing construct of self outside of incarceration, and is a transhistorical engagement with the archival gaps of women's lives and stories. See Project ↗

Collaboration with Dr. Kennedi Johnson and the Visiting Room Project
countersense2026

countersense embodies a counterhegemonic practice of sense-making; it is a practice of opening up our present conditions for critical reflection and remaking. Viewing graphic design as an interdisciplinary and expansive field of meaning-making, countersense is the framework I perform between perception and meaning-making, self and material conditions—always foregrounding what politics are chosen as a result of the personal.

RISD Graphic Design MFA thesis
everyday utopia2025

everyday utopia is a jacquard-woven blanket inspired by A Decolonial Feminism by François Vergès. Yik Heng Lee (RISD Textiles MFA ’26) interpreted the digital design by Jacob Marcus (RISD GD MFA '27) and me, indexing graphic pixels into woven structures and form. See Project ↗
RISD Graphic Design Triennial2024

RISD GD Triennial website I hand-coded and designed with support from members of the web team. See Project ↗
RISD Graduate Studies2025

I designed custom type utilizing forms gathered from RISD graduate studio and common spaces, like Fleet Library.
The End of History–History of the End2025

A book of two timelines. Section 1 (white pages), The End of History, documents key events contributing to the global dominance of neoliberalism and Fukuyama's declaration of the end of history. Section 2 (black pages), History of the End, documents global acts of resistance to it—demonstrating that future alternatives have never been foreclosed.
On Measurement2024

On Measurement situates representations of the body from Albrecht Dürer's 1528 book Instructions on Measurement within a lineage of technologies from 1528–today that aim to capture, measure, and analyze the body.
The houses, the air, the streets2025

Silk organza fabric prints with text from Karen Brodine's poem, June 78.
Activating Networks, Gathering Knowledge2026

This course investigates how web-based archives can be used to gather inspiration and conduct research for creative practices. Taught wintersession 2026 in RISD Graphic Design department.
Kinsey Institute2022–24

Miscellaneous works from my time as graphic designer at the Kinsey Institute.
fragments of a future2025

A poster arranged by hand using June, 78 by Karen Brodine as source material.
Girlhood Zine Workshop2025

Dr. Kennedi Johnson and I conducted a zine workshop with formerly incarcerated narrators (including women and one trans masculine person) from the Visiting Room Project, a community archive in New Orleans, to reflect on girlhood as a tool for identity-construction outside of their experience with incarceration.
RISD Campus Exhibitions Gallery Brochure2025–26

Brochure design for all of RISD's on-campus gallery exhibitions.
Know-it-Yourself2025

An artist book about and for knowing through doing, instructing the reader to take the book apart, plant native seeds, and sew a pair of gardening gloves.

Collaboration with Jacob Marcus
An Empty Pedestal is an Invitation2025

Following protests and repeated vandalism of a Christopher Columbus statue in 2020, the city of Providence removed the statue from its pedestal in the Elmwood neighborhood and later gifted it to the city of Johnston, RI where it took on a reactionary cultural significance. Zines and small graphics were distributed around Elmwood, providing this history and inviting residents to submit to a digital archive, an anti-monument, imagining what histories to honor in its place.
luddite.com/munity2025

luddite.com/munity, a typography-driven installation, speculates on the effects artificial intelligence will have on our lived experience: our interpersonal relationships, language, labor, cognition, and culture. Set in a fictional post-Providence in 2073, it imagines the struggle of a society facing the effects of climate change but stunted by their over-reliance on artificial intelligence. 

Collaboration with Jacob Marcus
no bread, all roses2024

I designed, filmed, and fabricated a satirical, multi-media installation exploring how the beauty industry obscures aesthetic labor through language of self-expression and play.

Installed in Grunwald Gallery at Indiana University
girlhood redefined2024

girlhood redefined not only seeks to showcase the multiplicity of girlhood, but practices creating knowledge and collective subjectivity from a feminist perspective. The project exemplifies the role that artists and designers, as creators and curators of knowledge, can have in this endeavor, and provides an example of how feminist epistemology relates to design practices.

In partnership with the Kinsey Institute and installed in Tangent Gallery at Indiana University