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Sako Antonyan
Editor-in-Chief
BRDD INTAR 27

Sarkis Antonyan is /ˈsɑːkoʊ/, painterly ceramic bowls, vellum, joker cards, LA literature, harissa, jewel tones, unhinged bookmarks, double-sided tape, Nightboat Books, cyanotype, thyme mocktail, chthonic, asemic writing, sunflower seeds, tassel loafers, batrachophile, perfume samples, carrot cake, burgundy nail polish, tie scarves, terrazzo, ginger shots, flow state, nana tea, optometrist appointments, jagged bangs, flâneur, scenic design, succulent king, noise, chrysanthemum, calamari, Goodreads, solitude, list poetry.


Samantha Ngai
Managing Editor
MARCH 28

Sam is out of paper and has pencils to spare. She challenges herself by moving through water and finds comfort in the ritual of making rice. On a good day, she’ll do both. She is a spatial storyteller, an aspiring architect, and a habitual morning person. Her mission to collect a copy of Le Petit Prince in the native language of every country she visits reminds her that a good story transcends language, space, and time (she currently owns 15 copies). In her work she is learning to relinquish perfection in favor of discovery, uniting her practice in asking the unanswerable. At v.1, she hopes to quell her curiosity through investigation, translation, and dreamwork.


Claudia Azalde
Editor
MFA FD 28

Claudia is an artist, writer, and furniture maker hailing from California, though she has spent all of her adult life so far in NYC. Her practice revolves around an obsession with objects and using decoration as a way of assigning meaning and care. She collects seashells and transparent items and smells like sunscreen, sea salt, gardenia oil, and jasmine tea. She knows every word of every old Shakira song and dreams of becoming a flamenco dancer.




Sara Parulekar
Lead Designer
BFA GD 27

Sara is in love with her computer. The pixel is her favorite form of mark-making in an abstracted, cybernetic way. In 1947, a moth was found trapped inside relay panel F of the Harvard Mark II computer. It slowly mutates into the whir/click/buzz/beep of a polarized component. She collects interactive websites, hyperpop sounds, and static image and would really like to build her own cyberdeck. When offline, she tends to her collection of lighters, scrapbooks, CDs, and printed matter. In her thesis year at RISD, she will continue venturing into far-off corners of the internet for some new computer-love permutations.


Faith Kaufman
Designer
MFA GD 2028

Somehow Faith left 15 minutes early, but got here 15 minutes late. She’s constantly wandering, first in her head, then in her step, and oops she missed a stop and she's taking a different route. Her head is in the clouds, watching her feet move from a mile away. She’s seeing how a simple path from point A to point B becomes stretched, twisted, modified, and wondering where that will take her next.

Zorka Zsembery
Editor-in-Chief
MARCH 27

Until about now, Zorka thought she knew a thing or two about a thing or two—she has since abandoned her search for truth and is now looking for a good fantasy. You can find her gripping onto her child-like sense of wonder or trying to speak to you in your mother tongue. She is an optimist by instinct, a philosopher by scholarship, an innocent by archetypal distinction, and a daydreamer in the most generic sense of the word. Whether she is collecting vinyl records in preparation for the apocalypse or dreaming up the B&B ranch she will run in Montana (in the case of no apocalypse), you can try to bring her back down to Earth by suggesting a trip to the botanical garden. She’s stuck in between E major and A on her borrowed acoustic guitar. She walks like this and dances like that.


Heidi Lin
Editor
BFA INTAR 27

Heidi fondly remembers every time she’s broken inertia on a new vessel: jetski, buggy pulled by a bike, the Maglev train in Shanghai. These days, she can be found climbing the Leeds theatre catwalk. Dangling sixteen-feet high, she wrestles with ellipsoidals and grapples to catch wrenches before they fall on people’s heads. The heat of a tungsten-halogen lamp is exhilarating. 


Selim Kutlu
Editor
BRDD GD 29

If you were to draw a path of Selim Kutlu’s mischievous path through the world, you’d end up to the tune of this:

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|  __  canada                              |

|        __        bulgaria                 |

|              __  turkey                    |

|                    __                          |

|                          __   australia   |

| _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _  ___ _ _ _ _|


Selim got to his first v.1 meeting this with his secondhand Schwinn road bike from the 1970s, and can be spotted in town with his bike. His path was something like this:

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| d |  |  x  a&l                                |

| o   |  __                                      |

|  w   |         __ benevolent st__x  |

|   n      |                                         |

|   t         |                                      |

| _o _ _ _ _| _ _ _ _ _ ____ _ _ _ _|






Mary-Elizabeth Boatey
Designer
BFA GD 27

Lately, Mary has been preoccupied with the grid formations of Providence’s iron gates. Somewhere between their rigid geometries and unruly oxidation, she has become interested in things that refuse to stay flat: publications that become rooms, textiles that become typography, clothes that behave like architecture, and other such transformations. As a graphic designer, origami specialist, and compulsive sipper of milk with honey, she moves between graphic, set, fashion, and spatial design. Her practice is interested in translation: paper into structure, thread into image, or the printed page into something you might walk through. Now a senior at RISD and beginning her first year with v.1, Mary hopes to fold her love of the analog into a printed publication, somewhere between a book, an object, and a world.