For the 2011 Graduate Thesis Exhibiton, the Graphic Design Department choose to display our work through a catalog, which was exhibited as our contribution to the show. Our show was the catalogue, which was also the show. View and download the show at theurloftheshow.com.

In collaboration with Salem Al-Qassimi, Jane Androski, Hope Chu, Eliza Fitzhugh, Jessica Greenfield, Lynn Kiang, Seung Chan Lim, Sara Raffo, Benjamin Shaykin, Erika Tarte, Dimitry Tetin, Olivia Verdugo, Emily Sara Wilson.

Photography by Dimitry Tetin.

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Hunter Chardonnay 2010 Wine Labels.

Various posters completed at RISD, ranging in size from 18" x 24" to A0.

Optik is a typeface based on impossible shapes. The letterforms play with the illusion of depth and space, creating visual paradoxes that cause cognitive misunderstandings. The typeface is based off of Futura because of its geometric principles, and is named Optik for its german roots.

Screen Print is a series of screenprinted posters about the process of making screenprinted posters and its relationship to digital technology. Posters were printed at the Iskra Print Collective January 2011.

A collection of Bad Ideas that can't/won't work but are way too good to let go. For a quarter you can purchase a bad idea, which includes a contract on the opposite side to sign your name and date, completing the transfer of title.

Congrats everyone, we made it! End of the line, or is it? You either believe it is, or you don't.

Presented in a split-screen format, Camera 1 / Camera 2 consists of two cameras and two subjects. Throughout the video, one half of the screen provides a view of the subject, while the other half shows what the subject himself is filming. Non-linear in format, the vignettes within the video offers extended views of singular moments.

In collaboration with Marc Choi.

Highway is a book documenting the recently destroyed section of highway running through downtown Providence in 2010. The images were pixelated in reference to abandonware, or the discontinued support for outdated software, such as the urban planning game Sim City.

End Beginning takes two forms of communication, text and image, and experiments with interpretation. Words are paired with opposing images, creating an unclear relationship that contradicts itself. The book starts from slightly awkward relationships and ends with far more obscure pairings...
at the beginning.

Visual Prose is a ongoing series of quick experiments in collages/ patterns/textures, created as a visual exercise in between work.

Experiments with color and sound.

Mat Stevens is a graphic designer living in San Francisco, CA. He has a deep interest in print and interactive design, and is always thinking of new ways to combine the two.

Since moving to SF, he has worked freelance for Burton Snowboards, Landor, and Calypso Technologies. Previously he has worked for Pentagram, Reebok, RISD, and JDK Design. He was also the studio manager and screenprinter at Iskra, a screenprinting collective based in Burlington, VT.

He received his MFA in graphic design from RISD in 2011,
and he is very excited about the future.

mat [at] matstevens.com
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