OLIVIA OBEN . . . is an interdisciplinary visual designer and researcher interested in exploring cultural ownership, binaries, and systems in and through graphics, design, publications, and physical media.
2024 A re-presentation of images from the Global South on Flickr as an act of agency in the age of privitization, cyber-governance, and in the hopes of digital repatriation.
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Production
Archival Studies
Research and Writing
Writing
Layout Design
2025
A short film exploring the attitudes and economy of care
surrounding colonial objects and domestic work, through personal relationships with Ate Alona Dela Guardia, who works as an all-around househelp.
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Printed Matter
3D Sculpting
Research and Writing
2023
A visual re-interpretation of L. Negrin’s “Ornament and The Feminine” through the lens of South and South East Asian cultural ornamentation and significance.
2025 Ongoing collaborative work with Designer She Carmona and Writer Daisy Redfern to explore treatments within printed and written matter for She Carmona’s BA Graduation Collection, “My Home in Paraiso.”
Read moreGraphic Design Typography Publications Research and Writing
Printed Matter
Serif 420 + HK Grotesk Regular (both by Hanken Design Co.)