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Hispanic U.S.
Based on the idea that a Hispanic identity has been part of the United States since long before the massive immigration of the last decades, this database compiles cities and towns that were once part of the Spanish monarchy or the Mexican republic, or that were named after a city, a person, or a word… — read more
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Repeated Cities U.S.
Data is a vehicle for communication. The transformation of data into visual representations is a process that lends itself to answer questions, reveal patterns, create meaning and tell stories. This computer application programmed using Processing*, visualizes a dataset containing the geographic location of cities and towns in the United States. The program runs alphabetically through… — read more
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Florida Maps
Visualization of density in Florida. — read more
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Missing the Equator
Mauris faucibus, tellus sed commodo luctus, nibh libero tristique felis, a vulputate nibh… — read more
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I am Providence
HTML, CSS, Javascript Collaboration with Jeffrey Waldman This project is a collection of people’s perceptions of Providence. We asked college students at RISD and Brown University to represent their perception of Providence by any means. We gave them a blank sheet of paper, collected their responses, categorized and published them in a website. The site… — read more
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Type in Arch
Fall 2010 7.5″ x 10.5″, 56 p. This book includes articles by El Lissitzky, Jan Tschichold, Max Bill and Virginia Smith and is illustrated with images of typography in architecture. Formally the book explores the idea of breaking the text box with geometric forms in conversation with the images. — read more
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Going Home
Spring 2012 4″ x 5.5″, 28 p. I wrote and designed this book inspired by three moments of many where I found something or someone from Colombia while living in Rhode Island. The book resembles a passport in size and proportion. The illustrations for the booklet are meant to be stamped into the book echoing… — read more
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Here is There: Places in Common and Participatory Links
Spring 2012 MFA Thesis Book 7.75″ x 9.75″, 172 p. Thesis advisors: Hammett Nurosi, Alan Rapp, Lindsay Kinkade Critics: Rob Giampietro, Liz Danzico, Marc Owens This book compiles my thinking and projects at the moment I was finishing the MFA in Graphic Design at Rhode Island School of Design. Throughout the book I describe personal… — read more
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Repeated Cities
Spring 2011 Repeated Cities Book from Camila Afanador on Vimeo. This book is a collection of homonymous cities in Spain and Latin America. As part of Latin American heritage from Spain, several cities where named after Spanish towns. A crucial part of Latin American identity is bounded inevitable to Spain, as one part of Spanish… — read more
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Local Color
Spring 2012 Project proposal Local Color is a proposal for an online publication featuring articles, essays and short stories and people’s commentaries about the history of micro communities in the state of Rhode Island. This online publication contemplates a collective generation of content, nurturing the official historical documentation. The project includes a proposal for promoting… — read more
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Re:making Architecture
Spring 2012 Client: Department of Architecture, RISD 28″ x 36″ — read more