Scroll(s)
Exhibition Design
2025
Exhibition, Typeface, Poster, Social Media
Scroll(s) is the 2025 Boston University MFA Graphic Design Thesis Exhibition. The title is both an object and an action, referring to historical scrolls as tools for recording and preserving knowledge, and the digital act of scrolling as a way of navigating endless streams of content. The exhibition explores this tension between the ancient and the contemporary, asking what it means to move through information, memory, and design practice today.
The twenty scrolls on display span a broad range of methodologies and forms. Some investigate typography, publishing, and interface; others deal with identity, materiality, and interactivity. Together, they form a continuous field of inquiry. Like a scroll, the work reveals itself over time—building momentum, looping back, branching off. Each project exists on its own terms, but when placed side by side, they highlight a shared sense of curiosity, movement, and evolution.
The pluralizing (s) in the exhibition’s title reflects this multiplicity. It suggests not just one scroll or one perspective, but many. The cohort’s work moves between digital and physical space, theory and application, past and future. Rather than presenting design as a fixed output, Scroll(s) frames it as an active, recursive process—one that privileges investigation over resolution, and motion over stasis.
As a member of the Visual Identity team, I developed the design of the exhibition’s custom display typeface, which is free to download at the show. The typeface draws from digital scroll bars and modular interface components, merging them with the structure of physical scrolls. It exists entirely in uppercase, with alternate lowercase forms that are more deconstructed—suggesting motion, pause, rhythm, and flow. Like the exhibition itself, the typeface operates as both system and metaphor. It reflects the layered and cumulative nature of the MFA experience: weeks of process, critique, and iteration unfurling into visible form. But it also extends an invitation, offering a typographic tool that others can use to continue scrolling forward, reshaping what comes next.