Lydia Chodosh




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Lydia Chodosh is a Brooklyn-based graphic designer [+ writer] who likes playing with language. She holds an MFA from the Rhode Island School of Design [2024]. 


Selected Design Work

On the Impulse to Notate
Supersaturated
To read is to
Artifactual Accumulations
Interior Atlas
Artifacts of Countability
Spore Site
RISD GD MFA Biennial
Clock Studies
Translations of Gratitude
Atlas


Art Direction

Harper’s Magazine
Volume 1
A Guide to the Politiverse


Are.na
Instagram
LinkedIn

© 2024



Editorial, Writing, Book Design, 2024Rhode Island School of Design

On the Impulse to Notate

 On the Impulse to Notate is an MFA thesis document assembling an array of dialogic encounters. It includes original writing composed in 67 notations, curated art-historical research making up 297 of the book’s images, 12 anonymously addressed letters, isolated references to 28 projects undertaken at RISD and six interviews with individuals on the subject of craft, namely poet Henri Cole, graphic designer Isabel Seiffert, and contemporary art curator Jeffrey De Blois. 

480 pages in length, this thesis was first published in book form and later designed to operate on the web. The first half of the book favors an open poetic syntax, while a comprehensive index takes up its second half. This system speaks to the manner in which the author collects and aggregates information, constantly shifting its frame. 

A  digital pdf of the book is housed online at the RISD Fleet Library.