ENYA 佳懿 PAN
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Enya Pan is an interdisciplinary designer, research rabbit hole enthusiast, and recent Brown|RISD Dual Degree Program graduate.

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© 2024 by Enya Pan

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In case of loss, please return to:

// MAY 2025
// RISD GRAPHIC DESIGN DEGREE PROJECT DATA
WEB CONCEPTUAL
 Loss is our first lesson in mystery. It teaches us that not everything can be saved, stored, or held, that systems of logic- the foundation of life as we currently know it have limits. We learn that sometimes, what's most human is what we cannot explain. In case of loss, please return to: is an exploration of loss not as absence, but as a site of emotional residue, where we can only feel what we feel after we have lost what we lost. To truly understand the world we live in is to acknowledge that a lot of it is a beautiful mystery.

Inspired by Craigslist's 'missed connections' ad postings, this project seeks to create a space to gather those fragments of time, where people can share what they've lost, turning this collection into a living archive of what slips away and the ways we reach for it. You can leave something here, and maybe someone else will find it; you can find something here, and while it may not be yours, it may pierce the heart and feel strangely familiar. This digital-turned-physical archive grows with each entry, each act of surrender, each quiet attempt at either holding on or letting go.

To lose is to live. And sometimes, to find is not to recover, but to discover to stumble across what we didn't know we were seeking. What is lost can be found; or, perhaps, not all that is lost wants to be found. Maybe that's what this is: a gathering of echoes, a love letter to everything we couldn't hold on to, a goodbye to what once was.







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The Lawnmower Museum 

// MAY 2024
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TYPE The British Lawnmower Museum is England’s foremost garden machinery collection, multi-award winning unique museum of over 250 restored machines. Adapting this to the US, the fresh new supergreen lawns offered an escape from monochrome life in the cities—a brightly-colored consistent landscape that mirrored the aesthetic and racial uniformity of 1950s suburbia, where a perfect lawn became the very symbol of the American Dream and suburban success in post-WWII America.

In designing the identity system, I deconstructed the museum to arrive at the following themes: cutting grass, cookie-cutter homogeneity, and the anti-lawn movement where the act of lawnmowing becomes inherently political.






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Panasonic Lumix: The Beauty in the Ordinary

// MAY 2024
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MOTION TYPEInspired by Nikon’s “Natural Intelligence" campaign that showcases unbelievable natural images taken with our cameras in response to keyword prompts like those used in artificial intelligence, I designed a campaign for Panasonic’s Lumix digital cameras that highlights the one thing that is irreplaceable by AI: the beauty of small things that captures the authenticity of real life. AI is deeply limited because of its lack of serendipidity: while it’s easy to create a bombastic prompt, such as “multicolored surreal mini volcanoes erupting water like a fountain”, it’s virtually impossible to achieve what’s easily achievable with a real camera: small details of your daily life, often overlooked, seen in a different way. This campaign promotes the use of the camera for capturing the raw, authentic, mundane aspects of our everyday lives through the usage of blurry but heartfelt hand-held shot images and videos.


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Phonetics-Based Machine Orthography

// MAY 2024
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In orthography in linguistics, letterforms all fall into a horizontal and vertical grid. This experiment explores how machines interpret the English language based on phonetics alone (a human sense) and present that machine-generated language visually. The goal is to see if two separate AI models would be able to interpret their self-generated letterforms and answer the question: Can machines form languages and orthographic writing systems based on phonetics in the same way humans do?

Step 1: Converting from text to image. I wrote a script that extracts phonemes from the English language and utilized stable diffusion machine learning algorithms to iterate over the prompt ““Create an image that sounds like the letter ‘_’ in the English alphabet” 100 times for each letter in the English alphabet. In total, 2,600 letterforms were generated during this process.
Step 2: Converting from imge to text. These letterforms were then fed into an alt text generator to generate text descriptions for each of the images. I finally compared the text descriptions with the original letter inputted into the prompt to test the accuracy of text-to-image generation and image recognition.




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MillerKnoll Workplace Research Library

// APR 2024
BRANDING
 MillerKnoll is a workplace furniture brand that is driven by design and inspired by how people interact with their environments, and in turn how those environments impact what they do. Its Workplace Research Library explores the connection between workspace design and human behavior, health and performance, and ergonomics and sustainability. 

In creating a new brand identity for the Workplace Research Library, my system is inspired by the manila folders we use daily because of their content-agnostic, timeless, and versatile nature. These become an expandable motif for the identity while encapsulating the themes of modernity, functionality, and flexibility that remain consistent with the current MillerKnoll brand.






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An Interview w/ Talia Cotton

// MAR 2024
PUBLIn a 49 minute interview with Talia Cotton, Hannah Jeong and I chatted with her about her graphic design, coding, and teaching practices, touching on topics such as the founding of her studio (cotton.design) after her departure from Pentagram, her outlook on code’s “fullest potential”, and past and future projects she’s worked on and is excited about.



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(Super)(Star)Sh*t Cities

// DEC 2023
MOTION
A critique on the affordable housing crisis in “superstar cities”, described to be more desirable places to live, attracting higher-income households which then inadvertently reinforce that housing prices stay prohibitively high. They are the cities that have a combination of high wages and high rents that cause them to be disproportionately home to labor market superstars.



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The Marías, “Hush”

// OCT 2023


MOTION
An animated poster for the song “Hush”, using both digital and analog collage methods to create a motion accompaniment to the lyrics. 



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Filler Words In My 1-Hour Conversations

// OCT 2023
DATA
Fillers words such as um or uh are words, sounds, or phrases people use to “fill in” empty spaces in communication, often used to fill up the silence. More often than not, they’re unintentional; we use them subconsciously to fill the space or time while we prepare our main message. However, these are also disruptions in what would otherwise be fluid conversation.

My goal was to track those discourse markers in speech—mine included—for a week, analyzing how usage of filler words change in different contexts and when speaking in other languages. This data is then consolidated into a visualization that explores representing more nuanced visualizations of information, illuminating the small, often ignored details of our everyday lives.





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The Produce Market Around the Corner

// MAR 2023
CONCEPTUAL
For me, there is nothing more evident of contemporary urban China’s new-build gentrification than the food stalls leaving the markets in my grandmother’s district in Beijing. Each disappearance foreshadows the following lower income displacement in adjacent residential communities. The local road-side produce and wet markets hold a special place in my family’s hearts, and each disappearing stall creates a void that can never be filled.







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Everything I Once Knew

// FEB 2023
MOTION
Hand-drawn and cutout animation depicting the most painful loneliness I’ve ever felt when entering college during the peak of COVID isolation. Dedicated to my mother and all the other mothers out there in the world. 

SPECS: 2,160 frames, 24 frames/second
MUSIC: Claire de Lune (sped-up version)





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Sonic Music Fest

// DEC 2022
BRANDINGMOTIONIdentity design and visual system for makeshift music festival that features brown, white, blue, and pink noise. The design system was created from randomized design choices, with the final matrix consisting of 4 colors, 3 shapes, and 2 typefaces. Of the 3 shapes, I used the tiny blobs as pixels to form letters/shapes; from this, I created new colors by layering the pixels in various angles and changing the background color. This pixelated and layering effect continues throughout the system and manifests in other applications as well (poster, website).




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Kaybug Music Festival

// APR 2022
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MOTION
WEB
 Identity system for a three-day fictional music festival inspired by Y2K style, which features distinct aesthetic tastes that encapsulate fashion, hardware design, and music with “tech optimism”: techno fonts, optimistic and loud colors, gradients and drop shadows, and psychedelic patterns influenced by the dropping of acid.

The name comes from the Y2K (the year 2000, or Kaybug) bug, also known as the Millennium bug, where computers failed to change the date in the transition from December 31, 1999, to January 1, 2000. This informs the concert dates, which go from December 29th to December 31st, ending exactly at 11:59 pm right before the date turns to January 1, 2023.




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Diary of a Synesthete

// MAY 2022
CONCEPTUALA tactile book that incorporates a third sense into this exploration of synesthesia — touch. The layered natural muslim fabric, duck canvas, and embroidery thread entices the viewer to interact with the letters, while each page carries a specific weight depending on the number of letters on a page and how small or tightly-placed the letters are woven.



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Wild Typography

// NOV 2021
TYPE CONCEPTUAL An alphabet asembled using typography from signage and other found obejcts around Providence showcasing the letterforms and field notes collected.

My Wild Typography centers around my childhood memories documented by my parents. Growing up in both the US and China, they have always taken videos of our everyday lives, capturing the most minute and mundane moments that I now treasure immensely. However, these videos stopped after I turned 10, which makes the memories that they have captured even more dear to me than ever.