Marble patterns and abstracted temples in Ghazaal Vojdani’s graphic design

Since we last featured Ghazaal Vojdani she’s graduated from an MFA at Yale and been making great work for the likes of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and working with designer Mark Owens on the Whitney Biennial catalogue. Having picked up a job designing for Yale’s publishing arm straight out of college, Ghazaal has now re-located to New York to work freelance.

Her posters for the Tisch Galleries and the Rooftop Commissions at the Met put text and image on an equal footing, working them together as part of a cohesive pattern. The content is abstracted and reconfigured, not losing meaning but taking on another form and identity that is clearly Ghazaal’s. Her design for the 2014 Whitney Biennial catalogue references school marble patterns in pastel shades and lays out the contents with their image references, making order of the inherent thematic chaos. Alongside her design practice she has been working on exhibition projects and collaborations, publications and lots of digital drawing experiments. Ghazaal’s work is quiet and confidently learned, and she conveys a rigorous understanding of her subject without ever over-egging the concepts.