Raquel Kalil

Raquel is a senior designer who visualizes digital and physical experiences by mixing image-making processes.


🐙 currently at argodesign
🇺🇸 Salvadoran-American
🇳🇱 based in Amsterdam, Netherlands

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Raquel Kalil

Raquel is a senior designer who visualizes digital and physical experiences by mixing image-making processes.


🐙 currently at argodesign
🇺🇸 Salvadoran-American
🇳🇱 based in Amsterdam, Netherlands

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LinkedIn
Instagram



︎︎︎ and now, an archive of select experiments and installations 


Portals/ Orbits/ Scape/ Holes/ Land

Portals/ explores landscape form through abstract imagemaking. It was a limited edition publication in collaboration with Megan Lynch sold at SF Art Book Fair.

Hand. Food. Mouth. 

Hand. Food. Mouth is a publication about eating and wasting in the public domain. The work is composed of generative design research and eating performances that map the relationship between the body and the meal.  

Trash Cam

Trash Cam is an ongoing catalog of waste seen throughout my day-to-day and travels. Check out wastefutures for recent captures.

Memory Plastique

Memory Plastique is a choreography of hands and plateforms (made from vacuum forming experiments).

Cradle

Cradle is a plate-form series made from collecting people’s lunch packaging by stacking those forms to create new mass-objects. The artefacts are aranged to reflect the forms used for eating and wasting in the public domain. 

CCA Curator’s Award, 2018
La Comida es Medicina, 2018
CCA Commencement Show, 2018
Craft of Use Exhibition, 2017

Past Futures, an edible insect dinner
 
This pop up event hosted by Don Bugito aimed at creating a dialogue for guests to taste pre-colombian ingredients with insects as sustainable protein futures. The poster-menu was designed for guests to take home as a memento of this eating experience. 

Menu designed exclusively for the February 8, 2018 dinner at O2 Artisans Aggregate, Oakland California

Hybrid Phonics

Hybrid Phonics is a multi-sensory transcription of 26 letters spoken in four languages. The goal of this experiment is to [de]construct the phonetic alphabet into a new graphic language that is both visual and audible.

STA 100 Awards


5 Interventions

5 Interventions re-visits five unique sensory art installations that have taken place at the Barcelona Pavilion. Inspired by architectural documents that have been used to rebuild the pavilion, this publication doubles as a blueprint for constructing a web version of itself.