Nina Gozzi is a New England-based artist primarily practicing graphic design. She is currently pursuing her MFA at Boston University, where she studies Sustainable Design. Nina’s main mediums of work in graphic design are editorial, risography, and screen printing.
Her latest project, Plant Me After Reading, aims to define sustainability on a personal level within the framework of accountability, ethics, and growth. She comments; “The future of our planet is at stake and as graphic designers, we need to welcome resources such as education, innovation, and design to empower us to be active agents of change. It is vital to acknowledge the need for an environmentally mindful future and find ways to work responsibly with our craft. Designers should believe they can contribute to meaningful change through their work in both their own practice and profession.”
For Nina, social responsibility is not about stopping existing, designing, or limiting creativity, but rather, acting with responsibility and understanding design as a relational practice to everything and everyone else. “It can feel extremely overwhelming trying to navigate ways to make a change. Practicing social responsibility isn’t necessarily about macro movements, but rather small entry points,” says the designer.
Plant Me After Reading looks to break down ideas into their most basic form and then reconstruct them in new and different ways. Nina turns to entry points and micro-movements to implement small changes into her practice and attempt to recontextualise what surrounds her. Recognising the importance of sustainable pedagogy within graphic design is essential to Plant Me After Reading. Also, at the level of professional practice, Nina looks for ways to take an active stance as a steward and model leadership that can be meaningful.
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