Maine College of Art & Design
BFA Graphic Design Theses
2026

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Graphic
Design

here / still

Iris Martin


irismartin.art
@iris___elizabeth


What if a designed object could function not as a guide to presence, but as presence itself? This project includes three books, a glossary card deck, and a daily practice book, exploring how design is experienced through the body. Touch, weight, texture, pacing, and layering shape the encounter, creating space for slowness through tactility. The work grew from making as a form of healing, offering a space to reconnect to the body, to notice the breath, to feel grounded, and to let thoughts come and go without forcing change. These pieces won’t resolve anything. They stay with the reader, a companion in the act of being, inviting presence.