Azusa Kobayashi コバヤシアヅサ
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Falling, 3D model poster series, 2012
Falling, 3D model poster series, 2012
Delay, poster announcement for workshop, 2013
With Julia Novitch.
Future--Perfect, Issue 1: Loading,
periodical, 2013—ongoing
With Julia Novitch.
Perspecta 46: Error, The Yale Architectural Journal
Published by MIT Press August 2013
With Ryan Weafer.
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A Catalog of Publications in Space, Supposed and Recalled, book, 2012
A speculative catalog for the seminal publications in the history of design and architecture. History is presented here as a gradual transition—with the occasional repetition, skipping, and false starts. The publications pass through this portal of time, to be lost, remembered, cherished.
You Lack the Lac, poster annoucment for pop-up nail bar, 2012
You Lack the Lac, pop-up nail bar, 2012
You Lack the Lac, pop-up nail bar, 2012
Polish, Play, Repeat, video, 2012
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You Lack the Lac, book, 2012
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MEMORIAL, object, 2011
A produced-on-demand memo block that is its own memento—an accumulation of collective memory which is then taken apart to hold one’s personal memory.
MEMORIAL, book, 2011
A mail-order catalog for MEMORIAL, a produced-on-demand memo block that is its own memento.
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Glaucous, typeface, 2011
Typeface based on the eroded inscriptions found at Yale University's Civil War Memorial, dedicated in 1915. The name glaucous derives from the blue and gray colors of the two armies, memories of whom have been rubbed away over time to become indistinguishable.
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OVER/SHADOW, proposal for a junction between two separate flows, 2011
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Whispers in the Wind, interactive, 2011/2012
Blowing in tweets from your vicinity, based on wind direction and wind speed of your current location.
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Standard State, interactive, 2012
It may be possible to set these photos right again, or it may not be; but for a brief moment it offers an escape, and also, a new-found normalcy within the disorientation. A response to the Tohoku Earthquake in Japan, March 11, 2011.
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Original Copy, book, 2012
Documentation of a photographic conversation between two designers. The exchange and the documentation are investigations into modes of repetition inherent in photography, both in its act and as an object—acknowledging from the start that there is no original copy of a photograph.
With Julia Novitch.
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AZUSA 2.0, interactive, 2013
With Brendan Griffiths.
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Tomorrow, olfactory objects, 2011
An experiment in what tomorrow might smell like.
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AA && XX && MM, 2012
Proposal for an algorithmic narrative model based on L'Année dernière à Marienbad by Alain Resnais. The video, comprised entirely of found footage, is an illustration of this model.
AA && XX && MM, 2012
Proposal for an algorithmic narrative model based on L'Année dernière à Marienbad by Alain Resnais. The video, comprised entirely of found footage, is an illustration of this model.
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Asir [new] Ainu, 2012
An exploration in reviving a dying language, by way of establishing a standardized phonetic notational system to turn an oral language into a written one.
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00:00:30;00, video, 2011
The mobile camera as a portal and a porthole. Travelling farther and faster than we could, it records its own acceleration and contraction.
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A Conversation About Books, poster, 2012
Announcement of a lecture by Irma Boom.
With Julia Novitch.
thesis.indd, e-book, 2012
A work-in-progress e-book about a work in progress.
With Julia Novitch.
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Calorie Mate x 24, book, 2010
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Azusa Kobayashi is a graphic designer based in New York. She holds an M.F.A. in Graphic Design from Yale School of Art, and a B.A. in Art History from Williams College.

She can be reached via email at azusa.kobayashi@gmail.com.