Author: Elena Grossman

Elena Grossman is an artist and educator practicing visual art, graphic design, and programming for exhibition spaces, print, and screen media. Learn more about Elena

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The Decay of Lying

dialogue with selected passages by Vivian in larger type; see excerpt below for full text
Vivian and Cyril on the relationship between art and nature in “The Decay of Lying” by Oscar Wilde

‘She is our creation.’

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Magazines

Yale Entrepreneur magazine

YE May 2004 cover featuring students in conversation
Yale Entrepreneur magazine, May 2004 cover

Publication: Yale EntrepreneurIssue: May 2004Trim: 8.5 × 11 inSelection: Cover, pages 24–25, 28–29

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Posters

Magnolia, Snake Eyes, and Code Inconnu

Magnolia, a P.T. Anderson film; Claudia portrait overlapping other characters
Poster for Magnolia (1999), by Paul Thomas Anderson

Three kinds of Convealment

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Magazines

ROM: The Romance Culture Magazine

ROM, Spring 2004 cover featuring kinetic abstract
ROM: The Romance Culture Magazine, Spring 2004 cover

Publication: The Romance Culture MagazineIssue: Spring 2004Trim: 8 × 11 inSelection: Cover, pages 6–7, 20–21

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Artspace gallery banners

For the Birds, Foreign/Domestic, and Mythical Nation banners for Artspace
Banners for three “untitled(space)” shows at Artspace in New Haven, Connecticut

Environmental graphics for three exhibitions.

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The World As India

facing pages in first half use collage with knocked out letters spelling “The World As India” while facing pages in second half use filled-in letter negatives spelling “aidnI sA dlroW ehT”
The World As India book design: first half, center spread, and second half (index)

A map the size of the territory.

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Harshless Typography

cover and interior spread in Cooper Black and Helvetica Rounded; see second quote in Excerpts below for full text
Harshless Typography: The Post-Barb Movement

No more words-that-look-like-weapons as weapons.

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Posters

The All-Cookie Diet

common cookie ingredient icons from “alkali“ to “yellow 6 lake”
The All-Cookie Diet (2014 revision)

Nutrition when ‘sandwich’ is in the name

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Magazines

Cabinet Magazine

Cabinet, Fall 2001 cover featuring lion sculpture detail
Cabinet Magazine, Fall 2001 cover

Cabinet Magazine, Fall 2001 (#4): designed in collaboration with Richard Massey, Hilites for Children, and Jessica Green.

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Posters

The Guggenheimlich Maneuver

first aid for the… Choking Victim: The GUGGENHEIMLICH MANEUVER
The Guggenheimlich Maneuver (2001)

What to look for in victims of overwhelming architecture