Andrea Mato
Andrea Mato is a multidisciplinary graphic designer. Her work ranges from editorial and identity design to exhibition design and creative coding. With a deep interest in the intersection of graphic design and photography, she holds a BFA in Photography from Parsons School of Design and is currently pursuing an MFA in Graphic Design at the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD), where she continues to expand her multifaceted practice.
scale journal , issue no. 1
Editorial Design
Brand Identity
The built environment ranges in scale from a wooden step stool to a vast urban landscape. scale journal is a publication bridging various disciplines at Brown University and Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) interested in the built environment. Promoting writing and projects that explore belonging and space, scale journal amplifies underrepresented voices in both academic and lived experience.
RISD Graphic Design
Triennial Identity
Exhibition Identity Design
Expiration Date explores the relationship between graphic design and time, particularly in the digital age. While design has always been ephemeral, digital obsolescence adds new challenges. The exhibition examines the fleeting nature of images, questions authorship, and reconsiders design in shifting contexts.
The visual identity extendeds across posters, flyers, a dedicated website, exhibition graphics, vinyl installations, and Instagram content.
Every Time I Conjure A Stone,
I Throw It
Brand Identity
Poster Design
To look through a lens is to break something open. For the 2025 iteration of RISD’s Photography Graduate Biennial, Every Time I Conjure a Stone, I Throw It, MFA candidates turn photography from a means of observation into an instrument of transformation. The title, drawn from Alice Walker’s The Color Purple, evokes the power of intentional release and return—a dual act that reverberates through the artists’ practices.
Algún Día Cruzaré El Océano
Web Design
Photography
Poetry
A bilingual poetic scroll website that explores the impermanence of memory and childhood through an interplay of photography and poetry.
Link to Website
2025 Compendium
Editorial Design
A compendium of work from 2023 to 2025, this book features layered page sizes and a typographic progression throughout the book. Each project is introduced with a visual snippet that offers a glimpse into its content.