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.
10 Friends, 10 Languages,
10 Memories
Website Design
The website is dedicated to deep listening and the preservation of linguistic authenticity, serving as a vessel for voices and childhood memories. The stories are shared in their purest form shaped by one’s native tongue.
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In Dialogue with El Lissitzky: Typographic Space and Design
Editorial Design
This publication examines a dialogue between two texts by artist and designer El Lissitzky—Typographical Facts and Topography of Typography—in relation to examples from signage design.
Sublime Deception
Editorial Design
In photography, truth is constructed by what the frame includes and excludes; the space beyond it becomes the blind field. Utilizing an image from the RISD Picture Collection Library of a ten-story apartment building being demolished after it was weakened by the 1985 earthquake, the pages of The Sublime Deception act as a camera lens. They zoom in on details of the photograph before revealing the full image. Each crop mirrors the act of looking through a viewfinder: the search for a frame, but also the act of engaging with any photograph, an incomplete fragment of life.
The book attempts to fill the gaps of the blind field with contextual information provided by the library. Yet this effort remains incomplete, not only because of the archive’s limited records, but because what existed outside these frames will forever remain unseen. The Sublime Deception invites viewers to reconsider their gaze: to recognize their distance, fascination, and complicity in the act of looking, and to question the truth of the images that surround them.
Algún Día Cruzaré El Océano
Website Design | Photography | Poetry
A bilingual poetic scroll website that explores the impermanence of memory and childhood through an interplay of photography and poetry.
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Poster Design
Brand Identity
Street Furniture draws attention to the forms embedded in mundane objects: in cracks, in marks left by spills, in sun–worn surfaces, and in the objects themselves. All the items were found in Downtown Providence in 2025.
Editorial Design
¡PIKA! is a short film directed by Alex Fischman Cárdenas and produced by Fisherman & Trout in collaboration with Azurra Films. The story follows a man who wakes up in the middle of the night with an unbearable itch on his chest. When he’s unable to find a cure, he embarks on a nightmarish quest to track down a healing cream. Blending dark comedy, thriller, and surrealism, the film captures a raw sense of anxiety and emotional overwhelm.
To prepare for top-tier festival submissions, I designed a takeaway booklet. The goal is to make the film stand out on the festival circuit while also providing well–crafted, functional tools for networking with producers and sales agents.
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.
Website Design | Photography
What if we view the web as an endless street? This intriguing question is the foundation of Street Scenes, a project inspired by Rebecca Solnit's Wanderlust: A History of Walking. Street Scenes consists of two interconnected websites meticulously crafted to immerse users in the sensation of wandering through a vibrant city street.
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