Isometric Studio

Waqas Jawaid

Waqas Jawaid
Partner, Isometric Studio (New York)
Waqas is an SEGD 2020 Global Design Award recipient and was a featured presenter at SEGD Exhibition and Experience Event. His work as a partner at Isometric Studio focuses on designing a more inclusive contemporary culture.

Waqas Jawaid
Isometric Studio
New York City

Andy Chen

2021 Exhibition + Experience SEGD Vanguard

Andy Chen, Partner, Isometric Studio

Andy is a partner at Brooklyn-based Isometric Studio where he leads a seven-person team alongside Waqas Jawaid. Isometric unites graphic design and architecture to create empowering visual identities and spatial experiences.

Andy Chen, Partner at Isometric Studio
Isometric Studio
Brooklyn, NY

Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month, 2022

Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month, 2022

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SEGD strives to celebrate projects that inspire and improve the human experience, including those that reflect the narratives of traditionally underrepresented communities. The Japanese American National Museum’s new core exhibition, designed by SEGD member firm Ralph Appelbaum Associates, will tell the Japanese American story like it’s never been before.

Changing Design Methodologies

 

Traci Sym, Founding principal at +&>. As an experience designer, Traci’s approach explores the emotion and intent of design, examining the perspectives, arcs, and interactions of audiences to enable environments and systems that feel both familiar, yet provocative.

Waqas Jawaid, Partner, Isometric Studio. Isometric unites graphic design and architecture to create empowering visual identities and spatial experiences, advancing an ethos of inclusion, equity, and justice, centering the lived experiences of marginalized people. 

Princeton International Atrium

Finalist 2020
Princeton International Atrium

To commemorate the new Louis A. Simpson International Building, we were asked to create a distinctive spatial identity that celebrates Princeton University’s international approach to education and research. We designed a floor installation that spans three levels and 7200 sq. ft., featuring quotations from global authors. The concentric pattern comprises thousands of dots, lines, and silver vinyl letters sealed beneath permanent coats of epoxy and matte polyurethane to appear engraved directly onto the tile.

Historic Morven: A Window Into America's Past

Finalist 2020
Historic Morven: A Window Into America's Past

Spanning six galleries and 200 years, "Historic Morven: A Window Into America’s Past" is a permanent exhibition at Morven Museum & Garden that tells the story of America through the history of the house. The exhibition includes stories of its most famous dwellers—founding fathers, entrepreneurs, and New Jersey governors—but also, for the first time, poignant and heroic accounts of women revolutionaries, people of color, servants, and slaves.

Equity and Justice in the COVID Age

Equity and Justice in the COVID Age

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Throughout February, SEGD is focusing on the importance of experience design and experience designers to amplify, celebrate and bring Black culture and history to the forefront. To do this, we are sharing a curated weekly series of video presentations from 2020 featuring designers in our SEGD community speaking about their roles in presenting difficult historical topics while engaging audiences through specific design strategies. Next up, on February 17, is “Equity and Justice in the COVID Age” presented by Andy Chen and Waqas Jawaid of Isometric Studio.

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