Alec Figuracion



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Alec [b. 1992] is a graphic designer + filmmaker who loves to tell stories and is exploring the many different ways he could tell one. He holds an MFA in Graphic Design from Rhode Island School of Design [2024].

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Work Index

© 2024



SOFT PROCEDURES


A final presentation of my research and thesis book in the MFA Graphic Design program at RISD.
Publication,
Video
[2024]


SECOND OPINION: ESSAYS ON HEALTH, CULTURE, AND SOCIETY


Book cover and interior design for Filipino medical anthropologist and author Gideon Lasco.
Book Design
[2024]


TROPICO OBSCURO


A motion sequence about the Filipino graphic design vernacular.
Video,
Motion
[2024]



STORIES


A website that attempts to explore the collision between database and narrative.
Website,
Video
[2023]

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SOMETIMES I FEEL LIKE WALKING


A video essay about my hometown and a counter-map of Google Street View.
Video
[2023]



THE FORGETTING SYLLABUS


A fictional archival installation about a small island in the Philippines plagued with collective amnesia.
Installation
[2023]


TENDERNESS MONTAGE


A book that attempts to take the form of the cinematic montage.
Publication
[2023]


PINOY LANE


A set of publications documenting and celebrating the only Filipino store in Rhode Island.
Publication
[2023]


PHILIPPINE INTERNET ARCHIVE


A network of objects about the collective Filipino internet experience translated from digital into material forms.
Object
[2023]



SUGAR GLASS


Presented in split-screen, this short, intimate profile about my grandmother is an attempt to tug and shape a fragment of her story and shards of her memory through two perspectives — my own and my father's.
Video
[2022]



BODIES, WAITING


A website that attempts to explore the body, time, space and motion in the milieu of waiting through film photography.
Website,
Film Photography
[2022]

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ATLAS


My 8-spread contribution to Atlas 2022, a collaborative publication between our cohort of RISD MFA Graphic Design canditates.
Publication
[2022]



BANAUE RICE TERRACES


Speculative brand identity for a UNESCO World Heritage Site, the Banaue Rice Terraces of the Philippines.
Identity
[2022]


SPRINGBOARD STUDIO


Motion Graphics made for Springboard Studio, a design-thinking and acceleration team focused in healthcare within Mass General Hospital.
Motion
[2022]


GOVERNANCE OF THE PHILIPPINES AS A REPUBLIC, 1946-2021


Some selections of motion graphic materials for a book launch campaign by the Institute of Solidarity in Asia.
Motion
[2021]