2022

Kaja Moll

Hello! I'm Kaja [k ah y ah], a multidisciplinary designer based in London.

My main interests are typography, editorial, generative design and creative coding. I like to think about myself as a concept-driven designer – my main focus is not necessarily the media itself, but the idea that goes behind every project.

Having completed my internship in a social design studio based in Amsterdam, I developed a great interest in designing for change. My dream job would be to design for a good cause, seeing how my work has a good impact on the world we live in.

Barricades

The project Barricades explores the topic of the border as conceptual spaces between people. Inspired by global events, I decided to investigate the theme of borders on a local scale. To understand better the reasoning behind building walls and barricades, I have documented my neighbourhood around Bermondsey, London. Using a film camera, I photographed both robust and more subtle types of borders – walls, gates, fences.

That's how the publication Barricades was created. This 108-paged, hardcover album assembles the photographs I took while documenting my neighbourhood. All pictures are shot on black & white film to maintain neutrality and authority of the images. The book is perfect bound and the hardcover is handmade using traditional bookbinding techniques.

In this publication, I invite the reader to step into these mysterious spaces in between borders. As a viewer, but also a passer-by, the reader can reflect on how these everyday images affect our lives and perception of freedom. Because whenever we're local to a place or a stranger, we always cross some kind of border.

The Pain Project

The Pain Project is a year-long project in which I attempted to visualise pain. My idea was to create a universal tool for people in physical pain that would help them to express their pain and communicate it to others.
What inspired me for this project is the general difficulty to describe pain – especially for people who suffer from chronic pain and experience it on daily basis. Through the visual representation of pain, I wanted to respond to this issue in a creative way.

The features of pain I looked at are temperature (hot/cold), quality (blunt/sharp), distribution (localized/widespread), and timing (sudden/gradual). I created a Figma prototype to better illustrate the flow of this tool and what users can expect from it.

The outcome of this project is an online tool that creates a visual representation of the user's experience of pain. By adjusting specific qualities of pain with a slider, the person in pain can create a custom visual that represents the way they feel. By this, I wanted to facilitate their communication with medical professionals, friends & family, as well as give them a sense of "owning" their pain to better cope with it.

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