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...Randolph has been working with graphics indiffering capacities for a long time. Aftergraduating from Harvard, she travelled to Papua,New Guinea on a Radcliffe fellowship to documentindigenous two-dimensional design...
...Randolph chose Papua, New Guinea because thediversity of language, culture, and, mostimportantly for Randolph, design, is among thehighest in the world. The island is populated bymany small groups who have historically beengeographically isolated from each other and theoutside world. Randolph visited the communities tostudy their two-dimensional designs...
After immersing herself in indigenous art,Randolph moved to Sydney, Australia to look for ajob, and found herself in a different environment.She switched over to the business side of design,working first as a graphic designer for acorporation in Sydney and then returning to theStates to start her own corporate identity designfirm. In both jobs, she designed all manner ofads, logos and corporate images...
...Randolph says, the work level became"manic." And although her company was lucrative,the hotel brochures she produced were "marketdriven, and not very creative." She is quick topraise the benefits of corporate design, but"having studied how design can interact withculture in Papua, New Guinea," says Randolph, "Iwas quickly disillusioned with the corporateworld...
Although she still maintains her corporateimage company and her involvement in a clothingdesign firm, Randolph has shifted her focus to apurer form of graphic design. She has returned toHarvard, where "teaching is allowing me to pay myrent so I can work on the graphic design Ichoose...