INFO
Deborah Khodanovich (she/her) is a designer and educator from Toronto, now living in Providence, RI after recently completing her MFA in Graphic Design at the Rhode Island School of Design. Her practice explores gossip as a way of producing and sharing knowledge—thinking about how women’s information networks operate and how intimacy can act as a design methodology.
She works across typography, textiles, and bookbinding, making things that question who gets to create knowledge and how it moves between people. Deborah is interested in how we attribute ideas, the way knowledge circulates through communities, and what gets valued or dismissed.
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PRESS
- Deborah Khodanovich’s font honours the most trivialised form of communication – gossip
- How Passover became a design problem
- Intentional Nourishment is... A Labour of Love
- Fonts in Use
- A Systemic Change example: Relational Citation
RECOGNITION
Graphic Design USA
Student to Watch 2026
Updike Prize for Type Design
Finalist
The Museum of Avant-Garde
Contemporary Collection
Gonda Fund for Social Justice
Recipient
Registered Graphic Designers (RGD) Branding Awards
Winner, Branding Identity: Rebrand
Registered Graphic Designers (RGD) Student Awards
Winner, Tony Jurgilas Award for Logo Design
Honourable Mention, Bell Media Award for Typography
Honourable Mention, Pivot Award for Information Design
ADA Slaight Scholarship
Recipient
TEACHING & SPEAKING
Upcoming: Panelist
Vera List Matter of Intelligence Series
Exhibition Design
RISD, Graphic Design, Winter 2026
Guest Speaker
OCAD University, Research Methods in Graphic Design, Fall 2025
Graphic Design 1
OCAD University, Graphic Design, Spring 2024
Design Process 1, Design Process 2
OCAD University, Graphic Design, 2022—2024