DESIGNER. CREATIVE DIRECTOR.
TYPE OBSESSED SYSTEMS THINKER.
Experience & Clients RISD, Frontier Design Inc. OCAD University, Elizabeth Goodspeed, + more.
Awards STA 100, TDC Young Ones, RGD Branding Awards, Updike Prize for Type Design, The Museum of Avant-Garde
Press Its Nice That, EFlux Magazine, Vera List Center, Graphic Design USA, Design Observer
Currently freelancing and open to contract work.
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Last updated July 16. 2026
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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.