graphic design, creative thinking, problem solving

Jessie Rauch is a multitalented graphic designer, and creative thinker. She’s passionate about the design process and in finding solutions to problems — whatever form they may take.

She is well experienced in the development of imaging, typographic and branding systems, and in translating visual concepts across a variety of media: print, motion, performance, interactive, web.

Jessie’s nine years of professional experience includes positions at multinational design agencies: Razorfish, and USWeb/CKS; and work for clients such as Clinique and M·A·C Cosmetics.

Her personal work combines depth and wit to create ironic commentary on politics and pop culture. She has an active interest in design history, and wrote her master's thesis on graphic design satire.

Jessie holds an MFA in graphic design from the Rhode Island
School of Design, and a BA in computer science from Smith College.

She lives in Providence, Rhode Island.

Celebrity Catastrophe Wallpaper: installed at the RISD MFA Graduate Show, May 2008 Celebrity Catastrophe Wallpaper: pattern detail Celebrity Catastrophe Wallpaper: detail around corner Celebrity Catastrophe Wallpaper: installed at the RISD Admissions Office, 2007-8
  • Celebrity Catastrophe Wallpaper
  • 2007
  • tiled 36x128in. ink-jet prints

Eight sensationalist stories of celebrity misfortune were reduced to icons and patterned together to create a collective narrative of greed, addiction, exhibitionism and racism.

The result is a wallpaper that acts as a metaphor for the nature of celebrity scandals and the 24-hour news circus that follows them.