Isometric

Discover the world of Columbia Engineering through the lens of the newly redesigned alumni magazine. We developed a visual system that foregrounds stories of collaboration and innovation at the school while celebrating alumni achievements and contributions. A new typographic suite and color palette enhances clarity and readability, and a meticulous approach to image treatment and captions adds a visual laver of storytelling. #graphicdesign #magazines #isometric #newyork #columbiauniversity

Inspiring innovation across disciplines: along with a newly established layout and visual system, each year, we work with the Columbia Engineering team to conceptualize the alumni magazine cover and feature story designs with bespoke treatments that recur through the issue. For these, our goal is to elevate the foundational design ingredients — typography, color, photography — to the level of art, conveying to readers the aesthetic and functional power of engineering to transform a complex world.

NEW WORK: Isometric worked closely with the team at Columbia Engineering to conceptualize and design a wholly updated print alumni magazine and digital newsletter. The new communications materials inform and engage engineering audiences across the United States and around the world with particular emphasis on industry partnerships and alumni engagement. We developed a visual system that foregrounds stories of collaboration and innovation at the school while celebrating alumni achievements and contributions. A new typographic suite and color palette enhances clarity and readability, and a meticulous approach to image treatment and captions adds a visual laver of storytelling. Through the use of scale contrast, pacing, and layered details, the magazine's design creates a communication framework for its thoughtfully curated content. #graphicdesign #magazines #isometric #newyork #design

We’re hiring! Isometric is seeking a remote architectural designer to join our team on a freelance basis. Applications are due Wednesday, March 11 by 6pm EST. Learn more below and apply via link in bio. Isometric is currently working on several exhibition design and signage and wayfinding projects for prominent cultural institutions, with exciting work on the horizon. Your role would be to assist with ongoing and upcoming spatial and exhibition projects. The ideal candidate would be comfortable working in a collaborative interdisciplinary environment and in a diverse range of media and scales. Our studio culture is ideal for close collaboration and provides an opportunity for leadership and initiative. We emphasize a context where good ideas and work are respected and implemented. The candidate should have a passion for improving the built environment by shaping spaces of belonging. Think you’re the perfect fit? Please email [email protected] with your portfolio, resume, and a 100-word bio. Applicants are encouraged to send a range of projects including commercial and personal work. Read more at isometricstudio.com/jobs or via the link in our bio, and please share with your friends! #newyork #architecturaldesign #jobpost #architecture #design

For Robert Rauschenberg’s New York: Pictures from the Real World, we designed a monumental structure for visual dialogue. This central structure, an H-shaped abstraction of a screen-printing screen, divides the room into zones that place Rauschenberg’s finished artworks in active dialogue with his photographic observations along the perimeter. Visitors can identify visual echoes, noticing a photograph on the outer wall and then locating its reappearance within a painting inside the structure. Each wall panel was meticulously engineered to support priceless artworks while elegantly framing stretched translucent fabric to complete the monumental form.

In designing Robert Rauschenberg’s New York: Pictures from the Real World, we collaborated closely with curator Sean Corcoran, museum leadership, and the Rauschenberg Foundation to create an installation that honors the artist’s centennial and presents his work with clarity, boldness, and renewed immediacy for contemporary audiences. Our shared goal was to celebrate and illuminate Rauschenberg’s work and process through design. This ethos guided us through complex decisions regarding color, temporary wall construction, and the use of translucency to heighten perception and invite deeper looking.

Robert Rauschenberg’s New York: Pictures from the Real World is on view at Museum of the City of New York (@museumofcityny )! Isometric designed an exhibition that surrounds visitors with the artist’s own photographs: images that served both as a personal archive of his life in New York City and as the raw material for his groundbreaking paintings. Rauschenberg resized, rotated, overlapped, colorized, and screenprinted these photographs to construct his monumental works, and the exhibition architecture takes direct inspiration from the scale and tactility of screen-printing screens.  A monumental, abstracted screen structure frames the artworks at the center of the gallery, immersing viewers in the interplay between the photographs and their transformation into paintings. Seen both as original objects and through the soft yellow filter of translucent screen fabric, the images reveal the layered process at the heart of Rauschenberg’s practice. The graphic design echoes the boldness of the works and of New York City, using condensed sans serif typography in a dynamic, collage-like relationship with reproduced photographs and paragraph text.

We’re proud to share that the Isometric-designed permanent exhibition at the Juanita J. Craft Civil Rights House & Museum has received the 2025 Preservation Texas Honor Award! This recognition honors the extraordinary leadership of architect Nancy McCoy, who was recognized by Preservation Texas, and with whom we had the privilege of working closely. Together with a dedicated team of collaborators, we helped realize a decades-long dream: creating a world-class permanent exhibition that amplifies the enduring legacy of Juanita J. Craft—a pioneering civil rights leader who organized hundreds of NAACP youth councils, fought to integrate schools and public facilities across Texas, and dedicated her life to racial equity and community empowerment. The Craft House will be the only Texas stop on the U.S. Civil Rights Trail, ensuring that her story continues to inspire generations to come.

We’re hiring! Isometric is seeking a remote graphic designer to join our team on a freelance basis. Applications are due Monday, Sept. 29 by 6pm EST. Learn more below and apply via link in bio. Isometric is currently working on several branding, hospitality, and exhibition design projects for prominent cultural institutions, with exciting work on the horizon. The ideal candidate would have 2–3 years of studio experience and be comfortable with diverse media including print, digital, and spatial graphic design. The position entails a three-month commitment with possibility of full-time position. Exhibition design, Figma, and motion graphics expertise are a huge plus. Isometric is interested in building a team of creative collaborators with a range of lived and professional experiences. We encourage applications from underrepresented groups in design including women, queer and gender non-conforming people, people with disabilities, and people of color. Think you’re the perfect fit? Please email [email protected] with your portfolio, resume, and a 100-word bio. Applicants are encouraged to send a range of projects including commercial and personal work. Read more at isometricstudio.com/jobs or via the link in our bio, and please share with your friends! #isometricstudio #designjobs #brooklyn #graphicdesign

We acknowledge with deep grief the ongoing genocide in Gaza and the decades-long conditions of occupation, apartheid, and dehumanization that have made this immense tragedy possible. For two years we remained silent, fearful that speaking against Zionism and settler colonialism would be misunderstood or misrepresented as antisemitism. But these must never be conflated. Our work has consistently demonstrated unconditional respect for Jewish life, history, art, and culture, and we affirm that the same worth, dignity, and value belong to Palestinian lives, histories, and futures. Every person—Israeli or Palestinian—deserves a safe home, the freedom to live without fear, and the chance to pursue happiness. As American taxpayers and as an American small business, we recognize our complicity in systems of inequality and systematic violence that continue to devastate millions of lives. Over the past two years, we have been inundated with violent images and videos of civilians being mercilessly trapped, displaced, and killed—their homes and communities obliterated by American weapons. We distinctly remember Hind Rajab, a young girl who was the only survivor in a car after her family was killed. Her terrified voice on the phone with rescue workers haunts us still. Hours after that call, the Israeli army killed her, along with the two medics who had been sent to save her. We also grieve for the Israeli civilians who were murdered or kidnapped by Hamas, including those taken hostage from their homes and at a music festival. Every civilian life displaced, tortured, or killed is unacceptable. These stories are unbearable reminders of human cruelty and of our shared responsibility to resist silence in the face of atrocity. — Statement continued in pinned comment. See below.

The exhibition design turns the gallery into a whimsical pinball machine of color, texture, and form—yet every playful element has an edge. Pavilions echo toy blocks, metallic surfaces shimmer with carnival brightness, and oversized cutouts invite exploration. At the same time, the architecture mirrors the duality at the heart of the show: lightness as a vehicle for weighty truths. Visitors move through spaces that are humorous on the surface yet charged with layered histories of antisemitism and anti-Black racism. This playful architecture sharpens the work, reminding us that critique can be both joyful and deeply serious. Artwork: © Trenton Doyle Hancock. Courtesy of the artist and James Cohan, New York. Artwork copyright The Estate of Philip Guston, The Guston Foundation.

Philip Guston’s work confronted the specter of white supremacy head-on, using recurring cartoon-like figures of Ku Klux Klan members as self-critical symbols of complicity and moral reckoning. As a Jewish artist whose family fled pogroms in Eastern Europe, Guston grappled with the persistence of hatred and his own responsibility in depicting it. In “Draw Them In, Paint Them Out,” his paintings and drawings resonate powerfully with Trenton Doyle Hancock’s work, even though they belong to different generations, bridging decades of artistic engagement with America’s racist history. Together, their art transforms satire into a tool for unflinching reflection and collective accountability. Artwork: © Trenton Doyle Hancock. Courtesy of the artist and James Cohan, New York. Artwork copyright The Estate of Philip Guston, The Guston Foundation.