OLIVIA OBEN . . . is an interdisciplinary visual designer and researcher interested in exploring cultural ownership, binaries, and systems in and through graphics, design, publications, and physical media.
2023 A fashion editorial on Tito Cael, designed and inspired by Epoch Magazine. Styled by El Abella. Photography
Art direction
Layout design
Casting 02 HOW TO CURE “LAMIG” OR STIFFNESS
2024
A series of images alongside a written screenplay by Kai Magboo, for a self-curated publication entitled “To Move with Grace and Guts”Photography
Research and Writing
Art Direction 03 GRACE AND GUTS PUBLICATION
2024 An anthology exploring the Other within the Western binary through Filipino Macho Dancing, ballerinas, and Budots. It proposes an anti-colonial body by discussing alternative realities to hegemonic representations and, thus, stereotypes. Publication
Photography
Research and Writing
Curation and Editing Performance
04 REAL MANILA FASHION
2023
A video and series of images on Alvin Medenilla, driver and basketball-player. Photography
Film and Video
Art Direction 05 PUSSEY
2024 Images taken at Loving Cats Worldwide (LCWW) Convention, Brighton. Images have been curated into a publication with Anya Gunn.
Photography
Publication Making
Typography 06 CARL JAN CRUZ
2023
Fashion campaign shot for Carl Jan Cruz’ Pique Collection. Photography Art Direction
Archival Studies
Research
07 TINIBOP AND TSUPER
2023 Selects from an image series on my family. Photography
Serif 420 + HK Grotesk Regular (both by Hanken Design Co.)