ELIAS KAHN
INDEX, INFO
Designing Motherhood
2023
Exhibition
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Site Visits, Presentations, Artifact Curation, Concept, Design Development, and Final Design/Production Artwork.

Designing Motherhood features over 200 objects reflecting upon the history of reproduction, from contraception to conception to postpartum. A winding ‘umbilical table’ organizes this eclectic but powerful content into different stages of pregnancy, helping to guide the visitor throughout the space.

Seattle, Washington
Bill & Melinda Gates Discovery Center: 15,000 sf
Studio Matthews

Principal: Kristine Matthews
Project Lead: Marta Bernstein
Designers: Jessica Cooper, Eli Kahn
PM: Samantha Segar
Fabricator: DillonWorks

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Communication Arts,
Award of Excellence, 2023

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Year
Type
Project
2023
Cooper Hewitt — Give Me A Sign
Exhibition
, 
2023
Story Boards SDF
Environmental
, 
Exhibition
, 
2023
Seattle Parks Foundation
Identity
, 
Illustration
, 
2023
Designing Motherhood
Exhibition
, 
2023
Overlake Hospital
Environmental
, 
2022
New Year’s Card
Experimental
, 
Typeface
, 
Print
, 
2022
Street Weeds
Personal
, 
Experimental
, 
Print
, 
2022
Plotter Run 001
Personal
, 
Illustration
, 
Print
, 
2021
Ballard Food Bank
Environmental
, 
Identity
, 
Illustration
, 
2021
Asurion
Wayfinding
, 
Environmental
, 
2021
Seattle Design Festival
Environmental
, 
Object
, 
Research
, 
2020
Seattle Parking Navigation
Publication
, 
2020
Variable Objects
Identity
, 
Object
, 
2019
Slip Rabbit Studio
Object
, 
Publication
, 
Identity
, 
2019
Queer Internet Publication
Publication
, 
Research
, 
2018
Castor Sans
Typeface
, 
2018
Tokyo Bench
Object
, 
Research
, 
Other Works
Various
2018–2023
Elias Kahn is a designer and artist based in Seattle, Washington.
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Since graduating from the University of Washington’s Visual Communication Design program in 2020, he has worked as a designer at Studio Matthews, a multidisciplinary studio with a focus on environmental graphic design and wayfinding.
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Eli imbues empathy and function into his creative output, navigating between the digital and the tangible. His interests lie in exploring unique modes of visual communication, designed experiences, and finding opportunities for technology and art to coincide.

Available for freelance.
EDUCATION
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UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON
Bachelor of Design
Visual Communication Design
Seattle, Washington
2020
EXPERIENCE

STUDIO MATTHEWS
Designer
Seattle, Washington
07 2020 – Present

REI CO-OP
Intern → Freelance
Seattle, Washington
Summer 2019, Spring 2020

SLIP RABBIT
Intern → Freelance
Seattle, Washington
12 2017 – 06 2020
AWARDS
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with STUDIO MATTHEWS
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365: AIGA Year in Design, Environmental and Experiential Design Award, 2022
for Asurion

Communication Arts, Branding and Environmental Design Award, 2022
for Ballard Food Bank
© 2023
elivkahn@gmail.com
@elivkahn
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