(Un)finishedness

When is a piece of graphic design ever really "done"? A designer keeps revising: each version closes some doors and opens others. The work is never quite finished, only paused. (Un)finishedness treats completion not as a fixed state, but as something performed, negotiated between the designer's intuition and outside pressure. Through repeated screen-printing and a custom dry-transfer type kit, the project looks at how designers decide when to begin, when to pause, and when to reopen a piece of work.

At its centre is a single poster, Bare Minimum, screen-printed in multiple versions over several months. Each version shifts by a colour change, a kerning adjustment, a repositioned element, a torn edge. The aim isn't to find the "best" version, but to make visible the small, often invisible decisions behind any design process: the doubt while making, the second-guessing afterwards, the moment of choosing to stop. The dry-transfer kit pushes this question further, letting decisions come from outside the designer. Completion, the project argues, is never the designer's choice alone.