Digital + Branding
Print


1. Miss America
Booklet Project
2025

This project explored the relationship between bookbinding, user experience, and the physicality of printed matter. I researched the history of the Miss America pageant, focusing on themes of femininity, performance, and national identity. To reflect the topic, I designed the book using a pink color palette, referencing traditional notions of beauty and gender. I also experimented with separately printed images that could be inserted, layered, or repositioned, allowing them to interact dynamically with the layout and typography. This hands-on approach emphasized the tactile nature of books and invited readers to engage with the content in an active, playful way.





2. Club Rambutan Issue #03
Editorial Design
2025

This Project was my first issue as Club Rambutans Lead and Solo Editorial Designer. I expirimented with binding, printing, and differnt size pages, to create a more interactive reading expirinece. 





3.  Blank Blank Blank
Book Design
2025

This project was an archive of work from my sophomore and junior year. I once again expirimented with binding, paper, and paper sizes. I also expiriemented with typography, having text in half english and japanese. I was inspired by the japanese class I took the same semester as this project. 




Resume
Riley Mae Wagner
rmwagne7@asu.edu
@rileyyymaee To quote Bruno Munari, “The designer is therefore the artist of today, not because he is a genius but because he works in such a way as to reestablish contact between art and the public.” This line resonates deeply with me. In a culture increasingly driven by automation, templates, and mass production, design has begun to lose its emotional weight—its soul. What once bridged function and feeling has too often become surface-level and standardized. I believe design should do more than just work—it should move. It should stir curiosity, create friction, evoke memory, and offer a sensory, meaningful experience.

As a designer, I’m not chasing perfection or polish for its own sake—I’m chasing presence. I want to create work that feels lived in, considered, and alive. Work that invites someone to pause, look closer, and feel something they weren’t expecting to. Design, to me, is not just about solving problems but creating emotional dialogue—between the object and the viewer, the user and the story.

This philosophy is something I carry into every medium I touch—whether I’m laying out a print publication, shaping the identity of a brand, designing experimental web experiences, or crafting digital compositions. I’m particularly drawn to editorial design and branding, where content, narrative, and visual language are in constant conversation. I love working in that intersection of clarity and expression—where function doesn’t diminish feeling, but deepens it.

My work is influenced by fashion, art history, tactile materials, and moments of visual contradiction. I’m interested in imperfections, cultural artifacts, and design that doesn’t try to be timeless—but timely, reactive, and real. In an oversaturated world, I want my work to offer something human.



Education
 Arizona State University — Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts
2022 - 2026

Bachelor of Science in Design (BSD), Graphic Design
Minor in Fashion



Employment Club Rambutan 
Lead Editorial Designer
2024 - Present

Sandow 
Graphic Design Intern
2025 - Present

Self-Employed
Free Lance Graphic Designer
2025 - Present

ReferralsMaria Manaog
Founder and Editor in Chief
Club Rambutan
mmanaog22@gmail.com

Jamin Mobasher
Creative Director
Club Rambutan
Jmobashe@asu.edu


Skills
Illustrator 
Photoshop 
Indesign
Figma
CSS
HTML
Book Binding
Printing


AwardsNew American Award
2022

New American Award
2023

New American Award
2024

New American Award
2025

Deans List 
2022

Deans List 
2023

Deans List 
2024

Deans List 
2025


Me!


Last Updated 24.10.31