Alina Mufti
About
Biography
Alina Mufti is a visual communicator whose practice explores identity and transcultural narratives through graphic design, illustration, and community engagement. She will be awarded her MA in Visual Communication from the Royal College of Art, London in September 2025. In May 2023, she completed her BFA in Art, Media, and Technology at Parsons Paris, The New School.
Her international experiences relocating across Singapore, London, Paris, Copenhagen, Houston, and Munich have shaped her belief in design as a tool for sociocultural adaptability and connection. Informed by autoethnography, her work bridges private and public spheres, employing bookmaking, editorial design, and visual identity design.
Research Project Statement: Possessions into Portraits
Alina is developing a visual communication practice that examines how personal belongings can reveal alternative frameworks for self-representation. Her RCA Independent Research Project, Possessions into Portraits, is a collection of portraits revealed through the possessions that transcultural individuals carry with them as they move across places and cultures. In transition, possessions become holders of memory, relationships, past homes, and self.
Each portrait is initiated through an interview, where chosen possessions are described from memory. These are collaboratively drawn into composite sketches, and later interpreted into illustrations and digital models that reveal silhouettes formed by remembered, not objective, form. The bound prints are returned to those they depict, completing the cycle between possession, memory, and portraiture.
Her practice is rooted in co-authorship and critical self-reflection, questioning how visual communication can challenge institutional identity frameworks and open space for more personal and culturally adaptive ways of being represented. She aims to continue developing work that treats design as a tool for connection, translation, and comprehension between cultures and shifting environments.
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