here / still

What if a designed object could function not as a guide to presence, but as presence itself?

This project includes three books, a glossary card deck, and a daily practice book, exploring how design is experienced through the body. Touch, weight, texture, pacing, and layering shape the encounter, creating space for slowness through tactility. The work grew from making as a form of healing, offering a space to reconnect to the body, to notice the breath, to feel grounded, and to let thoughts come and go without forcing change.

These pieces won’t resolve anything. They stay with the reader, a companion in the act of being, inviting presence.

Bio

Iris Martin is a graphic designer whose practice transforms emotion, memory, and uncertainty into something tangible and refined. Her work lives in the tension between beauty and discomfort, using texture, transparency, and type. She is particularly drawn to tactile, layered materials that hold traces of the human hand.

Through book and print design, she creates spaces for reflection, bridging the internal and external. She specializes in long-form typography, editorial design, bookmaking, and cohesive type systems across digital and print media.