Kelly Guois a Brooklyn-based multidisciplinary designer working across graphic design, branding, and digital experiences. She graduated from Boston University with a BFA in Graphic Design and minors in Business and Innovation & Entrepreneurship.
At the heart of her practice is a curiosity about how design can bring people together. Drawing inspiration from cultural traditions, childhood nostalgia, and everyday interactions, she creates playful, thoughtful experiences that invite people to engage, connect, and find joy in the ordinary. Whether building visual identities, designing digital interfaces, or creating interactive experiences, Kelly approaches design as a way to make ideas more accessible, meaningful, and human.
Selected Works
Thesis
Client Work
Exhibition / Installation
Branding / Campaign
Event Planning
Posters
Social Media
Archive
Light as Air,
Heavy as Time
Senior Thesis
2025
(More to come...)
My thesis projects use design as a channel to facilitate conversations and opportunities for revisiting objects and traditions associated with our intersecting identities. How can we use design to better interpret and visualize the impermanence of experiences?
While learning what it means to design joy for others (particularly in curated spaces and events), my thesis continues to evolve into 5 phases of temporary happiness: Spark, Float, Glow, Pop, and Combust. These terms began to develop into the different ways joy manifests.
This also became an opportunity to recognize my deepening attachment to childlike objects and activities, particularly those that dissipate quickly. This led me to question: How do we measure happiness, and how has that evolved through the bittersweet process of growing up? At what point does our susceptibility to happiness allow our mature and immature selves to become interchangeable? And how do we capture the temporality of memories that we hold dear?
This thesis challenges viewers to embrace vulnerability, to revisit forgotten dreams, and to confront unresolved emotions. Igniting a sense of wonder in our fast-paced, future-focused world, Light as Air, Heavy as Time offers a moment to pause and celebrate the beautiful messiness of simply being human.