Frankie Jane Barar
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MY RESUME
Frankie Jane is a student at Parsons Paris, The New School, with experience in Graphic Design, Photography, and styling. Her most recent work uses hyper-visual websites and book design to explore one’s sense of self, identity, and childhood, while also reflecting on new technological advancements and cultural shifts that make it harder to freely find one’s sense of self. Most of her inspiration stems from nostalgia and multicultural traditions that all root back to her own identity. As seen through her work, she is passionate about blending social justice into her graphic studies. She also has further experience in brand and visual identity, PR and advertising, styling, and sales.
Parsons School of Design, New York, NY
Strategic Design and Management
GPA: 3.9
Dean's List achievement for four consecutive semesters
Parsons School of Design, Paris, FR
Strategic Design and Management
GPA: 3.9
Ringard Magazine
PDF document
Frankie Jane Barar. 2026.
Welcome to Ringard, the first interactive magazine.
Bound together by binder rings, Ringard encourages self-exploration through the collection of analog practices. Like the wrapper of the candy bar you just ate? Add it in Ringard! Feel like writing your deepest, darkest secrets? There are pages in the back just for you.
Inspired by the idea of a communal junk journal, Ringard combines elements of collaboration, selfhood, and creativity through its interactivity, content, and business model. Ringard focuses on finding one's genuine self amid the overwhelming algorithmic world under capitalism. As we used to go online to escape reality, Ringard uses the tangible world to escape the digital realm.
Your findings are accompanied by my self-exploration and areas that have helped me understand my identity. Entries include food as a ritual and practice, third spaces as a means for human connection, and questioning as a means of research. Anecdotes are accompanied by my own photos and memorabilia.
Video Walkthrough
Frankie Jane Barar. 2026.
Uniquely, Paris
Mock Website
Frankie Jane Barar. 2026.
Welcome to Uniquely, Paris, an interactive, spontaneity-forward website that reimagines the city as a collection of experiences rather than a formulated itinerary.
Instead of feeding users recommendations of places they didn’t even ask to see, the platform invites travelers to focus on what they have already experienced, pinning photos based on “small discoveries”: graffiti found in the 19th, a balcony railing, an old Parisian couple having a picnic (with their consent, of course), even the classic Parisian cobblestone streets! When clicked, these pins show photos, with an optional title and personal blurb.
Bringing back the nostalgia for personal and unique websites while also fostering a new sense of personal discovery. Users interact not by algorithm, but through genuine curiosity. It still keeps the “shareable” energy Gen Z craves, but redirects it toward the spontaneous and the overlooked rather than the overtouristed and the overly polished.
Uniquely, Paris directly combats the homogenization and aesthetic fatigue of modern travel. It encourages users to find new paths to their desired locations, redistributing crowds from hyper-concentrated viral zones. Eventually, this platform helps combat Disneyfication. Fostering economic support for family-owned businesses. It also resolves the creative Gen Z’s contradiction: creating space for and away from viral hotspots.
Users will no longer feel such benign envy for those online, as these viral recommendations will not take over their entire itinerary. Uniquely, Paris frames genuine exploration as equally worthy of documentation. Users become active contributors to a collective history, turning travel into an act of curation that values human curiosity over digital validation.
Uniquely, Paris
Report
Frankie Jane Barar. 2026.
Ultimately, Uniquely, Paris brings back flânerie in the new age of social media. Focusing on archiving small, sentimental moments that are sometimes the most representative of Parisian culture. By building this alternative platform for real observations, the site not only preserves the city’s authentic character against commercialization and gentrification, but also lets travelers truly experience their trips, rather than simply going on them.
Uniquely, Paris
Website walkthrough
Frankie Jane Barar. 2026.
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Kaleidoscope
Type Specimen
Frankie Jane Barar. 2027.
I designed a modular font that takes modularity in negative space. Inspired by Godina by Alberto Molina and Camaleondesque Display by Gian Wong. It is a lowercase font that is composed of a circular grid system. The brief was to make a modular font; the more unique, the better. The process began with modularity research, including identifying the established limitations and the boundaries I wanted to push. Then I made sketches that broke down the negative space of each letter into 9 identifying shapes. I copied my sketches into Illustrator and then uploaded my file to make an OTF file.