🏛️ Architecture & Design May 5, 2026 · Rachel Paese

In a world that feels impossible to change, emerging designer Deborah Khodanovich is starting small

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In a world that feels impossible to change, emerging designer Deborah Khodanovich is starting small
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“I love gossip,” says Deborah Khodanovich, MFA student at the Rhode Island School of Design and creator of her very own gossip-inspired typeface. She took Gutenberg’s first lead type font, Textura, and subverted its authoritative, biblical connotations, turning it into a tool for storytelling. 



Culminating in a downloadable typeface, an icon set inspired by Susan Kare’s Cairo glyphs, a textile project, a book of images of women gossiping, and a sociological study, this project aimed to a

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