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About
Sophia Ponomarenko
Rhode Island School of Design BFA Industrial Design ‘2025
Coming from a fine arts background, my designs are heavily influenced by my love for dancing, music, fashion, and theater. My design philosophy involves reimagining objects through a focus on their relationships with us. Recent projects have aimed to explore objects’ boundaries, and how we can transgress and abstract why/how/what we surround our bodies and minds with. Through process, material/textural composition, and metaphor, I strive to reinvent concepts and imbue everything I make with significance and agency, forming relationships between wearer, object, and viewer that go beyond the surface and enter a space where object is inseparable from body and becomes a tool for the wearer to express their truest self.
I hope to create pieces that become extensions of their users and have long, meaningful lives after their making.
Resume and PDF portfolio available upon request.