“It’s Always the End of the World” reflects on the future from the vantage point of 2025, drawing on responses from over 50 survey participants at Minneapolis College of Art and Design and beyond.
Amid rising global political tensions, the project creates space for people to express their feelings about the future, shaped by age, geography, and minority identities. Responses ranged from fearful to hopeful, passionate to apathetic. One word came up again and again: uncertain.
Each letter in the title phrase is hand-animated in a collage style, drawing inspiration from typefaces across eras and cultures. This celebrates the persistence of design through time while recognizing history’s cycles of war and violence, alongside resilience and innovation.
This work is part of the 2025 exhibition Future of Design, curated by Santi Calderon in MCAD’s Gallery 148.