My name is Kenzie, A multidisciplinary designer working between Drogheda and Dublin. My practice often combines playful, expressive visuals with deeper meaning, exploring ideas that feel personal while connecting to wider cultural and social themes. I’m drawn to projects that balance lighthearted creativity with more challenging subjects, using design to question, communicate, and reflect. Whether working in print, digital, or motion, I aim to create visuals that feel honest and emotionally engaging. My work is rooted in curiosity and storytelling finding connection through design while continuing to push my skills and explore new ways of seeing.
Becoming the Image
My project explores how contemporary beauty culture fractures the relationship between the face and the self. Drawing from The Picture of Dorian Gray, it examines how appearance becomes a measure of worth and identity. Through acts of selection, correction and rejection, I reflect on the pressure to maintain a flawless surface and the way this pursuit distorts authenticity. The work considers how social media and popular culture construct ideals that encourage self‑judgment and comparison, shaping identity through an external gaze. By dissecting and reassembling images of what society considers attractive, I expose the fragility of these ideals and the emotional distance they create between how we look and who we are. Ultimately, the project reveals how the desire for perfection leads to fragmentation, alienation, and a loss of genuine selfhood.
Privacy is not Private
This publication reveals what online platforms work so hard to conceal: the hidden machinery that extracts and predicts user behavior beneath the surface of everyday digital life. When people scroll, search, or share, they see only the interface never the layers of tracking, profiling, and behavioral modelling happening out of sight. What is taken from users is not just data, but fragments of their identity and attention all quietly repurposed to refine systems that influence what they see and how they act. By exposing this underlying system, my project challenges the notion of power built into surveillance capitalism and challenges the illusion of harmless convenience.
