Favorite Typeface: ABC Diatype
Favorite Software: InDesign
Dream Job: Art Director of a Magazine
Riley is a Graphic Design major with a minor in Fashion at Arizona State University. In the summer of 2025, she completed a design internship at Sandow Design Group, where she worked across several of the company’s brands, including Interior Design Magazine, Metropolis Magazine, Luxe Magazine, Design Milk, ThinkLab, and The Agency. Through this experience, Riley gained hands-on exposure to editorial and brand-focused design across multiple platforms and currently continues to work at Sandow Design Group as a designer. Outside of school and professional work, Riley also designs for independent publications such as Club Rambutan and Envy Magazine, working as an editorial designer for fun and creative exploration.
Anti-Intellectulism
The Gradual Death of Thinking
Anti-intellectualism has grown alongside the evolution of media, intensifying as information becomes faster, cheaper, and more emotionally driven. What began as the widespread circulation of persuasive print has expanded into mass broadcasting, visual soundbites, and now algorithmic feeds that reward certainty over accuracy. Across each shift, expertise is gradually displaced by confidence, repetition, and visibility. Complex ideas are compressed, context is stripped away, and opinion increasingly replaces evidence. This is not a sudden collapse of knowledge, but a slow structural erosion—one built into the systems that shape how information appears, circulates, and survives.
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