Kei Arima
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Kei
Arima

Designer, artist, and science fictioner.

Art
Fiction
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Selected Works
No.TitleYearCategory
001
Void Cartography

Visual identity for an imaginary deep-space research agency.

2024Design
002
The Last Meridian

Novella. A cartographer discovers the final territory is a temporal anomaly.

2024Fiction
003
Noise Portraits

48 algorithmically generated portraits exploring identity dissolution.

2023Art
004
Fragment Type

Experimental typeface built from the remnants of three classic grotesques.

2023Design
005
Signal / Noise

Room-scale installation translating radio telescope data into light and sound.

2023Art
006
Static

Seven stories about communication failure at civilizational scale.

2022Fiction
007
The Residual Self

Exhibition design and catalogue for a retrospective on digital self-representation.

2022Design
008
Tessellation Study No.7

Ongoing investigation into geometric repetition as organic illusion.

2024Art
009
Interlude at the Edge of Memory

Long essay on how sci-fi shapes our memory of futures that never arrived.

2024Fiction
9 works
About

Design is a language.
Fiction is a lens.

I work at the threshold where systematic thinking meets speculative imagination — designing systems that carry meaning, and science-fictioning the structures of possible worlds.

My practice moves fluidly between brand identities and short fiction, art installations and typographic experiments. The through-line is always: what happens at the edges?

Open to collaborations that challenge the boundary between the designed and the imagined.

Available
Yes
Disciplines
Design / Art / Fiction
Years active
2017 —
Design as language·Fiction as lens·Edges are interesting·Void is information·Systems thinking·Speculative futures·Design as language·Fiction as lens·Edges are interesting·Void is information·Systems thinking·Speculative futures·

“The most interesting things happen at the threshold — where one system begins to fail and another hasn't yet started. That is where I work.”

Influences
Ursula K. Le GuinTed ChiangOctavia ButlerSamuel R. DelanyNeri OxmanDieter Rams
Methods
Systems thinkingSpeculative designWorld-buildingGenerative artTypographic researchNarrative structure
Contact

Let's build something
impossible.

Open to collaborations at the intersection of design, art, and speculative fiction. Especially interested in projects that don't have a category yet.

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