Field Notes — August Oppenheimer

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August (Augie) Oppenheimer is an American interaction and experience designer located in Boston, MA.

With an educational background in both industrial design and graphic design, Augie designs interaction in order to help solve problems in both thoughtful and elegant ways.

Work

Revision History - Product and Editorial
Field Notes - Editorial and UX
Tomorrowmart - Product
Inventatti - Branding
Signable - UX and Design for Disablity
Playground - Just for Fun

Education

Boston UniversityBA Graphic Design
2026

Accademia Di Belle Arti VeneziaStudy Abroad
2024

School of the Art Institute of ChicagoIndustrial Design
(Transferred to BU)
2023

Experience

Hariri InstituteDesign Researcher
Boston, MA
Since 2026

Spark!UX Practicum Project Manager/
Innovation Fellowship
Boston, MA
Since 2025

Spin350 CreativeDesign and Art DIrection Intern
Boston, MA
2025

BU Center for Innovation and Systems Engineering Design Lead
Boston, MA
2025

Smithsonian Astrophysical ObservatoryFreelance
Cambridge, MA
2024

Daily Free PressLayout Editor
Boston, MA
2024

Formaggio KitchenCheesemonger
Cambridge, MA
Seasonal

SAIC Design Studio Co-Founder
Chicago, IL
2022

Skills

Adobe Suite
Figma
HTML
CSS
JavaScript
Cargo
Framer
Cavalry
Procreate
Touch Designer
Risograph
Spectrolite
Rhino
Laser-Cutter
3D Printing
Carpentry

Exhibitions

Multiple FormatsArt Fair
2026

Sight of SoundExhibition
2025

Multiple FormatsArt Fair
2024

Multiple FormatsArt Fair
2023

Accolades

Student to WatchGDUSA
2026

AmbassadorCatherine Small Gallery
2025

Last Updated 4.28.26

About

A pre-thesis meditation on who I am as a person and as a designer, what I want to contribute to the world, and how I get to that point using the knowlege that I’ve gained up until this point. I thought of it like a retrospective scrapbook.

This project involved both a print edition, hand-bound by me, as well as an interactive web component, built for both desktop and mobile.

Concept

This publication’s theme is that of a scribbled-on, used journal. I used newsprint to further this idea, and incorporated scans of old Latin texts I’ve had to translate as a transition between sections, rather than a blank page or something of the sort. I attached a postcard from a former project to the front, as I tend to attach random extraneous pieces of paper to notebooks for other classes.

Digital

Included in this project is an online version of the publication built for both mobile and desktop. Through this, I was able to include animations and a UI that furthers the message I wanted to push with this project.