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Onibaba Studio @onibaba-studio.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

Checkout our latest project blog! For this one, Cori created personalized illustrations of the Kairos Fellowship staff for their website. More here: onibaba.studio/2025/08/27/k...

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Onibaba Studio @onibaba-studio.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

This spring we worked with the team at 1 Community to create grandma trading cards for the launch of Nonna's on Neflix. Check out the Nonna's cards!

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Onibaba Studio @onibaba-studio.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

Over the past three years we partnered with @buildingmovement.bsky.social to create graphic notes for their State of Solidarity series of panels. The panels were stacked with powerful organizers and community leaders sharing about their work and wisdoms. Read more: onibaba.studio/2025/07/24/b...

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Building Movement Project (2023-2025)

Graphic Recording // Illustrated Notes for Building Movement Project’s Solidarity series from 2023-2025

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Onibaba Studio @onibaba-studio.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

This year Cori has collaborated with editors and journalists at @illinoisanswers.bsky.social to make interactive illustrations and explainers to accompany three of their investigative stories. More here: onibaba.studio/2025/07/15/i...

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Illinois Answers Project (2025)

Illustration for Illinois Answers project investigative reporting. Economic mobility, sewage flooding in Cahokia Heights, and the Quantum Facility in South Shore, Chicago.

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Onibaba Studio @onibaba-studio.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

Hello! We are back with recaps on some recent cool projects. We have been fortunate to partner with @citybureau.bsky.social on creating visuals for their Annual Reports. Read more on our project blog: onibaba.studio/2025/07/16/c...

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City Bureau Annual Reports (2023-2025)

Illustration for City Bureau Annual Reports over three years. Showcasing community centered reporting and documenting across the nation.

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Onibaba Studio @onibaba-studio.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

If you are interested in hearing about future sales, signing up for our newsletter is your best bet! Hope to see you there 💛 mailchi.mp/16a03efcd25b...

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Onibaba Studio @onibaba-studio.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

For each sale we aim to donate 30% of profits to mutual aid. From these sales we donated over $500, which we split between the Midwest Access Coalition, the GoFundMe's of a Palestinian family and queer Sudanese people that we have community connections to. www.midwestaccesscoalition.org

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Midwest Access Coalition

We are a practical abortion fund that offers abortion support. We provide access to safe and legal abortion services by helping with abortion travel, lodging, food, medicine, and more. Donate to…

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Onibaba Studio @onibaba-studio.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

Earlier in June we also popped up at the EXTRA MSG event, hosted by Về Lại and HAIBAYÔ! It's always a treat to sell next to friends and collaborators (like Mom's!)

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Onibaba Studio @onibaba-studio.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

It's SALE SZN ☀️ In May we had a lot of fun tabling at Ludlow Liquors for the GXGX Hong Kong Night Market. Thank you to Kiyomi (@letskeepdrawing) for including us!

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Onibaba Studio @onibaba-studio.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

Excited to have done illustrations for this comprehensive reporting project from @illinoisanswers.bsky.social led by @cplhouse.bsky.social 🚧🚧

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Onibaba Studio @onibaba-studio.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

Spotted in the wild 👀: our 'Stories of Connection' project with the Loppet Foundation! Thank you to our Minneapolis friends for sharing.

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Onibaba Studio @onibaba-studio.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

We feel lucky to be still doing Reader Bites after recent staff layoffs at The Reader, including our Reader Bites Art Director, @jameshosking.bsky.social Read more about the layoffs and support The Reader if you're able to here: chicagoreader.com/reader/press...

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Chicago Reader Announces Restructuring and Layoffs

The Reader Institute for Community Journalism, publisher of the Chicago Reader, on Tuesday announced the immediate layoffs of six non-union employee staff positions, spurred by an urgent need to reduc...

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Onibaba Studio @onibaba-studio.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

Aloo paratha - Annapurna Simply Vegetarian/Devon Ave Nutella souffle pancakes - Hanabusa Cafe/South Loop Guava linzer cookies - Nata/Pop ups across the city Smoked brisket taco - Antique Taco/Bridgeport More reader bites: chicagoreader.com/food/reader-...

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Onibaba Studio @onibaba-studio.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

Orange dream smoothie - Jackalope Coffee & Tea House/Bridgeport Youngster bagel sandwich - R&A Sourdough/Ravenswood Pot roast sandwich - Punky's Pizza & Pasta/Bridgeport Peacemaker po'boy - Daisy's Po-Boy & Tavern/Hyde Park

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Onibaba Studio @onibaba-studio.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

Illustrations from the @chicagoreader.com column 'Reader Bites'. Here are some of our recent favorites! Coffee jelly - Tenjin/Lincolnwood Bulgogi beef bowl - Rice'N Bread/Wrigleyville Guajolota torta tamal - Santa Masa Tamaleria/Belmont Heights Seafood udon ramen - Shinya Ramen House/Bridgeport

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Onibaba Studio @onibaba-studio.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

We feel lucky to be still doing Reader Bites after recent staff layoffs at The Reader, including our Reader Bites Art Director. Read more about the layoffs and support The Reader if you're able to here: chicagoreader.com/reader/press...

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Chicago Reader Announces Restructuring and Layoffs

The Reader Institute for Community Journalism, publisher of the Chicago Reader, on Tuesday announced the immediate layoffs of six non-union employee staff positions, spurred by an urgent need to…

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Onibaba Studio @onibaba-studio.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

Bulgogi beef from Rice'N Bread in Wrigleyville.

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Onibaba Studio @onibaba-studio.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

Guajolota torta tamal from Santa Masa Tamaleria in Belmont Heights.

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Onibaba Studio @onibaba-studio.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

Seafood udon ramen from Shinya Ramen House in Bridgeport.

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Onibaba Studio @onibaba-studio.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

At each draft stage, the illustrations were taken to community advisory meetings for feedback, and ideas for illustration specifics were largely generated by the team and Kimberly, a long-term Northside Minneapolis resident. Here are some of the finalized assets. Read more here: bit.ly/3RrRSZ9

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Onibaba Studio @onibaba-studio.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

Using Neamatallah Elsayed's qualitative research and input by the community advisory board, Cori drafted storymaps that encompassed major themes of place-based memories, historical displacement, relationships with green space, and intentions for community.

hand sketches of Plymouth Avenue Divide in Minneapolis

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Onibaba Studio @onibaba-studio.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

Sharing another project blog ✨ This one is about the 'Stories of Connection' project, a collaboration with the Center for Urban & Regional Affairs at the University of Minnesota (CURA) and the Loppet Foundation. Read more: bit.ly/3RrRSZ9

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Theodore Wirth Park – Stories of Connection (2024)

Illustrated storymaps showing relationship between Minneapolis Northsiders and Theodore Wirth Park (2025)

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Onibaba Studio @onibaba-studio.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

Thanks Dan! Yeah it was hard to process because I'm delighted about the toy AND so distressed about it at the same time 😆 but I love that ppl online are like 'the toy is cute! The content tho....' -cori

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Onibaba Studio @onibaba-studio.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

We love to see people being vocal and critical about the representation of elders and cultures in the Lunar New Year Tonie ✊ We don't want to rely on corporations to teach us about our own traditions, especially as we let culture transform in the diaspora. Read more: bit.ly/4hzCd4X

Screenshot of the amazon review “not as fun as the great race tonie”

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Onibaba Studio @onibaba-studio.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

Process images from designing the LNY Tonie - we love how the figurine turned out. The figurines for Toniebox are all hand-painted in China which is amazing to think about. Read more: bit.ly/4hzCd4X

(3) Final sketches of Tonie figure design

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Onibaba Studio @onibaba-studio.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

Sharing our design for the Lunar New Year Tonie! Designing this figure brought up the question: what even **is** Lunar New Year? Read more about the process and quandaries of designing pan cultural figures on our blog! bit.ly/4hzCd4X

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Lunar New Year Tonie Figurine Design (2024)

The design process of the Lunar New Year Toniebox figurine by cori lin at onibaba studio

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Onibaba Studio @onibaba-studio.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

GRAPHIC NOTES for “Building our own Table: Innovative Insights by Trans Justice Visionaries” panel series with Trans Justice Funding Project, in October 2024. Panelists: Andrea Jenkins, Emmett Schelling, Kris Hayashi, Malachi Garza, Mattee Jim, Mickaela Bradford, Rumba Yambu, Tatiana Williams

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Crystal Paul @cplhouse.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

Developers promise a *quantum computing* hub in South Chicago will bring jobs & revival. Experts wonder if a quantum computer can be built at all. Residents wonder if the jobs will be FOR them? Or will they be displaced BY them? @binghuihuang.bsky.social reports. @onibaba-studio.bsky.social illos

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Onibaba Studio @onibaba-studio.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

Our illustrations are in the explainer portion of this deep dive into the 😨 quantum computing campus 😨 planned for South Shore in 2025 !!!

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Onibaba Studio @onibaba-studio.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

Congratulations to Rasheedah Phillips! The panel Rasheedah hosted about Afrodiasporan and Indigenous futurisms and spatiality was by far my fav illustrated notetaking gig of last year!

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Onibaba Studio @onibaba-studio.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

GRAPHIC NOTES for Dissenters panel on Neoliberalism in 2021. Featuring Noura Erakat, Ajumu Baraka, Dr Robin DG Kelley, and Adrian Bonifacio.

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Onibaba Studio @onibaba-studio.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

GRAPHIC NOTES for then Chicago South Asians for Justice in 2020! Featuring Kris, Tanvi K, Abdul M, and Bettina J.

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Onibaba Studio @onibaba-studio.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

ILLUSTRATION for @wbez.org piece about Margaret Burroughs by Tiara Hicks and @invisible.institute! Featuring the portraits of Anthony Spaulding, Cedric X Cal, Carl Williams, and Marcos Gray

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Onibaba Studio @onibaba-studio.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

GRAPHIC NOTES for Rasheedah Phillips hosted panel with Policy Link from 2024! Featuring Tonika Lewis Johnson, Grace L. Dillon, Edyka Chilome, Ingrid LeFleur, and @tanaya.bsky.social

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Onibaba Studio @onibaba-studio.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

Hi Bluesky! We’re Onibaba Studio, a small illustration and graphic recording studio based in Chicago. We specialize in info-dense and narrative illustrations for folks oriented towards justice and movement building. Here are some past projects:

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