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Exhibition + Curatorial Projects
This year became an immersion: a deliberate, sometimes disorienting, and ultimately grounding descent into typographic history.
Many thanks to Micah Hahn for his generosity, guidance,
and an enduring passion for typography.
Image: Render of entering wall text and graphic treatment.
Designing Escape: Disco, Pleasure, and Power in Francoist Spain
Designing Escape examines the discotheques of Francoist Spain as sites of profound contradiction. Commissioned by an authoritarian regime to generate tourist revenue, they became laboratories of sensory liberation, bodily freedom, and political transgression. Through architecture, furniture, lighting, graphic design, and fashion, the exhibition asks how designed space can serve both an instrument of control and an engine of emancipation.
Curator & Designer
Designing Escape examines the discotheques of Francoist Spain as sites of profound contradiction. Commissioned by an authoritarian regime to generate tourist revenue, they became laboratories of sensory liberation, bodily freedom, and political transgression. Through architecture, furniture, lighting, graphic design, and fashion, the exhibition asks how designed space can serve both an instrument of control and an engine of emancipation.
Curator & Designer
Image: Entering Wall Text for BlueEcho at AltaSea 2025. Exhibition walls made of compostable cardboard.
BlueEcho
The World Resources Institute is partnering with artists at the California Institute of the Arts to explore how art can spark conversation and inspire action around the ocean as a vital solution to the world’s climate challenges. Drawing from the WRI’s Blue Papers—a vision for a cleaner, more resilient future with the ocean at its heart—the artists collaborated, working across disciplines, from sound and sculpture to performance and graphic design. What emerges is a chorus of perspectives, unified by a deep sense of hope and climate optimism. Blue Echo invites us to consider how behavioral and perspective shifts accumulate into ripples that create environmental impact across the globe.
Co-Curator and Exhibition Designer with Valeria Costa
Exhibition displayed at Alta Sea at the Port of Los Angeles in 2025 with plans to travel internationally in 2026.
The World Resources Institute is partnering with artists at the California Institute of the Arts to explore how art can spark conversation and inspire action around the ocean as a vital solution to the world’s climate challenges. Drawing from the WRI’s Blue Papers—a vision for a cleaner, more resilient future with the ocean at its heart—the artists collaborated, working across disciplines, from sound and sculpture to performance and graphic design. What emerges is a chorus of perspectives, unified by a deep sense of hope and climate optimism. Blue Echo invites us to consider how behavioral and perspective shifts accumulate into ripples that create environmental impact across the globe.
Co-Curator and Exhibition Designer with Valeria Costa
Exhibition displayed at Alta Sea at the Port of Los Angeles in 2025 with plans to travel internationally in 2026.
Image: “Sounds of our Climate Future,” a piece featured in BlueEcho 2025 by Alex Taylor
Graphic design thrives on borrowing, remixing, and reimagining culture. Influence and references are sometimes clear but often remain unacknowledged. Yet each piece of design belongs to a longer chain of events, ideas, and meanings—all knotted together.
In an age when content moves faster than we can absorb, the printed word provides a space for reflection, materiality, and deliberate engagement. Renewed interest in book design among young designers speaks to a longing for depth and a tangible connection to the printed word—an urge to slow down, to read, and to engage directly with language and context. This return to print reflects a curiosity about how books might continue to shape thinking and design practice in a time defined by speed and automation.
Yesterday + Today + Tomorrow traces the interconnectedness of book design at CalArts across generations, through faculty and alumni work alongside publications that inspired and influenced their practice. Student experiments in publication design, reading, and publishing challenge and evolve conventions of materiality, user experience, and typographic systems. Together, this collection of objects functions as a set of visual citations, revealing both lineage and divergence in an evolving conversation about how ideas travel and transform through design.
Since the Institute’s founding in 1970, the Graphic Design program at CalArts has evolved in response to urgent sociopolitical issues, emerging technologies and changing cultural frameworks, centering a rigorous approach to typographic craft and conceptual inquiry. Through the book as both medium and method, the program continues to nurture designers who test what book design can be—connecting past, present, and future in a continuous act of making and reflection.
Curator
Exhibition displayed at The Reef, Los Angeles, 2025.