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CHEN LUO                

Chen Luo is a graphic designer and educator based in Maryland. In 2026, she will join Howard University as an Assistant Professor of Graphic Design. She has previously taught at MICA, the SMFA at Tufts University, Boston University, and UMass. Chen maintains an independent design practice, collaborating primarily with artists, galleries, and cultural institutions. She is also the co-founder of Body&Forma, a collective design practice that bridges linguistic and cultural barriers through publishing and performative workshops. Her work reconfigures reading and writing gestures as bodily acts, transforming static materials into participatory, communal, and kinetic forms of publishing. She currently explores how embodied publishing can engage diverse readerships and foster communal experiences. Her work has been recognized by Communication Arts, NewOne Awards, Design 360°, Boston Art Review, and The Young Ones TDC, and exhibited in Canada, Italy, Japan, China, Korea, and the United States.

Earthwriting

Zine and Identity Design
2025

A zine I designed for Magdalena Poost’s collection at the Greenway Public Art, bringing together performance scripts, poetry, essays, and images from eight artists responding to the urgencies of climate change, extractive capitalism, and shifting ground beneath our feet. Inspired by Sharad Chari’s idea of earth-writing and Clara Wilch’s vision of spaciousness through the arts, it invites readers to imagine new forms of public art and shared space. More map than book, it gestures toward porous futures where creativity, infrastructure, and ecology meet.
Awakening the Dragon: Role Playing Guide

Workshop Identity Design
2026

This visual identity was created for Awakening the Dragon: Role Playing Guide Workshop, a participatory event led by Lani Asunción and Joanna Tam as part of the Hidden Histories Artists-in-Residence program and The Reckonings Project Community Network Series exploring Boston’s dragon boat histories, archival memory, and AANHPI community narratives. The design combines bold typography with a custom icon system inspired by dragon boats, waves, paddling, masks, and collective storytelling, creating a visual language that feels ceremonial, active, and communal.
2026 Dewey Square Mural
Request for Qualification

Media Assets Identity Design
2026

A visual identity series highlights the open call, introduces the jurors, and presents the selected proposal. This landmark commission represents a significant moment of artistic and civic engagement in celebration of the nation’s 250th anniversary, expanding America’s story while envisioning the next 250 years. The 2026 Dewey Square Mural on The Greenway is developed in partnership with Embrace and Everyone250.
Interstitial Lives

Visual Identity and workshop
2023

Visual identity and plant-drawing workshop created for artist Che Yeh’s exhibition Interstitial Lives. The project fosters cross-species kinship between Boston Chinatown residents, passersby, and ruderal plants growing in urban interstices, focusing on the Ailanthus altissima (“tree of heaven”) as a living monument to resilience and memory. The workshop, Plants on Hands, co-designed with Bella Tuo, invited participants to observe, collect, and illustrate local plants using a custom toolkit with stencils and colored pencils, encouraging empathy, care, and connection to place through hands-on creative practice.


Late update in 2025