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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.
Late update in 2025