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CHEN LUO                

TEACHING
CLIENT 
RESEARCH

Chen Luo is a Graphic Designer based in Maryland. She serves as a thesis adviser at MICA. She has taught at MICA, Tufts SMFA, Boston University, and UMass from 2022 to 2025. Chen is the co-founder of Body&Forma, a collective design practice focused on bridging language barriers through publishing and performative workshops. Her work has been awarded and 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. Her work shares a language of reconfiguring reading/writing gestures into bodily acts, turning static materials into participatory, communal, and kinetic forms of publishing. She currently explores how embodied publishing forms a diverse readership and communal experience.
Embodied Making as Collective Publishing 

Public Workshop, Zine 
2022–23

During the workshop, participants explored the relationship between the body and Hanzi (Chinese characters) through a series of hands-on exercises to create collaborative, wearable posters. Participants practiced writing Hanzi at a large scale by making a human-proportioned poster. Together, they explored how embodied making can inform collective publishing. How can embodied making create a space for collective exchange and expression? What does collective publishing look like through collaborative labor in a shared space and time? What are the ways that we can examine the boundaries between bodies and print, typography and space, and the individual to the collective?
Late update in 2025