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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.
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