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CHEN LUO                

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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.
BU MFA Poster Collection 2019–22
 
Publication
2022

Posters serve as a canvas for inquiry, exploration, and interpretation: a tool benefiting both the designer seeking a surface and audiences seeking visual stimulation. A poster communicates many things and takes different shapes. It is a process of form-making, a manifestation of language and culture, a type specimen, a form of protest, or a device for documenting, celebrating or promoting an event. This book gathers together a collection of posters produced by Boston University MFA Graphic Design students between 2019 and 2022 (a period that covers online, hybrid, and in-person teaching). The posters, generated during a particularly complicated time, celebrate the open-minded, exploratory, and boundless spirit of students. The book also includes interviews with design educators and BU faculty, alumni, and MFA candidates. 
Designed and edited by Chen Luo and Chuck Gonzales
Late update in 2025