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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.
Trash Museum (of Dust)

Zine 
2025

A zine I designed for Yolanda’s residency project, which she poetically traces construction and demolition waste at the RAIR Philly site. The publication becomes a navigable extension of the on-site tour or a guide outside the yard, a space where walking, listening, mapping, and reading can come together. Thinking about type, tour, voiceover, and scannable codes as forms of “printed dust,” each element drifts, settles, and floats across the pages. The dotted map leads readers through the zine the way one might move through the yard, following paths and pausing at description tags. I was interested in creating an embodied experience that invites readers to move, orient, and discover as they encounter the work.
Late update in 2025