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CHEN LUO                

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.
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