V is an LA–based graphic designer working in the world of visual identity systems, editorial, and signage design. They’re most energized by multidisciplinary teams, good type, and any project with a story at its core.
Off the clock, they can be found drawing, climbing, and perusing the prepared food section at their local Mitsuwa.
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– Art Institute of Chicago
– Bohlin Cywinski Jackson
– Gibson Art Museum
– Harvard University
– IN-FO.CO
– Institute of Contemporary Arts, LA
– Inventory Press
– Snap, Inc.
– ELLA
– MAK Center for Art and Architecture
– Mandeville Art Gallery
– Martin Grasser
– Monkeypaw Productions
– NBCUniversal
– Rice University
This companion paperback to the critically-acclaimed film Us features Oscar®-winning director Jordan Peele’s screenplay illustrated with over 150 stills from the motion picture, deleted scenes, an introduction by the filmmaker, and in-depth annotations.
I partnered with IN-FO.CO as lead designer, collaborating closely with Monkeypaw Productions and NBCUniversal from concept through production. My main challenge was to build on the established visual identity in the series’s first title, Get Out, while introducing new elements that felt authentic to Us. In this multi-year project, my responsibilities included auditing the first book to understand its pacing, studying screenplay formats to inform more faithful typesetting, and rewatching the film scene-by-scene to identify key visual moments. I also curated film stills for the interior and selected the wrap-around cover image, which encapsulates the film’s theme of duality and subtly foreshadows a central narrative twist.
In 2025, Film at Lincoln Center featured the book at their event, The Other America: A Cosmology of Jordan Peele’s Us. Read more about it here.
Softcover
4 ¼ × 7 inches
208 pages
Published by Inventory Press
Completed at IN-FO.CO
Reading Room was an exhibition hosted by the MAK Center for Art and Architecutre, featuring LA artists and designers in the world of print. The modular exhibition graphics are built around a 2 x 8 inch bookmark and boast a lively palette with type by Forgotton Shapes.
Working within a tight turnaround time of a couple of weeks, I expanded early iterations of the identity system and translated it across key exhibition collateral like brochures, information cards, title walls, and outdoor signage. I worked closely with local printer TypeCraft to prepare final production files.
Exhibition photography by Joshua Schaedel/MAK Center for Art and Architecture
Print collateral photography by V.E. Chen
Completed at IN-FO.CO
The Marianne and Edward Gibson Art Museum is a new cultural space fostering inclusive learning and critical inquiry through its visual arts programming at Simon Fraser University.
For this project, I followed established brand guidelines to design and prepare production files and templates for title wall graphics, posters, brochures, badges, and merch for the museum’s inaugural exhibition, Edge Effects. I also typeset signage throughout the building, including the museum’s main entrance sign, and prepared production-ready files for fabricators.
Event and building photographs by Eugene Doudko and Rachel Topham Photography
Exhibition collateral photographs by V.E. Chen
Completed at IN-FO.CO
A Queer Year of Love Letters: Alphabets Against Erasure is a toolkit for writing and preserving queer and trans histories. Building on Nat Pyper’s series of fonts, whose letterforms draw from the life stories and printed traces of countercultural queers over the past decades, this book pairs overlooked biographies with previously unseen archival materials, while highlighting Pyper’s distinctive approach to designing fonts as vessels for memory.
As Design Lead, I led the art direction throughout the project and oversaw production details. In addition to designing the cover and layout, I created type specimen pages and over twenty unique pull quote illustrations using the twelve fonts highlighted in the book.
Softcover
6 × 9 inches
136 pages
Published by Inventory Press
Photographs by V.E. Chen
Completed at IN-FO.CO
Squares is a generative fine art project by Martin Grasser that reimagines the artist’s early analog paintings in an expansive digital form. The project utilizes code to explore a wide spectrum of color and texture through layered, rectilinear forms. In 2022, Squares was published on the leading generative art platform Art Blocks, where all 196 iterations were minted within an hour of release. Read more about the project on Art Blocks.
On this project, I worked with a multidisciplinary team of designers and developers. My responsibilities included identifying and refining a range of color palettes and shapes and communicating these findings to our developers, who then translated this information into code.
Completed at And Repeat
A sample of minted artworks
Exhaustive color palette explorations and refinements in Miro with the team