LAVINIA LASCARIS

Selected projects
︎︎︎ Quasi
︎︎︎ Do you have a platypus?
︎︎︎ Thumbs up to the thugs
︎︎︎ Polski Projekt
︎︎︎ Redact, Rewrite, Reframe
︎︎︎ Mujeres Hispanas y Tipografía
︎︎︎ Captcha this
︎︎︎ Baby ink twice
︎︎︎ Mike/Sierra/Tango
︎︎︎ Plan B: Spirit of the Bauhaus
︎︎︎ Idiot (grad thesis)
︎︎︎ Nice (fellowship)

Info
Graphic designer from Greece, based in Los Angeles, specializing in exhibition and book design with a focus on typography. Currently the Associate Director of Design and Programming at Hoffmitz Milken Center for Typography (HMCT), and faculty at ArtCenter College of Design.


Talks
Typographics 2023
Letrastica 2022
AirTalk
Command Z Podcast
ArtCenter, Lecture series (spring 22)
Book Club of California


Awards/Recognition
PPN Book Show 2023: Best in Show: Mujeres Hispanas y Tipografía
IDA Design Awards 2022: Baby Ink Twice
Commarts 2020: Mike/Sierra/Tango
TDC Communication Design 2020: Plan B
TDC Communication Design 2020: Idiot
GDUSA Graphic Design 2019: Plan B
HMCT Typography Fellowship 2018


Press
Hyperallergic
San Gabriel Valley Tribune
The Daily Heller (10/13/23)
The Daily Heller (09/29/23)
The Daily Heller (01/18/23)
Shoutout LA
Voyage LA
Eye on Design
Justified: HMCT Profile


Contact
lavinialascaris@gmail.com
Instagram
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LAVINIA LASCARIS
Graphic design, Exhibition design, Research








Thumbs up to the thugs
Personal project, 2020

Thumbs up to the thugs is a video piece that was inspired by a Vice Article about Google Translate delivering absurd translations when fed nonsensical input. It is an example of what happens when machine learning attempts to make sense out of nonsense. I experimented with translating random syllables from different languages to english. The video is a screen recording from Google Translate that documented what happened when I typed “agagaga...” repeatedly, translating from Somali to English.