LAVINIA LASCARIS


Selected projects

︎︎︎ Primarium: A Case for Cursive
︎︎︎ Digital Witness
︎︎︎ Quasi: Experimental Writing Systems
︎︎︎ Do you have a platypus?
︎︎︎ Thumbs up to the thugs
︎︎︎ Polski Projekt
︎︎︎ Redact, Rewrite, Reframe
︎︎︎ Mujeres Hispanas y Tipografía
︎︎︎ Captcha this
︎︎︎ 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 Creative Director at Hoffmitz Milken Center for Typography (HMCT), and faculty at ArtCenter College of Design.


Talks
Thought at Work 2025
Seen Around the World 2025
Typographics 2023
Letrastica 2022
Command Z Podcast
AirTalk

ArtCenter, Lecture series (spring 22)
Book Club of California


Awards/Recognition
TDC Communication Design 2024

Quasi: Experimental Writing Systems

ISTD Awards 2024

Quasi: Experimental Writing Systems

ISTD Awards 2024

Mujeres Hispanas y Tipografía

PPN Book Show 202: Best in Show

Mujeres Hispanas y Tipografía

IDA Design Awards 2022 

Baby Ink Twice: Letterpress posters by Dafi Kühne

Commarts 2020

Mike/Sierra/Tango: An Exhibition About Multi-Script Typefaces

TDC Communication Design 2020

Plan B: Spirit of the Bauhaus

TDC Communication Design 2020

Idiot (MFA Thesis)

GDUSA Graphic Design 2019

Plan B: Spirit of the Bauhaus

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)
Eye on Design
Justified: HMCT Profile


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




C4PTCH4 TH1S

︎︎︎research ︎︎︎educational program ︎︎︎identity design ︎︎︎installation (WIP)

A multi-platform program that studies the linguistic trends born within digital communication platforms, the transformative effects of emergent technologies on our use of languages, and what these occurrences reveal about the future of communication.


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IDIOT (GRAD THESIS)

︎︎︎research ︎︎︎trasmedia ︎︎︎book design

TDC Communication Design Winner 2020


A study on contemporary privacy and camouflage, Idiot approaches the notion of concealment and protection through ubiquity. I blurred the boundaries of my own identity by creating a plurality of simulated and simultaneous presences, surrendering my privacy in order to reinstate it.


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NICE (FELLOWSHIP)
︎︎︎research ︎︎︎exhibition design ︎︎︎catalog
As the 2018 HMCT Typography Fellow, I worked alongside typographer-in-residence Lucienne Roberts on the research, development, and curation of nice. The exhibition studies the power of slogans, the definition of a “nice typeface,” the influence of texts in relationship to typography, and the threats from which the human race needs to be “saved.”

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