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it·say·ana

I’m a Designer & Lecturer based in Los Angeles, CA. I am interested in visual narratives that are playful, subversive, and play with the viewers familiarity. My work spans across digital and physical formats with deep sensibility to medium, concept, audience, accessibility, and lifecycle. 




Current


Candy Digital
Senior Designer

Freelance
Designer
Lectures


Intro to Web Coding
Otis College of Art & Design
Spring 2022

Experimental Type
Otis College of Art & Design
Fall 2022
Recognitions


Society of Typographic Arts
STA 100 - 2020
Lumpen Magazine

The Wire Magazine
Radio Activity: Issue 449
Orange Radio

PNTFS Website


Web Design & Visual Design
Cultivating new worlds in web3. Palm NFT Studio is a technology company focused on redefining fan engagement; working with the world’s leading creators to develop breakthrough NFT experiences.

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Role
Designer

Studio
Palm NFT Studio






Chainletter


Brand Identity & Web Design
Chainletter is a quarterly project that explores the emerging ecology of Web3. The first issue, The Generativity, Issue, centers code as material, looking at generativity in a post-AI world.

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Role
Designer

Studio
Palm NFT Studio






PNFTS Brand


Brand Identity
Palm NFT Studio is creating the infrastructure for identifying, engaging, and retaining deep vertical communities; empowering the world’s leading creators with the resources to unlock their superfans.
Role
Designer

Studio
Palm NFT Studio






Uber Guidelines


UX/UI Design
Ube’s guidelines were developed to help make every experience feel safe, respectful, and positive. These set of pages break down the code of conduct in a visual and didactic way.

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Role
Designer

Studio
HAUS Los Angeles






Lumpen 137


Publication Design
Issue 137 of Lumpen joins the Hyde Park Art Center’s Artists Run Chicago 2.0 exhibition in celebrating the city’s artist-driven projects. The magazine was a chance to not only honor but also to research and to hear out from the artists and organizers running platforms for other artists and communities in the city.
Role
Senior Designer

Studio
Some All None






The Quarantine Times


Publication Design
On March 17, 2020, Quarantine Times started publishing the works of over 250 artists online after the city-mandated shut down brought life as we knew it to a halt. Now, almost exactly one-year later, Public Media Institute (PMI) is thrilled to announce the publication of The Quarantine Times book on March 20, 2021. The 500+ page tome features over 151 contributions from Chicago-based artists, social workers, and thinkers responding to the crises of 2020.
Role
Senior Designer

Studio
Some All None






Orange Radio


Web Design &  Web Development
Orange Radio is a radio station streaming from Los Angeles & beyond. Started in 2016, they have become a global, community-driven space for sharing diverse voices and media. 

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Role
Designer

Studio
it·say·ana






The Decade of Rethinking Everything


Web Design & Web Development
A publication built as a desktop website. TDORE follows the story of how climate change was defeated from the year 2020 to 2030. Exploring a range of topics from policitcs, self, technology, and beyond, TDORE subvertrs the medium of print and forcasts for an optimistic future. 

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Designer

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it·say·ana






Bits


Publication Design
Bits is a publication anchored in anotomical explorations around an object, concept, or thought. Open to all exploration, Bits aims at finding deeper meaning behind surface level truths.
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Designer

Studio
it·say·ana






We Shape Spaces That Shape Us


Web Experience Design, Web Development
Designed as an online exhibition, Spaces explores the fluidity between digital spaces and physical spaces through the themes of visibility, bodies, and looking. The exhibition consists of three rooms with interactive elements and audio pieces.

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Designer

Studio
it·say·ana






Where Are the Plastic Bags?


Web Experience Design, Web Development, Campaign Design 
Where are the Plastic Bags is the result from a workshop with Konstantinos Richas and Vera van de Seyp. The campaign uses a web and print component to engage consciousness about plastic bag use and recycling.

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Designer

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Vera van de Seyp
Konstantinos Richas