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 the Associate Director of Design and Programming 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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