Hi, I’m Lexi, a New York-based graphic designer exploring the intersections of advocacy, education, and design.

A is for Access

Gif of a spiral bound book titled, "Amid Access" flipping through different spreads.

How do we as designers control the narrative and visual meaning of accessibility?

With 1.3 billion people having a significant disability, how we create access and who we include in the process is essential to providing adequate support.

Focusing on accessible design beyond function, A is for Access highlights work emphasizing delight, personal expression, and innovation for people with disabilities. The project is composed of three complementary projects: a digital archive, a book, and a manifesto.

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︎︎︎ Course: CD Thesis
︎︎︎ Role: Writing & Research, Editorial Design
︎︎︎ Deliverables: Spiral-Bound Book, Mini Design Manifesto

From Print to Motion

Rough Style Frames:

First style frame: a grayscale photo-realistic hand is holding a clock, with an index finger on the timer switch. Black text on a beige background reads, "You have to." Grey text next to the index finger says " act " multiple times around the frame."

Second style frame: a grayscale photo of young Angela Davis speaking into a microphone on a beige background. A Pink triangle echoes out from her mouth, with black text inside the area that reads, "Radically." The text repeats multiple times and overlaps to fill the space.

Third style frame: a grayscale photo of Earth on a beige background. There is black text around the Earth photo that says, "Transform the world and." A colored picture of older Angela Davis with an arm in the air in protest. A small orange button next to the image says "Free Angela." On the right of the world are a white and orange "A Rally for Angela" poster and a transparent historical newspaper with the headline "Angela Davis: A Call for Action." There's a pink triangle coming in from the right side into the right side of the Earth, connecting the previous frame.

Fifth style frame: grayscale photo of Angela Davis centered on a beige background. Behind the image is a collage containing a historical newspaper, text from a speech, and her signature. There is orange text that reads "all the time."

Fourth style frame: A large yellow arrow moving left to right takes up the whole frame, with beige text that reads "you have to."

Sixth (last) style frame: a digitized version of a Studio Two Three poster of Angela Davis. Handwritten black text around the frame reads, "You have to act as if it were possible to radically transform the world. And you have to do it all of the time." To the left of the poster is a grayscale photo of Angela Davis, with a golden circle behind her head. The background is a split, with bright orange on top and pink on the bottom that slightly blends.

How can motion activate existing posters and tell more of the story with design?

This assignment brought to life one of my favorite printed objects I own, a risograph poster print of Angela Davis, designed by Studio Two Three.

Bringing to life the original work of Studio Two Three, the project includes type, historical ephemera, and print-collaging technicques to expand on the passion and important message from Angela Davis.

“You have to act as if it were possible to radically transform the world and you have to do it all of the time.” – Angela Davis

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︎︎︎ Course: Motion Graphics Studio
︎︎︎ Role: Motion Designer
︎︎︎ Original Poster Design: Studio Two Three
︎︎︎ Music: "Swinging Sofas Remastered” by Lobo Loco

Somewhere Feelings

Hand holding open a baby board book. Text reads, "Together we'll walk this road. Whatever you feel is completely okay, we'll figure out the rest of your day." On the center of the page are two hands holding eachother, with various shapes around them. The shapes have different emotional expressions.

Two baby board books on top of each other. The beige cover has the text "Somewhere" in all caps black around, and the inside reads "feelings" in rainbow, each letter a different color.

Page of baby board book that reads, "Sometimes I sit right on your shoulders." Various colored shapes sit on a black silhouette of a shoulder (on the left). Baby board book "Somewhere Feelings" next to a frog stuffed animal on a pink bed with white pillows (on the right).

Process deck title slide for "Somewhere Feelings."

Assignment overview: design and write a 7 page baby board book.

Baby Board Book concept: show how emotions manifest in our bodies.

References and Design Research: "Henri's Walk to Paris" by Leonore Klein and Saul Bass and "Goodnight Everyone" by Chris Haughton.

Sketches for spreads of "Somewhere Feelings."

Spread 1, "oh look, you found me! Right now I'm blue, and sometimes I'm green."

Spread 2, "I move where you feel I need to be. Can you find me?"

Spread 3, "Sometimes I'm at the top of your head. Feel me with a shake or a jump out of bed."

Spread 4, "Sometimes I beat fast near your heart, speak me out to tear me apart."

Spread 5, "Sometimes I sit right on your shoulders, speak me out to feel a little bolder."

Spread 6, "Don't bottle me up, don't let me explode."

Spread 7, "Together we will walk this road. Whatever you feel is completely okay, we'll figure out the rest of your day."

hand holding the baby board book "Somewhere Feelings" against a white wall.

How can we create a safe space to engage + process our emotions in our bodies for both caregivers and children?

Somewhere Feelings was developed with DERT Books to guide readers through understanding how we can feel emotions in our bodies.

Inspired by child development research (Bodily Maps of Emotions, 2013), the feelings discussed have an associated action to activate or release their impact.

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︎︎︎ Client: DERT Books
︎︎︎ Roles: Editorial Design, Writer
︎︎︎ Collaborators: Marcos Chavez
︎︎︎ Deliverables: Baby Board Book

Speculative Fridays For Future Exhibit

Speculative Fridays for Future catalog cover.

On the left is a detail shot of speculative "Fridays" museum catalog with dates of Fridays for Future protest since 2018. On the right is an inside of the book, with display of the grid with primary and secondary text from climate speech, with a photo.

Detail shot of "Fridays" speculative museum catalog showing two grayscale photos of Greta Thunberg protesting in 2018.

Detail photo of Fridays for Future protest dates folio.

Video flipping through a speculative museum catalog titled "Fridays" for a Fridays for Future exhibition.

Speculative MoMA exhibition website screenshot.

Merch design of a black short-sleeve tshirt with the fridays for future chant, "climate justice is what we need, not billionaires or corporate greed." To the right is a white baggu design with green text that reads, "FRIDAYS" in a linear pattern.

Two white t-shirt mockups for Fridays for Future.

How has the Fridays for Future movement grown and impacted climate policy today?

This speculative MoMA PS1 exhibit ‘Fridays’ explores a closed-loop exhibition experience and experiments with a historical timeline data project of the 195+ weekly protests held around the world.

*Please note: this is a university project.

︎︎︎ Course: Multiple Editions
︎︎︎ Role: Graphic Designer
︎︎︎ Deliverables: Exhibition Catalog, Merch

Darcy Miller Designs

Animation of 12 people at a dinner table with calligraphy reading, "Happu Holidays."

animation of a pool and related icons that spell out "Summer" and smaller type that reads, "30 Ways to Celebrate Summer."

Two Instagram screenshots of craft media from @DarcyMiller on a gray background. Left screenshot has graduation poppers, and the right has chocolate bars with DIY stamps and templates to look like parcels for Valentine's Day.

What does centering celebration as a brand value look like across multiple mediums?

Working freelance for Darcy Miller Designs, I assisted with creating ideas for socials, animating drawings for short stop motions, assisting with email campaigns, photo retouching, and freelance design strategy.

Some images displayed are ideas brought to life by Team Darcy, while others I assisted in production.

*All illustrations and text are copyrighted to Darcy Miller Designs.*

︎︎︎ Client: Darcy Miller Designs
︎︎︎ Role: Graphic Designer + Studio Assistant
︎︎︎ Deliverables: Stop Motions, Editorial, Strategy

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