Art in Dialogue: Diasporican: Design Perspectives on Identity and Culture with Jason Alejandro

In partnership with the Department of Art, Architecture & Design (AAD)

In this talk, Puerto Rican designer and educator Jason Alejandro will share his insights into his hybrid practice as a graphic design educator and researcher. Jason’s experience as a book designer underpins his approach to developing creative work focusing on Puerto Rico’s history, language, and identity. In addition, he will provide some recent research into the life and work of famed Puerto Rican artist and designer Lorenzo Homar.

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Jason Alejandro is a designer, educator, and visual artist whose work explores the intersections of Puerto Rican identity, visual culture, and typographic form. His creative practice examines how language, memory, and history shape design, often engaging questions of decolonization and critical pedagogy through both his studio and client work. Jason approaches design as both a cultural artifact and a mode of inquiry—an opportunity to explore how visual form participates in the broader narratives of identity, language, and resistance. He is an Associate Professor of Graphic Design at The College of New Jersey, where he teaches courses in design, typography, and communication history. Over the past decade, he has also taught at Rutgers University, Kean University, Lehigh University, and the University of Pennsylvania. Jason earned his MFA in Graphic Design from the Vermont College of Fine Arts. With more than twenty years of professional experience, he has worked as a designer and art director for a range of institutions and creative agencies, producing work in branding, digital design, and publication design. His independent practice focuses on projects in publishing, education, and typography, with clients including Johnson & Johnson, Princeton University, Harvard University, Stanford University Press, MIT Press, University of Chicago, Penguin Random House, Verso Books, and Rolling Stone. Jason’s work has been exhibited internationally, and has been recognized by Communication Arts, the Society of Typographic Arts, the Association of University Presses, the Book Industry Guild of New York, and the Art Directors Club. For more information visit: https://jasonalejandro.com/

Art in Dialogue is a series of interdisciplinary conversations between members of the university and the wider community - reflecting the ways in which their work is dynamically engaged with other fields of inquiry.