Type
Graphic 


 From
Helvetica
To
An accordion book featuring Jeepnetica, a variable font expanded from the classic

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Poor Theory
following Ackbar Abbas, typographic sculpture made out of scraps

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 Motion design for Maximize exhibition at RISD
done via Cavalry


Optimalism
 MFA Graphic Design Thesis

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Signs of the Timescoded a InDesign script to design a zine featuring a Marshall Berman essay

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Uniform Book Series
on plaid patterns and human patterns

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LoL
Visual Mixer
web tool that takes Red Yellow Blue White from webcam as clipping masks for images and containers for text



WORLD UNFAIR
An expanded studio project on globalization, labor and reuse

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RISD MFA
GD Bienniala hyper-aware identity entitled For Reference Only¹ 

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Sacred Spacesa photobook documenting the similarities of the church and the mall 

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Tanturaa hyper-aware identity entitled For Reference Only¹

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Séancevisual system for Manila music producer crwn’s debut album 


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Catalina’sbrand identity developed for a merienda staple in Palawan

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Reharvest & Repairidentity for an initiative from industrial design professors at RISD

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Me and Typhoonsmy personal essay + data visualization about typhoons in the Philippines

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Balay Kōbōsignage and identity systemfor a creative home + studio combining Filipino and Japanese sensibilities

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Ang Manileñacustom masthead for the Philippine capital’s own take of The New Yorker

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World Fair Zinea publication related to WORLD UNFAIR, verso reveals a new detail with every page turn

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Atlas 2024black and white publication and exhibition design for RISD class 
of 2026

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 Nookea brand signature for a bespoke furniture design company in Manila

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Fatima Sound Practicebrand and product development for a hi-fi sound system company inspired by locality and the spiritual

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WorkAbroadrebrand for the Philippines’ biggest recruitment agency case study soon



Subject
Livinga custom ambigram for a rising 
interior home brand

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Mabuhay Font Superfamily

Clara Cayosa

graphic designer and creative strategist with a brain for systems, an ear for the human, and a trained eye for detail. 

working in the intersection of graphic design, systems and culture. Type design is treated as cultural work via Tipong Pilipino

previously: designer at Franklyn NY. Recently graduated from RISD MFA in Graphic Design with a thesis entitled Optimalism.



visual identity, brand strategy, typography, type design, art direction, web design and development, photography, dance, etc

AwardsRISDHenry Wolf Award, 2025
Gonda Fund, 2024
Graduate Fellowship, 2024

TYPE DESIGNUpdike Prize, 2023

Malee Scholar, 2020

LETTERFORM ARCHIVETypeWest Scholarship, 2023

WorkFranklyn Studio NY, 2025
Mestiza Estudio
FR, 2022

And A Half
PH, 2017-2020
Education
Rhode Island School 
of Design
MFA Graphic Design
May 2026

Letterform Archive
Type Design
2023

Teaching
Letterforming
Course Instructor
RISD, JAN 2026

Advance Type Design
Instructor
ADMU, 2024
Features
Rolling Stones Phillippines
How Filipino Type Designers are Preserving Cultural Legacy

CNN Life
How Dance and Design Intersect

Letterform Archive
Student Spotlight: Seven Years of Type Design Graduates
 
Mabuhay Regular in use on an exhibition on Philippine textiles @ RISD Museum

Ventures Fatima Sound Practice

Tipong Pilipino

Atulu Pottery Project    

etc.When I'm not designing, I climb, row, run, dance, and brew coffee for people I care about. I’m perpetually reading two books at once: one on design, one for everything else.
Contact




clara@clarasees.com
clarasees
in/clarasees/







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


DesignType
From Helvetica Toa specimen for a variable typeface 

Poor Theorymake do with what you have


OptimalismMFA Thesis, RISD GD
Signs of the Timeszine via custom InDesign script 
Uniform Book Seriesseries of 4 exploring uniform plaids and human patterns

LoL Visual Mixercoded a web tool

Poor Theorymake do with what you have

Tropikalye Poster
Tricy City poster
© Clara Cayosa, 2026
© Clara Cayosa, 2026