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
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