From Helvetica
To
An accordion book featuring Jeepnetica, a variable font developed after Helvetica’s points
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WORLD UNFAIR
An expanded studio project on globalization, labor and reuse
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RISD MFA
GD Bienniala hyper-aware graphic design, identity entitled For Reference Only¹
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Séanceart direction and visual 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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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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Subject
Livinga custom ambigram for a rising
interior home brand
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Thank you for being here.
I'm Clara, currently at RISD for an MFA in Graphic Design. A graphic designer who also develops typefaces, I've also taught typography and type design classes and run Tipong Pilipino, an incubator for Filipino type design.
My thesis entitled Optimalism is set to be published this May. More on this soon...
visual identity, strategy and brand development, typography and type design, art direction, books, web design and development, dance choreography and other commissions
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
Graphic — Index
If you are interested in using any of custom typefaces, type specimens and licensing are available upon request.
Please send me an email:
clara@clarasees.com