BY_PEREZ

A Mexican-American graphic designer and artist based in North Carolina that works across in print production, branding, installation, and museum contexts. Their interdisciplinary practice uses design to explore the relationship between identity, culture, and visual communication—drawing from personal experience.

With a BFA in Graphic Design and minor in Art History from Appalachian State University, they have contributed to exhibitions, freelance projects, and institutional work, including the Nasher Museum of Art.

ABOUT PEREZ

Karol Perez (she/they) is a designer based in North Carolina creating dynamic print and digital media for brands, organizations, and institutions. They received their BFA from Appalachian State University, and have worked in print production, freelance design, and most recently at the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University.

As a Mexican-American artist living and working in the United States, Karol’s work is deeply influenced by revolutionary Latin American movements and the designs that fueled them. She is particularly inspired by Chicano posters, as well as other design movements including brutalism and anti-design. Her designs play with texture, legibility, and movement, examining notions of identity, culture, and decolonization. Through warping and scanning, appropriation of found media, and bilingual translation, their designs are equally dizzying and compelling.

Karol aspires to work with and for BIPOC and multilingual design spaces, and aims to create graphics that are both subversive and revolutionary.