At four years old, I was already decorating my parents’ walls with drawings, eventually moving from crayons to charcoal and acrylic paints. Later, armed with a Commodore 64 desktop and 300 baud modem, I wrote my first code and joined the dial-up internet.
Today, I am a multidisciplinary artist specializing in website design, logos, posters, and postcards, using graphic design and illustration to help clients meet their communications goals.
With a professional background in social sciences, popular education, arts administration, grant writing, and community program development, I am perfectly positioned to develop design solutions that meet the needs of individuals, businesses, and non-profit organizations.
I am also a published poet and essayist whose writing explores the interweaving of history with the urgent task of creating a new culture of social justice. You can read me in journals, blogs, and real paper books.
I look forward to discussing my work with you!
Mangos With Chili needed postcards for our 2008 tour. He did a beautiful job, especially considering that he was working with two design challenged people prone to saying things like, “Uh, we like the color pink… and yellow… uh, just make it look nice?” He was patient, flexible, and did great at translating our vague-ass ideas into a beautiful, eye-popping card.
– Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
