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NEW HAVEN / CT
LAST UPDATED 10/23

My name is Gabby, and I live in a dorm room the size of a shoebox. Most of this work lives on my walls or under my bed.

I grew up in Manila and currently study graphic design (among many other things) at Yale. My practice largely explores the hyper-personal, the handmade and the ephemeral, and I’m interested in design as a tool for building community and in reimagining more mindful and personal alternatives to our current design systems. I also like making people laugh. On campus, I’m a graphic design assistant at the Yale Center for British Art, Head of Creative at 17o1 Records and Design at Yale Co-President, and I spent my last summer illustrating for luxury fashion brand Bode. 

I personally see design as the materialization of love and attention. It’s kind of like building a cathedral: to design is to carve out space and time for something outside of yourself in hopes that it will outlive you.

It’s very nice to meet you!