Lau Huaranga (they/them) is a peruvian Graphic Designer and Creative Director living and working in New York City. Lau’s multidisciplinary design practice explores the affective potential of letters, sound, and moving image through creative technology, type design and video with a focus on branding and identity design projects. Lau holds a BFA from RISD, and is a recent grad GDMFA graduate of Yale University, class of 2020.

Portfolio upon request. ︎︎︎

Education

2018–2020
MFA, Graphic Design
Yale University School of Art

August 2019
Materia Abierta Residency
Novo Pan Klub
UNAM, CDMX

2008–2012
BFA, Graphic Design
Rhode Island School of Design
Brown University



Teaching

2023
Pratt Institute, Adjunct Professor
Branding design

2020
Parsons, The New School, Adjunct Professor
Experimental Typography course

2019-2020
Yale University School of Art, Teaching Assistant
Type Design and Digital Video

2019
Yale College, Guest critic
Design and Activism

2018
Rutgers University Mason Gross School, Guest Lecturer
Graphic Design course

Selected clients

Apple
ARPA Journal
BIG Architects
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
Carrier
Coppel Group
Columbia GSAPP
Columbia Journalism Review
Fullstack Modular
Google
LEGO
Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art
Museum of the City of New York
MIT
National Science and Technology Medals Foundation
Nautilus Magazine
Neutrogena
Red Bull Music Academy
RogersPartners Architects
Vonage
Yale School of Art
Yale School of Architecture
Zappos