RACHEL FAZIO

Rachel is a graphic designer and illustrator based in Los Angeles who specializes in branding, publication, and music packaging design. They graduated with their Bachelor of Design from University of Washington and are currently completing their MFA in Graphic Design at CalArts.

Rachel is currently working as the Social Media Manager for Organic Control, Inc. (2024–present) and creating merchandise for various local musicians like Janna Jamison and Underexposed (Garrett Rahn). They worked as a Content Creator for Forem, DEV, and Codenewbie (2022–2024) and as an Art and English Teacher at Fusion Academy (2021–2022). Rachel has been working as a professional graphic designer, mostly centered around brand design in collaboration with local brands and artists since 2018.

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I WAS SEDUCED BY GAY TYPE!
Publication
2026
8
THE UNKNOWN
Publication
2026
7
ROOTED TERRITORIES
Branding
2025
6
ADDING SOIL AMENDMENTS
Publication
2026
5
JANNA JAMISON
Branding
2024–2026
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DEV
Branding
2022–2024
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LA CHIMERA
Title Sequence
2026
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I FOUND THE F
Music Video
2025
1
MUSIC BOX SANS
Type Design
2025
6    ADDING SOIL AMENDMENTS
TYPE: PUBLICATION
2026


Adding Soil Amendments is a design manifesto that I wrote in the form of a zine, arguing for a more non-humanocentric design discipline. This book chronicles my apartment complex’s work to make a regenerative agriculture project out of the eroded land in the front of our building, which I use as a metaphor to discuss the importance of radical optimism in resistance spaces. I discuss the many trials and tribulations of building a garden in an urban space, especially one with soil almost exclusively composed of decomposed granite. The writing in this work is also deeply joyful, explaining how creating social and regenerative community spaces within something like an apartment complex can inspire our ability to create better world systems.

As we know it, our ability to change the world for the better is dependent on our imagination to do so, and for me the site of change I have chosen is broadening our scope of what is possible within graphic design as a discipline. To expand the discipline to keep it for further generations, we must queer our entire notions of how to create more joyful and equitable communities within graphic design and the larger design atmosphere.