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.

SELECTED WORKTYPEYR
9
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
4
DEV
Branding
2022–2024
3
LA CHIMERA
Title Sequence
2026
2
I FOUND THE F
Music Video
2025
1
MUSIC BOX SANS
Type Design
2025

9    I WAS SEDUCED BY GAY TYPE!
TYPE: PUBLICATION
2026


Do we know what legacy other queer typographers have left in print design? “I Was Seduced By Gay Type!” is a zine for a speculative exhibition on explicitly queer print design and type design made by designers in America. This work references queer archives throughout the country, specifically the Lesbian Herstory Archives, Houston LGBT History, Gay Rodeo History, Digital Transgender Archive, St. Louis Queer History Portal, Queer Archive Work Library, Arizona Queer Archives, and Queer Music Heritage. 

This project works to fill in gaps that are left in the design archive where queer people should be recognized, especially in a discipline that has a large population of LGBTQIA+ people.

Queer type,  by my definition, can include:
  1. Type that works against existing systems of homophobia and transphobia, gendered norms, and capitalist patriarchy, but is normally intrinsicly also tied to all liberatory work fighting against racism, sexism, violence/war, exploitation, ableism, one-right-way-isms, oppression, control, or binary-thinking, especially for queer people.
  2. Type that has worked as literal or metaphorical codes for queer people to communicate publicly.
  3. Hand-drawn type or type designs made by queer people.
  4. Type that teaches us new things about the fluidity of gender, the experiences of queer people, and our history as LGBTQIA+ individuals. 
  5. Type made by queer people explicitly for queer education/communities, sometimes including educating people on the gendered nature of language (ex: La typothèque Bye Bye Binary), our history in LGBTQIA+ activism (ex: GenderFail), etc.
  6. Type that is really, at the end of the day, gay, queer, trans, LGBTQIA+, etc. (obviously).