Kevin Yuen-Kit Lo, MA

Kevin Yuen Kit Lo is Assistant Professor of Communication Design and Visual Culture in the Department of Design and Computation Arts. He works at the intersections of graphic design, cultural production, and social change with a research focus on publication practices and social movements. His research is invested in exploring the tensions between material and relational studies of design as a means of fostering greater social and political autonomy.

Kevin founded the graphic design studio LOKI in 2014, working alongside community organizations, non-profits, cultural and educational institutions, unions, artists, researchers and activist groups, as part of broader movements for social change. The studio has worked on campaigns to stop racial profiling, designed protest graphics for anti-racist and anti-colonial social justice movements, created online platforms for critical journalism and supported the cultural production of marginalized writers and artists through the design of publications, exhibitions, and collaborative works.

Kevin holds an MA in Typographic Design from the London College of Printing (UAL). Prior to founding LOKI, he worked in interactive design, advertising and fashion. He is a member of the Memefest network and the Justseeds artist co-operative. Kevin is the author of Design Against Design: Cause and consequence of a dissident graphic practice (2024) with Set Margins’ Press.

Education

• MA, Typographic Design, London College of Printing, University of the Arts London
• GCD, Digital Technologies in Design Art Practice, Concordia University
• BFA, Design Art, Concordia University

DART 280 — Investigations in Typographic Design
DART 398 — Activist Practices in Graphic Design
DART 483 — Design Lab
DART 498 — Experimental Type and Image

Books

Design Against Design: Cause and consequence of a dissident graphic practice
Set Margins' 2024