Name: Yesterday + Today + Tomorrow: Book Design from The CalArts Community
Start: 2025-12-06T13:00:00-05:00
End: 2025-12-06T21:00:00-05:00
Location: The Reef

School of art & CalArts at the Reef presents

Yesterday + Today + Tomorrow: Book Design from The CalArts Community

December

06

,

2025

1-9 pm PST

Yesterday + Today + Tomorrow is a *mostly* hands-on exhibition of book design by CalArts alumni, faculty and students alongside the work that influenced them. Each designer was invited to submit two books designed by them and two books that inspired their work (not designed by them).

Nested between the books in the exhibition, CalArts MFA GD student work explores design for reading spaces from the page to the screen and beyond. This one-day exhibition and event features a keynote presentation by Lorraine Wild and Ching Xiaoqing Wang of Green Dragon Office, and book presentations by alumni Becca Lofchie (GD MFA 20) and Silas Munro (GD MFA 08) .

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About the Event

Yesterday + Today + Tomorrow traces the interconnectedness of publication design across generations at CalArts, from inside the Institute to professional practice to the world of publishing. Graphic design does not operate in a vacuum. It thrives on confluence, borrowing, remixing, and reimagining. Influences and references can be clear or unacknowledged, yet every piece of design belongs to a longer chain of events, where form and ideas are knotted together.

This one-day event centers around an exhibition of book design by CalArts faculty and alumni, presented alongside selected publications that influenced each designers’ work. In addition, student experiments in reading and publishing examine and challenge conventions of function, materiality and user experience. Throughout the day, renowned CalArts faculty and alumni will present the ideas and process behind some of their best known work, featuring a keynote book presentation by Lorraine Wild and Ching Xiaoqing Wang of Green Dragon Office.

Together, this collection of objects and narratives highlights connections and evolutions across the program’s history, illustrating how the CalArts Graphic Design program has supported designers in testing the boundaries of book design. This broad range of work forms a set of visual citations that reveal both influence and departure, encompassing what book design was, is, and might yet become.

Event Schedule

Final schedule is subject to change.

1 pm

Exhibition and Makers Marketplace open. The Makers Marketplace will feature designed objects, print work, and other artisanal good from the CalArts community.

3 pm

Keynote book presentation by Lorraine Wild and Ching Xiaoqing Wang of Green Dragon Office.

5 pm

Book presentation by alum Becca Lofchie (GD MFA 20) of Becca Lofchie Studio.

6 pm

Book presentation by Silas Munro (GD MFA 08) of Polymode.

9 pm

Exhibition and Marketplace close.

Additional Information

Speakers are:

Xioaoqing Ching Wang, Green Dragon Office
Becca Lofchie (GD MFA 20)
Silas Munro (GD MFA 08)

Alumni included in the exhibition:
Jon Sueda (GD MFA 02)
Michael Worthington (GD MFA 95)
Jessica Fleishmann (GD MFA 01)
Louise Sandhaus (GD BFA 93 & MFA 94)
Juliette Bellocq (GD MFA 00)
Tanya Rubbak (GD MFA 07)
Ian Lynam (GD MFA 04)
Kimberly Varella (Art MFA 99)
Ella Gold (GD MFA 19)
Ching Wang (GD MFA 06)
Christina Huang (GD MFA 16)
Zak Kyes (GD BFA 06)
Barbara Glauber (GD MFA 90)
Scott Massey (GD MFA 12)
David Karawan (GD MFA 12)
Bijan Berahimi (GD MFA 13)
Kat Catmur (GD MFA 15)
Jiating Freeze Shi (GD MFA 25)
Kristen Coogan (GD MFA 07)
Ella Rosenblatt (GD MFA 24)
Jiho Ahn (GD MFA 24)
Dariia Zamrii (GD MFA 25)
Ingrid Yu Ju Tai (GD MFA)
Naveen Hattis (GD MFA 25)
Stephanie Lane Gage (GD MFA 23)
Val Costa (GD MFA 25)

T.Y. Yi Tang (GD MFA 25)

About CalArts Graphic Design

The Graphic Design MFA program at CalArts has educated generations of designers who have encouraged experimentation and innovation in the field of graphic design, testing the boundaries of what professional practice might be. The program develops makers and thinkers who go on to shape design culture and emphasizes formal and conceptual skills, and enables each designer to integrate a command of visual language with imagination, research, theory and technology: mfa.design.calarts.edu

About CalArts at the Reef

Located on the top floor of the Reef building at Broadway and Washington, our 20,000 square foot space hosts a range of exhibitions, productions, workshops, and experimental programming. At the center of the program is the CalArts Reef Residency, which provides time, space, and support for recently graduated CalArts alumni to develop and share work beyond the academic environment.

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Get ready for a playful evening of surprises, laughter and spontaneous creativity! Directed by Frank Caeti, It Will Be What It Wants to Be is a dynamic, one-act show featuring a diverse cast of 15 players who blend improv and devised theatre to create a unique experience because every night, it'll be what it wants to be. It Will Be What it Wants to Be is a devised and improvisedd show that will run approximately 70 minutes without an intermission.

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If you have any questions, please contact us at specialevents@calarts.edu.