Luiza Dale (b.1988, Rio de Janeiro) is a graphic designer based in Brooklyn, New York.
Her work explores how live performance can happen in print and digital reproductions. Luiza is 1/3 of the studio The Aliens and runs Quickbooks, a small press that publishes fast and for free. She is currently Lecturer at Rutgers Mason Gross School of the Arts and the Yale School of Art.
Luiza has also lectured and served as critic at a number of universities including Boston University, Columbia GSAPP, Harvard GSD, New York University, Parsons School of Design, and Wesleyan. In spring 2022, Luiza and Tuan Quoc Pham co-taught a class at Parsons titled Bad Design which investigated our relationship to social norms that inform how we value design work. In addition to being bad, Luiza is interested in performance studies as a lens to better understand how design is perceived and experienced by others. She taught It’s telling how telling a telling can be at the Yale Norfolk School of Art in summer 2023.
Luiza has worked at Meta Open Arts, collaborated with Other Means, was Art Director at Outdoor Voices, Design Director at Playlab Inc., and Designer and Editor of the periodical CLOG. In 2021, Luiza received an MFA from the Yale School of Art where she was awarded the Charles Sawyer Prize.
See résume or send an email. Website last updated on July 4, 2023.