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Cobey Lusinger is a communication designer born and raised in the Texas Hill Country and currently based in Brooklyn. He likes to think about how written languages look and what their visual form can say beyond their semantic function.
        Cobey gets excited for publication and editorial design, motion graphics, film, and typeface design. He wishes to learn more about CG animation, copyright and IP law, American Sign Language, and the art of paper-making.




Some Projects
        And In the Vast City, an animated short based on the work of Russian avante-guarde illustrators.
         The Contemporary Androgyne : A Reader, an editorial design and bookbinding which conflicts with the parameters of prescribed layouts.
        Francis Picabia : Our Heads Are Round So Our Thoughts Can Change Direction, an exhibition identity concept based on MoMA’s original of the renowned copy-cat artist.
        Origin of Earth, a children’s book illustration and design for an origin tale of the world as told first by the Native American Tuskegee.
        Echo en abyme ( Dhalgren by Samuel R. Delany ), a type design and bookbinding concept for an infinitely readable book.

Project List

Animation Cache




Involvement
        ModMag Conference, Magculture, 2019, moderated by Jeremie Leslie : Student introductory speaker for one-day conference on global contemporary magazine design and culture.
        Teaching Graphic Design, 2nd Edition, ed. Steven Heller, Allworth Press, 2017 : Work showcased for under-graduate branding design work as part of Heller’s catalog of contemporary graphic design curricula ( per Kevin Brainard, COLLINS ).
        Walsworth Yearbooks’ Gallery of Excellence Award, 2013, 2014 : Awarded The Mustang annual for its outstanding merit in editorial design, cover design, and photography for a high school yearbook.




Contact
Mark



Oscar Wilde’s The Doer of Good


The Lord walks into the rounded city, here implied to be Wilde’s contemporary London (rather than historic Jerusalem). Therein Jesus finds the grime and grit of the city as industry slowly takes over the streets.
            To evoke the clash of ideals that Wilde captures in his short prose, the book is designed as an illuminated manuscript. But instead of being decorated by intricate and devine ornament, the city with her buildings, her grime, and her smoke creep around golden sections︎ of text, slowly taking over the scene.




A digital version of Doer of Good is available here︎.


children’s book, illustration
four-color printing
New York City
2018





other projects
Mark