Ry Faraola
Ry Faraola is a graphic designer and typographer based in London whose practice interrogates the relationship between design, power, and class consciousness. Currently completing an MA in Visual Communication at the Royal College of Art, with additional training in type design from Letterform Archive's Type West program, Faraola combines formal design expertise with critical theory and satirical intervention. Working across typography, printmaking, publishing, and participatory objects, Faraola uses humor and irony as critical tools to expose the contradictions embedded in contemporary design culture.
Recent projects include Factory Toy, a handmade modular object crafted from luxury materials that parodies elite design by imagining a plaything that trains wealthy children for power. Through such work, Faraola creates deliberate friction between high-end craft and critical content, questioning how design reinforces systems of inequality. With degrees in Fine Arts and History of Art & Visual Culture from UC Santa Cruz, plus additional study in Philosophy of Design at Stanford, Faraola brings both theoretical depth and practical experience to projects that span commercial design, community organizing, museum commissions, and independent publishing..
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