Patricia Belen is a graphic designer
interested in
coding. print design. archives. design history. design research. teaching. writing. digital humanities.

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She's a partner at Kind Company and co-founder of Display, Graphic Design Collection. Patricia creates identities, printed materials, publications, websites, content management systems and digital solutions for clients within the art, culture and commerce industries. Her research and writing explore design history, technology, digital humanities and contemporary practice. She currently teaches graphic design at Fordham University in New York City.

Selected Work

An interactive website that explores history and visual literacy using a group of problematic digitized objects from the NYPL as the basis to form new perspectives and alternative narratives around questions of absence, visibility, representation, human value, and other provocations.

An online collection of rebus ephemera, research into their history and cultural uses, and an interactive playground for translations.

A digital, visual exploration of the manifesto as a publicity tool - how these documents disseminated ideas on a global scale and an experimental reinterpretation of a selected text.

An exploration of concrete poetry, typography, language, and form that occurs in a digital, interactive interface.

Publication design for a comprehensive graphic design history survey authored by Steven Heller and Greg D'Onofrio, Abrams Books (336 pages, 785 illustrations); design and development for promotional website.

Website design and development for a community of Abraham Lincoln collectors and scholars.

Website design and development for intersectional leader and activist Crystal Eastman (1881-1928) – one of the most conspicuous political women in United States.

Exhibition graphics and brochure design for Propaganda: The Art of Political Indoctrination at Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò, NYU.

Website design and development for a resource for pioneering graphic designer, artist and archivist, Elaine Lustig Cohen (1927–2016).

Catalog publication design for a collection of ephemera, books, sketchbooks and scrapbooks belonging to mid-century painter Nell Blaine.

Catalog publication design and writing for a collection of important calendars designed by modernist graphic designer Wim Crouwel.

Catalog publication design and writing for a collection of Soviet newspapers featuring avant-garde and Constructivist graphics.

Website design and development for private dealers of Russian & Soviet art, design and photo related books, journals, magazines, posters, publications and ephemera.

Website design, development and brand identity for a video production company specializing in content creation.

Website design and development for a Tribeca art gallery featuring an extensive archive of exhibitions since 1994.

Website design, development and publication design for a book dealer specializing in original manuscript material and unique book creations.

Website design and development for a platform for research, writing and discoveries in graphic design history (self-initiated project; in progress).

Logos and brand identity for various clients.

Italian Types: Graphic Designers from Italy in America
Curator, Italian Cultural Institute, NY, 2019.

Graphic Designers in Milan 1946–67
Curator, Torino Graphic Days, Torino, Italy, 2017.

Ladislav Sutnar: Pioneer of Information Design
Curator, Gallery 360, Northeastern University, MA, 2016.
Curator, Ildiko Butler Gallery, Fordham University, NY, 2015.

Thirty Years of The Herb Lubalin Study Center of Design and Typography
Invited Participant, Cooper Gallery, Cooper Union, NY, 2015.

“Official Symbol of the American Revolution Bicentennial, Graphics Standards Manual” and “U.S. Department of Labor, Graphic Communications Standards Manual”
Manuals 1: Design and Identity Guidelines, Thames & Hudson, 2025 and Unit Editions, 2014.

“Graphic Design History for Web Designers”
Teaching Graphic Design History, Allworth Press, 2019.

“Milestones of Italian Graphic Designers in New York City”
Italian Types: Graphic Designers from Italy in America, Corraini Edizioni, 2019.

Contributing Author
Can graphic design save your life?, GraphicDesign&, 2017.

“Lester Beall, A Significant American Corporate Identity Program”
Codex, The Journal of Typography, Issue 3, 2013.

“Elaine Lustig Cohen, The Art of Modern Graphics”
The Shelf Journal, Issue 2, 2013.

“Pirelli Publicity: Style and Aesthetics 1955–1967”
Codex, The Journal of Typography, Issue 2, 2012.