Adriana Ridings
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About
Posters
Motion
Brand Identity
Typographic Explorations 
Exhibition + Curatorial Projects


Adriana Ridings is a designer, educator, and curator based in Los Angeles. Currently pursuing her MFA in Graphic Design at CalArts, she is particularly interested in how space for critical thinking, physicality, and historical awareness remains important to cultivating relevant and responsible design in an era defined by accelerated digital production.

Over the past five years, she has worked in the arts and culture space, collaborating with major institutions including The Lucas Museum of Narrative Art, LACMA, The Met, and Aperture Magazine.

Contact:
adriana.ridings93@gmail.com
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02.Motion 






03.Brand Identity 


Terra Vino (Wine Brand + Packaging) 




04.Typographic Explorations


This year became an immersion: a deliberate, sometimes disorienting, and ultimately grounding descent into typographic history. While I still have much to learn, this exploration offered the deep dive I needed into the evolution of letterforms, into the ways typography both shapes and is shaped, how it holds form while communicating, and how each typeface carries its own strengths and limitations born from its particular moment, place, and use.

Many thanks to Micah Hahn for his generosity, guidance, 
and an enduring passion for typography.



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Image: Entering Wall Text for BlueEcho at AltaSea 2025. Exhibition walls made of compostable cardboard. 
BlueEcho 

The World Resources Institute is partnering with artists at the California Institute of the Arts to explore how art can spark conversation and inspire action around the ocean as a vital solution to the world’s climate challenges. Drawing from the WRI’s Blue Papers—a vision for a cleaner, more resilient future with the ocean at its heart—the artists collaborated, working across disciplines, from sound and sculpture to performance and graphic design. What emerges is a chorus of perspectives, unified by a deep sense of hope and climate optimism. Blue Echo invites us to consider how behavioral and perspective shifts accumulate into ripples that create environmental impact across the globe. 


Co-Curator and Exhibition Designer with Valeria Costa

Exhibition displayed at Alta Sea at the Port of Los Angeles in 2025 with plans to travel internationally in 2026.




Image: “Sounds of our Climate Future,” a piece featured in BlueEcho 2025 by Alex Taylor