Sharing Dreams/Compartiendo Sueños 2007:
Design in Culture/Diseño en Cultura

Anna Boyiazis

“The difference between Los Angeles and yogurt is that yogurt has more active living culture.” –unknown

Bio

Anna Boyiazis is an artist, designer and educator living and working in Los Angeles. Formerly Head Designer at The Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA), Anna has spent the past sixteen years designing a variety of publications, predominantly books, in close collaboration with international art, architecture, cultural and educational organizations. Projects include the design of Morphosis, architecture monograph by Thom Mayne (Phaidon Press), and Paradise Cage: Kiki Smith and Coop Himmelblau (MOCA). Anna has performed extensive design work as a consultant for Design Within Reach, the Grunwald Center for the Graphic Arts, The Hammer Museum and Yale University. She has taught graphic design and typography courses at both Art Center College of Design and the UCLA School of the Arts and Architecture, and has served a teaching fellowship at the Yale University School of Art.

Anna’s unyielding commitment to participate in international humanitarian and environmental relief projects inspired recent travel to remote villages in sub-Saharan Africa to document families whose lives have been touched by AIDS. Additionally, she closely collaborated with the Jane Goodall Institute to document its ambitious conservation and educational programming.

Anna is a 2007 Rome Prize nominee, 2006 Rome Prize finalist, and 2005 American Academy in Rome Visiting Artist. Her design work has been recognized by The American Center for Design, the American Institute of Graphic Arts, and Communication Arts, among others. Anna received a BA from the UCLA School of the Arts and Architecture, and a MFA from Yale University.