OTIS COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN
Lorna Alkana mixes language and line drawings into interactive installations, speculative events, and found poetry. Post grad (USC, Creative Writing), Alkana taught middle school English, founded and co-hosted a weekly open-mic, and visually arted around Los Angeles and on her process blog (lornaphone.com). In the MFA Graphic Design program, she reevaluated and expanded her understanding of the histories and futures of graphic communication, information organization, and the means of production. Alkana began creating tools to build a time traveling design practice (@dplpdcrcrs) and to orchestrate speculative public protests, parties, and conferences where people can come together to discuss and plan around underlying issues of equality and freedom. For the 2019 AICAD Conference, Alkana co-presented a music video essay, “SyllabUS,” to examine the college syllabus as a contract and the extent to which students fit in to the language of accreditation. She currently freelances and writes autobiographies in third person.
WHERE WERE YOU BORN AND WHERE DID YOU GROW UP?
Long Beach CA / Between Seal Beach and Santa Ana CA
MORNING PERSON OR NIGHT OWL?
Night owl
FAVORITE SOCIAL PLATFORM?
#Instagram
FAVORITE TV BINGE WATCH?
Bojack Horseman
FAVORITE PODCAST?
BBC Sounds, The Missing Cryptoqueen
FAVORITE BOOK?
The Influencing Machine by Brooke Gladstone
FAVORITE MOVIE?
Clue
FAVORITE FINE ARTIST?
Cindy Sherman
FAVORITE CAUSE/CHARITY?
Planned Parenthood
FAVORITE FREE TIME ACTIVITY?
Notebook time
FAVORITE DESIGNER WORKING TODAY?
Hanna Bergman (The Reading School)
AREA OF SPECIALTY?
Publica(c)tion
IF YOU WERE NOT A DESIGNER, WHAT WOULD YOU DO?
Scientist
THE BEST THING ABOUT DESIGN SCHOOL?
Questions and conversations, library time
A MANTRA OR SAYING YOU LIVE BY?
Constraints free the artistic mind
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