Jason
Alejandro


Jason Alejandro is a Puerto Rican graphic designer and educator based between New York City and Philadelphia. He is currently Associate Professor of Graphic Design at the College of New Jersey. Jason’s work examines, addresses, and questions aspects of cultural identity, design history, professional practice, and critical pedagogy through research, making, and writing. More info︎︎︎

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A Technomoral Politics book cover

I was commissioned by University of Minnesota Press to design the book cover for Aradhana Sharma’s A Technomoral Politics: Good Governance, Transparency, and Corruption in India.

From the publisher:
“Good governance is meant to empower citizens, increase democratic participation, and make states transparent and accountable, yet this liberal democratic imperative can also promote populist authoritarian rule. Bringing together discourses on ethical goodness with the technicalities of governance as expressed in laws and policies, Aradhana Sharma develops the concept of “technomoral politics” to navigate this fraught topic. With a focus on the work of activists, citizens, and state officials, she offers an ethnographic account of the contradictions and dangers of good-governance politics in twenty-first-century India.”
Nov 2024


Blk + Brown Book Designers interview

Check out my interview at the Blk & Brwn Book Designers blog. Blk + Brwn Book Designers is “a New York-based community formed to benefit underrepresented graphic designers in Black and Brown communities with design skills, knowledge, and access to opportunities to succeed in the book publishing industry.“

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Mar 2024


Young Ones juror

I was nomimated to serve as a juror for the 2024 Young Ones Student Awards, a global competition for students and recent graduates across creative disciplines. Young Ones is home to four unique competitions—Young Ones ADC, One Show, Portfolio, and TDC. I participated as a juror in the Portfolio competition.

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Jan 2024



Competition identity by KUDOS
Fonética y Fonología book cover

I was commissioned by Georgetown University Press to design the book cover for a two-volume reference set of Spanish phonetics and phonology, Fonética y Fonología Descriptivas de la Lengua Española, edited by Juana Gil and Joaquim Llisterri. 

From the publisher:
“Though there has been considerable research on Spanish phonetics and phonology, until now, there has been no in-depth and complete descriptive reference work. Fonética y fonología descriptivas de la lengua española, volumes 1 and 2, is a comprehensive reference, written in Spanish, describing the phonetics and phonology of Spanish.”
Feb 2024


Until I Find You book cover

I was commissioned by Harvard University Press to design a cover for Rachel Nolan’s Until I Find You: Disappeared Children and Coercive Adoptions in Guatemala.

From the publisher:
“The poignant saga of Guatemala’s adoption industry: an international marketplace for children, built on a foundation of inequality, war, and Indigenous dispossession.”
Jan 2024