Claire Hungerford is a designer in Los Angeles. She works with artists, writers and institutions alongside initiating and self-publishing her own projects. She received her MFA at Yale in 2024 and her BA from the University of Chicago. She is currently a teaching fellow at the Yale Prison Education Initiative (YPEI). Get in touch by sending an email. A brief selection of recent work is shown below; please reach out for a CV or portfolio.
Hourglass ~ Publication design in collaboration with Kaming Lee for the Yale Photography MFA Thesis Book, with guidance from Lesley Martin. Half of the book is upside-down relative to its other half. Set in Times 10 with a custom asterisk. Edition of 500. Printed by GHP in New Haven, CT.
Coco’s ~ Graphic identity for Courtney Storer, chef and culinary producer for The Bear.
Mylar Balloons on Horse Island ~ A photo essay with text published in The Yale Review in the Spring ‘23 issue, following a summer residency on Horse Island as a Peabody Museum research fellow. Published in print and online here.
KOZIOL PIEROGI FARM ~ A recurring food cart in collaboration with Baxter Koziol. For KPF’s second installment, we cooked at the Cactus Store’s New York summer annex: cheddar, potato and kielbasa pierogis were paired with live music by Sam Wilkes & friends. We also made some one-of-a-kind, commemorative shirts.
Bootleg Strategies (Design Workshop) for high school students through Yale Pathways, Summer 2023. The workshop explored themes of bootlegging, appropriation and mash-up techniques. The workshop culminated in a t-shirt-making extravaganza in which students collaged together their own logos, poems and visual forms using existing logos from several sources.
Rory’s Place ~ Graphic identity, packaging design and signage for Rory’s Place & Rory’s Other Place in Ojai, CA, as well as packaging for a Rory’s Place x Rose Delights collaboration.
Exene Karros: God strike me down or at least pay attention, exhibition catalogue for Harkawik, 2023. [Publication design]
A small grey book of small grey paintings, published to coincide with the exhibition of the same name at Harkawik New York. Blind debossed softcover with grey edges.
David Hollowell: Light Show, exhibition catalogue for Harkawik, 2022. [Publication design]
Hollowell’s trompe-loeil pointellist paintings called to mind the scale and feel of children’s books, so we wanted the catalogue to be large, whimsical and slim in profile, with oversized type and full-bleed spreads throughout the book.
1989/2023 At-A-Glance. [Self-published book]
Looking at space is like looking back at time: the farther into space a telescope can see, the farther back in time it’s looking. This year, the Webb telescope presented us with an image from 13.6 billion years into the past. We forget that yearly calendars also look back in time: they repeat themselves. (The 2023 calendar is identical to the 1989 calendar). This calendar presents several pasts at once, as a kind of future. Images of 1989 calendars I gathered from eBay are superimposed on to the James Webb images, and tucked into the grid of the 2023 future.
Earth Café, Range Free Press, 2021. [Book]
An interactive, culinary rolodex, made in collaboration with 43 chefs and writers from around the world. Yields 43,000+ combinations. Photography by Claire Hungerford and sourced from the Public Domain. Distributed by Printed Matter and Motto Books in Berlin. Edition of 500. [Sold out]
Toastmaster 1B24, collaboration with David Bordett, 2023. SMOKE (group show), A Reading Room, Melbourne, Australia.
Give & Take. Exhibition identity for Yale School of Architecture in collaboration with Betty Wang.
