Stripe is a Bay Area based graphic design studio founded by Jon Sueda in 2004. Along with creating printed material, websites, and exhibitions for cultural institutions, Stripe produces art and design publications, small edition prints, and self-initiated curatorial projects.
Jon Sueda
Originally from Hawaii, Sueda has practiced design everywhere from Honolulu to Holland. After earning his MFA in Graphic Design from CalArts in 2002, he was invited to North Carolina State University to serve as a designer in residence, followed by an internship in the Netherlands with Studio Dumbar. In 2004, Sueda founded the design studio Stripe, which specializes in print and exhibition design for art and culture. He is also the co-editor of Task Newsletter, and the co-organizer of AtRandom events. In 2007, Sueda relocated to the San Francisco area where he served as Director of Design at the CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts for seven years, and is currently the Chair of the MFA Design program at California College of the Arts. Sueda curated the exhibitions The Way Beyond Art: Wide White Space for the CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts; Work from California for the 25th International Graphic Design Biennial in Brno, Czech Republic, and All Possible Futures for SOMArts Cultural Center in San Francisco. Most recently he was selected as a member of the Alliance Graphique Internationale.
Lectures, Workshops, and Guest Critic
Art Center College of Design; ArtEZ Graphic Design Arnhem; University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy; École des Beaux-Arts de Rennes, France; California Institute of the Arts (CalArts); Cranbrook Academy of Art; University of Hawaii, Manoa; North Carolina State University, Raleigh; Otis College of Art and Design; RISD; Rutgers University; the Walker Art Center, and Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI ARC).
Publications
Idea (Japan); Graphic (Korea); Abitare; Creative Review; Cura; and New York Times Magazine, as well as the books Thought Experiments in Graphic Design Education; Graphic Design, Exhibiting, Curating; Typography & Context: System, Form, Message; and Graphic Design Worlds / Word.
Exhibitions
Doubles Pages (Ecole des Beaux-arts, Rennes); East Coast, West Coast (Galerie-Anatome, Paris); Forms of Inquiry: The Architecture of Critical Graphic Design (Architecture Association); Graphic Design in the White Cube (Moravian Gallery, Brno); Jérôme Saint-Loubert Bié expose 13 affiches (Galerie de Multiples, Paris); and The Live Archive of The Generational: Younger than Jesus (New Museum).
Awards
Art Directors Club, AIGA 50 Books/50 Covers Award 2006 and 2008, the Commons Curatorial Residency in 2013, and most recently he was selected as for the jury of the 27th International Graphic Design Biennial in Brno.
Links
- Walker Art Center Insights 2016: Jon Sueda (Stripe S.F.), San Francisco
- High Up: Graphic Design Around Town
- All Possible Futures Exhibition Site
- CORE 77 / All Possible Futures: An Interview with Jon Sueda
- Observer: In a Critical Condition by Rick Poynor
- All Possible Futures: Can ‘speculative design’ unlock a hitherto unrealised potential for graphic design to go beyond business as usual? by Rick Poynor
- All Possible Futures Reviewed by Eva Folks
- Work From California Exhibition Site
- They Way Beyond Art: Wide White Space Exhibition Site
- The Work of Task by Andrew Blauvelt
- A Tale of Two Graphic Designers: Martin Venezky and Jon Sueda by Simon Hodgson
- Practice, Practice, Practice, Interview by Margaret Andersen
- Educating Educators, Interview by Michael Worthington
- Lecture at Cranbrook Academy of Art
- Task Newsletter
- AtRandom Events
- CCA MFA Design Program Website
jon(at)stripesf.com
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Past and Present Stripe Designers / Collaborators
Gail Swanlund (Founding Partner)
Monika Gruzite
Chris Hamamoto
Katie Hanburger
Jennifer Hennesy
Deb Lao
Jeremy Landman
Megan Lynch
Julie Mattei
Randy Nakamura
Kaz Nakanishi
Caroline Oh
Nikelle Orellana
Jennifer Rider
Mathieu Stemmelen
David Valentine
