Argentine American designer, photographer, and creative technologist. BFA SCAD · MFA Design & Technology, Parsons '27. New York.
I'm Pilar Liotta — Argentine American designer, photographer, and creative technologist. My practice spans branding, editorial, interaction design, and creative code, always led by color, curiosity, and the space where visual systems meet human behavior.
MFA Design & Technology, Parsons 2027. BFA Graphic Design + Photography, SCAD. Impact Entrepreneurship Fellow with Re:Frame, a media literacy platform. Based in New York.
Grounded in the dual nature of Chastain Horse Park as both a therapeutic and competitive space, this identity system organizes multiple programs under one cohesive brand. A modular icon and ribbon system differentiates programs while maintaining clarity, consistency, and accessibility across print and environmental applications.
As Lead Brand Designer for the SCAD SERVE collaboration, I built the full identity — logo, sub-branding, color-coded wayfinding, icons, and interpretive signage — grounded in on-site research. Presented at SCAD FASH 2024.

Therapeutic Horsemanship sign · SCAD FASH 2024
Polo shirt
Signage
Merchandise
Mug
Therapy variant
Identity
SCAD FASH 2024 presentation
Vehicle wrap
Stamp
Social mediaThe challenge was designing one brand that could hold therapeutic riding programs and competitive equestrian events without feeling split. The ribbon and icon system solved this — each program gets its own color while sharing the same visual language.
Working directly with the client through SCAD SERVE gave the project real stakes. Presented at SCAD FASH 2024.
An InDesign book analyzing &Walsh's bold visual language. I designed a Cinema 4D bag, then fabricated a laser-cut version with Cricut. Set in Acumin Pro, the project won SCAD MOSAIC, IDA Silver, GDUSA, and was showcased by SCAD AIGA.
Edited spread
Book cover
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PagesProcess images and selected spreads from the &Walsh archive book, with layout experiments and material exploration. The physical bag fabrication pushed the project beyond editorial into object design.
Team rebrand for Rock in Rio's 40th anniversary. Guided by América Invertida, our "Revolt and Reimagine" concept reframes rebellion as inclusive cultural force. I contributed color, typography, textures, and mockups — bold gradients, custom iconography, and Latin American roots.
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Shirt
Merchandise
Merchandise 2
Stickers
Lanyard
VIP pass
Applied
InstagramThis campaign explored bold typographic treatments and color. The América Invertida concept — the upside-down map of South America — anchored a visual system that embraces Latin American identity as power, not footnote.
A Type 2 artists' book made entirely of plastic with label-printed text, inspired by Blade Runner's themes of autonomy and oppression. Shifting black/white typography blurs human/Replicant boundaries. Exhibited in the SCAD Artists' Book Competition 2024.
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CoverBuilt entirely from plastic with label-printer text, the book materializes the artificiality of a world that strips androids of rights. The physical fakeness of the object is the argument — you can't separate the medium from the message.
Real-time generative visuals from Parsons DT. Gesture-to-meaning experiments, motion and interaction work — each piece live-rendered, no post-processing. Just signal flow and feedback loops.
TouchDesigner pushed me into real-time systems thinking. Gesture-to-meaning explored how body movement drives visual narrative. Each piece is live-rendered — no post-processing, just signal flow and feedback loops responding to input in the moment.
A webcam tracks your gaze as you look at an image. The piece watches you back — a thermal receipt printer outputs exactly what you looked at and for how long. The installation turns a seemingly private act into data, revealing how easily attention becomes a commodity.
Final project, MFA Design & Technology, Parsons. Accepted to MIT Reality Hack 2026.
View the project →The project explores surveillance, attention as data, and material traces of viewing. Looking is never neutral — this piece makes that legible by printing a receipt of your gaze, complete with fixation points and time-on-object data.
Creative assets developed for Instagram's Brand Imagery campaign and Edits feature content. Visuals contributed to public-facing campaign materials across Instagram's @creators channel, blending personal visual storytelling with Meta's global brand direction.
Edits — Duration Controls on Transitions
Contributing to a global brand's public-facing campaign means your visual language gets filtered through someone else's guidelines — and still has to feel like you. These assets ran across Instagram's @creators channel and Edits product feature content.
All trademarks and brand assets belong to their respective owners. Work shown is publicly released campaign imagery.

Photography collaboration with VSCO — Beta Spaces launch, Valentine's Day newsletter feature, and editorial edits shaped by music and personal storytelling.
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06Campaign stills and editorial imagery from the VSCO collaboration, selected edits used across promotional channels including the Beta Spaces launch.
Commission logo and brand identity for Atlanta-based photographer Sophie Harris. Her work is bold and colorful, and I let that energy lead. The chromatic aberration, the color bleed, the magenta and yellow glow are all pulled from that world of vivid, saturated imagery. The distortion became a way to carry her visual language directly into the brand.
The logo exists in three strengths, each one the same mark pushed further into decay. Depending on the context, Sophie can dial it up or pull it back. The distortion also became the pattern, repeated across merch, cards, and digital assets.
The glitch and glow aren't effects applied after the fact — they're a direct response to Sophie's work. She shoots with a bold, vivid eye, and I wanted the brand to carry that same energy. The chromatic aberration, the color bleed, the magenta and yellow glow all come from that place. The distortion isn't decoration — it's the aesthetic, built from her visual language outward.

A refined rebrand of Taragüi honoring Argentine maté culture. Deeper red/blue palette, Attic Antique with DIN Condensed, earthy tones, and textured packaging balance heritage with modern sophistication. "Mismo Gusto, Otro Estilo."
Holding mate
Mate cocido
New packaging
Campaign
Termo
ToteTaragüi is Argentina's most iconic maté brand — the challenge was updating it without erasing it. The new system respects heritage while bringing a more considered, sophisticated visual voice.

As PR Assistant at Gallery Anderson Smith, I designed exhibition posters, motion graphics, and promotional materials for the gallery's shows and events in Atlanta.
Film festival
Dandy w/ grain
Focus exhibition
Event design
Promo
Spring FlingExhibition identity and collateral created for Gallery Anderson Smith — posters, applied flyers, and motion pieces that promote shows without competing with them.

A week of listening distilled into three "mood modes" swappable with SPACE — styled like a minimal Spotify visualizer. Clean layout, centered waves, and color palettes focus on feeling over stats.
Built around actual listening data, each mood mode uses a different color palette and wave motion. The minimal interface keeps focus on feeling rather than numbers.

Full-screen typographic clock that repeats the current time in Pixelify Sans until it becomes texture from afar. Hover changes color; press T to toggle 12/24h, Q/W to adjust size, C to cycle palettes.
At a distance the repeated time text reads as texture. Up close it's legible. This tension between pattern and information — a clock that hides itself in plain sight.

An autobiographical p5.js game about movement and identity. Guide a color-changing ball through scenes that echo my journey from Argentina to the US — collecting pieces of self. Arrow keys and SPACE.
Minimal mechanics, maximum personal stakes. Color, transitions, and simple interactions tell a migration story. Abstract, playful, and personal — it felt true to use games as autobiography.

A Type 2 book on Baskerville's pursuit of precision. Neutral palette, crisp forms, and ten defining tones — fluid, detailed, sophisticated, timeless — trace the journey from sketch to refined typography.
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Baskerville's History
SpreadJohn Baskerville spent years obsessing over ink, paper, and the geometry of letterforms — the typeface named after him became the standard for perfection. This book follows that obsession, using Baskerville itself to tell the story of how a craftsman's fixation became typographic history.

Interactive visual study in motion and perception. A draggable ball leaves a sparkle trail that creates an optical illusion of depth — simple mechanics that produce surprisingly complex perceptual effects.
This piece plays with how the eye is drawn to motion. Simple mechanics that produce surprisingly complex perceptual effects — the gap between what we see and what is there.

Personal photography and mixed-media work. Film photography, VSCO edits, and explorations that sit outside formal project briefs.




























































Film photography, personal edits, and explorations that sit outside formal briefs. These images are where I find what I'm actually interested in.

Posters, packaging, editorial, and mockups from SCAD coursework — identities, storytelling strategy, UX/UI explorations, and packaging studies from concept to execution.
Parlez ad
Parlez phone mockup
Film poster — This is not a Commercial
Editorial project
Print film
Messi
Mbappé
Ronaldo
Messi — printed
Idols series
IRL Station
IRL Station 2
Name tag
App design
CeraVe box
CeraVe mockup
Artboard 42
Adidas mockups
Adidas mockup 3
Seminar mockup
StickersQuick explorations and applied mockups from coursework and studio experiments. For full case studies, visit the individual project pages.
An editorial magazine concept for Diesel's Autumn/Winter 2023 campaign — "Unzip the Look." Bold typography, high-contrast fashion imagery, and a raw editorial voice that mirrors the brand's irreverent energy. Designed for print and social formats.
Art direction, layout, and social media extensions from concept through final execution.
Front & back
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B&W spread
Editorial
Colophon
Collection
Campaign
Cover spread
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Magazine mockup
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Instagram
Instagram 2Diesel's brand voice is loud, raw, and unapologetically itself. The design challenge was matching that energy in editorial form — letting the typography and layout carry attitude without competing with the imagery.
The "Unzip the Look" concept drove every page — zippers as visual motifs, unzipped reveals, structured chaos.
Why does my brain go to a meme when I don't have the words? Meme Transmission is an interactive investigation into memes not as jokes, but as a real mechanism for collective feeling and emotional coping. It documents the inevitable decay of meaning that happens as an image is screenshotted, reposted, and deep-fried across the web.
MFA Design & Technology, Parsons.
Launch Prototype →When starting this I didn't want to just describe memes. I wanted to understand what's actually happening when one moves from person to person and comes out different on the other end. These three gave me the framework.
Rushkoff wrote about memes as viral contagion. His argument is that ideas spread like viruses, latching onto a host and replicating through networks whether the carrier understands them or not. That's why a meme can travel across completely unrelated communities and still land. It doesn't need to be understood to spread.
Leary believed ideas don't copy themselves cleanly as they travel. Every time an idea is received it gets processed through whoever is holding it, filtered through their experience, and comes out changed. Every share alters both the image and the person receiving it. The meme changes you a little every time you absorb it.
Chess connects internet culture to magical thinking. She argues that circulating an image online is closer to ritual than communication — you're not just sending information, you're participating in something collective that accumulates meaning through repetition. That's exactly what meme sharing feels like when it's working.
This is the main deck — the full research, methodology, and documentation of the project. Start here if you want the complete picture.





Before Meme Transmission existed, these were the experiments that got it there — five small projects made in five days, each one probing a different angle of how memes carry emotion. This is the research behind the research.
Meme Transmission treats degradation as a serious study. I pulled archival Reddit comments from 2013-2020 to show how meaning collapses from full explanations to single-word fragments. Each forward loses context, color, and clarity.
By stage 5, you can't even remember what you're looking at. The work documents what actually happened to all of this.