Dylan Fracareta

Critic: Graphic Design

Dylan Fracareta is an American graphic designer, artist and educator. After spending his formative years in The Netherlands (1995–99) he received his MFA from Yale University in 2006. He is the co-founding art director of New York-based architecture magazine PIN–UP (2006–15) and the former design director of the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago, where he was responsible for implementing the MCA’s new graphic identity, exhibition design and catalogues (2015–18). From 2018–19 he worked as the senior director of creative design at the Montreal-based fashion/e-commerce company SSENSE. In 2020 he founded the Rome-based ICCP (International Cultural Commercial Practice), which specializes in publication design, identity systems and digital applications. He has taught as an adjunct professor at RISD, CalArts, UCONN, City College and Fordham University. He is the recipient of the American Academy in Rome 2019 Cynthia Hazen Polsky and Leon Polsky Rome Prize in Design.