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Curiosity and research are at the center of my practice. I specialize in systems thinking, conceptual design, and typography. I’m currently seeking roles as a visual designer in the Bay Area.

BFA Graphic Design @ Cal Poly SLO (’26)
Living / Working in San Francisco

theomilnerhansen@gmail.com
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inDex: The 2026 Cal Poly SLO Graphic Design BFA Show

Developed as the identity for Cal Poly SLO’s 2026 Graphic Design BFA Exhibition, inDex centers visual design as connective tissue and celebrates the process of iteration. The title references the home of Art and Design, which is usually called ‘Dexter’ for short (or the Walter F. Dexter Building for long). The exhibition also serves as a literal index, connecting students to one another through design and community.

Spring 2026
Art Direction, Exhibition Design

Finding the Sunny Side: A poster series for Louise Sandhaus

I created this poster series at the request of faculty to advertise a talk by design historian, educator, and AIGA medalist Louise Sandhaus. Her research and writings position California as a site of upheaval and landscape-scale change, which informed my choices in material and composition. Final displays generated interest for the talk through unconventional engagement with space and other print material.

Spring 2026
Poster Design, Spatial Design

The Pearl Caviar Company

Pearl is a speculative packaging design project that aims to demystify fish roe, bringing affordable caviars into the realm of attainable luxury as an adventurous charcuterie ingredient. Using ‘reveal’ as a guiding verb, the dielines mix bright and approachable design with flavor cues and sourcing information to position the product as honestly as possible.

Winter 2026
Packaging, Interactive Design

And per se And

And per se And (&) is a series of three speculative magazines that investigate typography as a site of visual and material politics. A hypothetically ongoing publication, I curated, designed, and bound three issues, each with a distinct binding and content framework:
· On Construction
· Type as Voice
· On Opacity

Fall 2025
Design Research, Publication Design