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Hello! I am a graphic designer, web designer, illustrator and artist with an emphasis in print, typography, illustration, and semiotics based in San Francisco, California. 

I am excited by all things profane, arcane, weird and everything in between. My work draws from tattoo traditions, folk art, and counter-culture aesthetics. While I embrace digital practices, I often break away from the screen and hold myself accountable to meticulous standards of craftsmanship and hand work. My goal is to disrupt the lines between digital construction and bespoke handiwork. For me, the most compelling work emerges from the study of these trade and craft traditions shaped by diverse cultural perspectives. My approach to design must involve the rigorous understanding of the systems that serve workers, designers and clients. I am passionate about work for inclusive, accessible communities. 


       
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Education
University of San Francisco
Spring 2024 – Spring 2026
Design, BA
Cum Laude

◦ Dean’s List, 4 Semesters

◦ Visual Communication, Web Design,   Typography, Community Engaged Design, Publication Design, Print Making

San Francisco City College
Spring 2023 – Fall 2023

Santa Rosa Junior College
Fall 2021 – Fall 2022
Employment
Design Student Assistant
July 2025 – May 2026
University of San Francisco

◦ Designed multi-department newsletters     distributed biweekly to 200+ students and staff, responsible for layout, typography and editorial consistency
◦ Produced promotional materials for 5+ exhibition and academic events, ensuring visual cohesion across print and digital assets

Barista
May 2023 – July 2025
Blue Bottle Coffee, San Francisco

◦ High volume environment, multitasking,            communication
◦ Delegated tasks in an organized workflow
◦ Crucial member of one of the highest sales locations in the company

Skills
Design Tools
◦ Adobe Illustrator
◦ Adobe Photoshop
◦ Adobe InDesign
◦ Adobe AfterEffects
◦ Adobe Lightroom
◦ Cavalry

Web + Digital Tools
◦ HTML
◦ CSS
◦ VS Code
◦ Figma

Productivity
◦ Google + Microsoft

Office Software
◦ Excel
◦ Notion
◦ Evernote



Parker Leabo
Designer, Illustrator, Artist
Born, raised and based in San Francisco Designer and Illustrator specializing in 
Print Media, Publication Design, and Typography Contact

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Plastik Comb  Magazine Promotional Materials

March 2026

Web Design
A series of eight promotional compositions created for Plastik Comb Magazine, an experimental typography, art, and design publication.
The brief called for three distinct approaches, analog, digital, and hybrid, and the work expands on that framework, producing a suite that collectively interrogates how the same identity can fragment and reassemble across different modes of making.



The analog pieces are built from physical collage: torn magazine ephemera, found letterforms, and cut paper layered into dense, tactile compositions where type becomes object and object becomes type. The digital works push in the opposite direction, using photographic texture, scanned documents, and original imagery as raw material for compositions that are visually distressed but structurally controlled, blurring the boundary between analog warmth and digital precision. The hybrid pieces synthesize both sensibilities, often pairing flat, designed color fields against richly textured photographic grounds, or setting clean geometric type against collaged surfaces where the seams show.

Across all eight, typography is treated as primary image-making material rather than a communication layer, letterforms fragment, overlap, invert, and crowd the frame, resisting legibility in favor of visual energy. The constraint of the Issue 10 identifier becomes a generative device, appearing as numeral, word, and abstracted form throughout the series.
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