WELCOME TO MY ROOM

NEW HAVEN / CT
LAST UPDATED 6/24

My name is Gabby and I live in a dorm room the size of a shoebox. Most of this work lives on my walls or under my bed.

I grew up in Manila and currently study graphic design (among many other things) at Yale. My practice largely explores the hyper-personal, the handmade and the ephemeral, and I’m interested in design as a tool for building community and in reimagining more mindful and personal alternatives to our current design systems. I also like making people laugh. On campus, I’m a graphic design assistant at the Yale Center for British Art, Head of Creative at 17o1 Records and Design at Yale Co-President. I’m currently spending my summer illustrating for Bode and designing at Special Offer. 

It’s very nice to meet you!

NO LOVE IS EVER WASTED

ONGOING

Ready-made pieces that I’ve reworked to be infinitely added to, mended and worn over and over and over again. What does it mean to create a garment that grows with the wearer and accumulates as opposed to loses significance over time? How might we reimagine a fashion system that honors memory, the hyper-personal and the ephemeral? 

YELLOW THINGS

SPRING 2023

A zine of all the yellow things in my room.
16 pages, 2 color risograph. 

WEAR & REPAIR

SPRING 2024

For my mom.

17O1 RECORDS

2023-2024

PHOTOGRAPHY BY RORY SCHOENBERGER AND KATHRYN ORTIZ
WEBSITE DEVELOPED BY EVAN KIRKILES

Branding and creative direction for 17o1 Records, Yale’s only record label dedicated to the production, promotion and performance of original student music. Website developed by Evan Kirkiles through Design at Yale.

In Fall 2023, my friends and I resurrected 17o1 Records from an eight-year hiatus. I redesigned the 17o1 identity by taking inspiration from the world of amateur music itself. 17o1 puts the student in student band: we’re really just a bunch of scrappy college students running a scrappy record label, and I wanted our brand identity to embrace that.