The Alphabetum (A—Z)


* New Work/personal
experimental research

Photography series

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Featured in the second edition of Mastering Type, 2025


2022— Professional-Scott Raffe Spirit Award Graphex #53 Award (Art Directors Club of Tulsa).


2022— Featured in Slanted Publishers︎︎︎
Slanted Magazine #40 Experimental Type.

2021— Exhibited at the the Eula Mae Edwards Museum & Gallery.  Clovis, New Mexico

The Alphabetum series combines digital, analog, and experimental strategies, which work with improvisational modes of visual inquiry. I use the camera as an exploratory tool to exercise my imagination and critically study a repertoire of found objects and materials. I explore typography through objects with transparent, reflective, and porous qualities, which act as agents to modulate and activate color, pattern, texture, light, shadow, and movement in front of the camera. During the process, I am struck by the ease with which typographic forms move in new realms of interpretative possibilities.

2.25 x 4.25in Marquee sign letters on clear (weathered) rigid acrylic panel, for outdoor reader board signs.


mariofbm [at] auburn.edu / 9I8 . 5O6 . 5224 
mario F. Bocanegra M. ::: Graphic / Motion Designer + Educator