JACK LAMBORN

is an American graphic designer, holding a BFA in Communication Design from Pratt Institute. They have been practicing graphic design since 2018.

Jack is very interested in logo design, eccentricity, layout design, levity, high dpi scans, imagemaking, reverence, music (all), and red/green color combinations.


WORK

PUBLICATIONS FLACO
PILLED
DEEP STATE
UNDATEABLE HOBBIES
HOW WE WALK ON THE MOON

BRANDING
 MISTEE
LIVING ROOM
SWEET STERILITY

POSTERS JESUS WEPT
YASEMIN PARTY
CRISIS ACTRESS

MISCELLANEOUSRE–ACTIONS


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     2025

FLACO




From Blurring Books: FLACO is the comprehensive visual book which captures Flaco's incredible year of freedom, documented by many of the key photographers who followed his sojourns across the city. The book highlights the work of artists, across a range of media from totem poles to stitchwork, who were inspired by his story, and is the sole publication to feature the memorial objects left at the base of Flaco's favorite oak in Central Park, after his death. 

Creative direction by Jonathan Hollingsworth.
Book design by Jack Lamborn.
Typography by Arlyn Nathan.
Cover photo by Chris Ang.

Available for purchase here.  





PILLED is at once a speculative (currently in development) anthology and self publishing initiative dissecting memes as cultural objects, illustrating and clarifying the process by which various artifacts of internet culture gain power in the collective subconscious and, in turn, “real” life, and analyzing the real world consequences of said process.

Book 2 of 6, The Shychael Effect, is complete.
 A PDF copy The Shychael Effect is available for download here. 



IN PROGRESS:

Book 1: Viral Design


Analyzing design characteristics of memes, with specific respect paid to their hyperutilitarian quality, and their recurrence in the digital age.

Book 3: Pill Genealogy 
Delving into the redpill movement and the process by which harmful content might be abstracted outward into “meaninglessness” and subsumed into a wider culture.

Book 4: Posting As Portraiture 
Breaking down wojaks as signifiers of emotion, identity, and provocation, and chronicling a hidden digital culture war through the use.
Book 5: Looksmaxxing: A Primer 
An attempt to clearly define and standardize the incel practice of looksmaxxing, along with analyzing its rise in popularity as a pseudo-ironic trend among younger audiences.
Book 6: Culture Slide Using the takeaways from the previous books, stepping back and taking a wider look at culture today in relation to the internet and the ever-shifting Overton Window.
Each publication will be distributed in print (paid) and online (free).

View drafts for Books 3, 4, and 5 here.



Are.na - Thesis References

DEEP STATE




Deep State is a culture magazine investigating online spaces, designed alongside collaborators Darla Warlick and Kennedy McNeil. Our first issue delves into the practice of blogging, and the ways in which the base concept of a blog informs digital experience today.  



Interior scans of Deep State. 

UNDATEABLE HOBBIES




Undateable Hobbies is a 16 page pamphlet fold zine, printed double sided on vellum bristol via riso and thread bound w/ Jil Sander shoelace.

Interior scans of Undateable Hobbies.

HOW WE WALK ON
THE MOON



How We Walk On The Moon is a 100-page book developed over the course of my first graphic design intensive, dedicated to the life and work of experimental cellist Arthur Russell. 


Selected spreads from How We Walk On The Moon.

Download full pdf here.


How We Walk On The Moon represents the synthesis and interpolation of three books developed earlier in the semester. The first of these is A Little Lost, a visual essay centering the life and work of Arthur Russell.


Download full pdf here.

The second book to be developed was I Couldn’t Say It To Your Face, a collection of writings and conversations either featuring or centering Arthur Russell and his work.



Full bookmap of I Couldn’t Say It To Your Face.

Download full pdf here.

The third and penultimate book of the semester developed before HWWOTM was I Want To See All My Friends At Once, which explored Russells vast discography.

Download full pdf here.

MISTEE



Mistee is the culmination of a semester’s worth of work in my Branding and Messaging class. Students had to create a brand from the ground up, with the caveat that the company had to sell air.

The full case study can be viewed here.



Print mockups for unrolled packaging designs for different canned products.




Print mockup for unfolded packaging design for diffuser container.


LIVING ROOM



Pictured here are the posters and score for Living Room, a happening I designed for my Integrated VisCom I course. 

After holding the happening, I treated the posters like a stylistic kit of parts in order to design a 24-page booklet meant to document the happening. Pictured here are selected scans from the physical booklet.

Download full pdf here.

SWEET STERILITY



Playlist cover

Sweet Sterility is an exercise in branding and marketing. I was tasked with creating a playlist based on a scent’s “vibe.” To me, the scent seemed citric and artificial, so I created a playlist of primarily electronic music, with visual branding to emphasize this. 

Tracklist
1. Boring Angel - Oneohtrix Point Never     2. Stained Glass Body - Jefre Cantu-Ledesma     3. Tone Bone Kone - Arthur Russell     4. 4 - Aphex Twin     5. Vacuum - Gang Gang Dance     6. Noise is a Social Skill (V.0.8)     7. No Embrace - Dirty Projectors     8. Archangel - Burial     9. The Work of Art in the Age of Cultural Overproduction - Tim Hecker     10. What’s Not Mine - Cate Le Bon     11. Always Randy - Severed Heads     12. Melt Away - yes/and     13. Platonic - Haroumi Hosono     14. Don’t Be Seen With Me - Oppenheimer Analysis


Physical Promotion - Sticker Sheets
8.5x11, printed with Roland UV printer on matte sticker paper 

View Sweet Sterility Digital Promotion here.

JESUS WEPT



Jesus Wept is a live radio show, hosted by myself and my cohosts on WPIR Pratt Institute radio. I’ve tasked myself as the show’s creative director, creating and colloaborating on weekly posters for the project.


The project allows me experiment with levity in graphic design, something I feel is very important to maintain within the grander scheme of my personal practice. 
A full archive of the Jesus Wept visual output is available at @weptagram.

YASEMIN PARTY (with bonus flyers!)




Yasemin Party is an ongoing event series, for which I design the flyers.
Yasemin Party Gallery



Bonus flyers!