CLIENTS :

826 National
826 LA
826 Valencia
Chronicle Books
City of Long Beach
COCFA
Echo Park Art Walk
Good Magazine
Google
Houston Hospitality
Inner-City Arts
Koreatown Youth + Community Center
The La Brea Tar Pits
LA Louver Gallery
League of American Bicyclists
Machine Project
Natural History Museum of Los Angeles
NatGeo
Netflix
Presente
Wyss Foundation
+ more

Parallel-Play is a hybrid creative practice that thrives at the intersection of Graphic Design, Pedagogy, and Advocacy.

Our design services and partnerships are focused on organizations that are Arts and Education driven, and NPOs serving their communities.

Our pedagogical practices are informed by the lack of cultural literacy within visual culture as well as the lack of diversity of lived experiences at the creative table of visual culture.

Our advocacy work is driven by the need for more affordable and equitable pathways to design education and careers. We are interested in investigating and imagining educational and professional environments that are able to transmogrify a diverse range of lived experiences into sound design practices, and rich visual storytelling.

*Parallel-Play is a stage of social development where children play separately but adjacent to one another—they are engaged in a constant process of observation and adaptation—each modifying their own play accordingly. We are always observing, adapting, and making our work feel like play.

Shannon Doronio Chavez is a graphic designer, educator, speaker, and eadvocate. She is currently the Department Chair of the Graphic & Multimedia Design program at the College of the Canyons in Valencia, California.

Jay Doronio is a designer, illustrator, and director who has served up fresh content for clients like Google, Netflix, Wyss Foundation, NatGeo, and Showtime.

SPEAKING
Overload: Mental Health and Design Education
The Aspect Ratio - EPISODE 6: WHAT CAN DESIGN EDUCATORS DO!
Teaching
Student work samples