With over three decades of experience in design, branding, and fine arts, Dr. Silvia Pease is designer, theorist, educator, and entrepreneur; founder of international design studios Pease Design; Carregal Pease, and 1231 org. As a creative director of multi-disciplinary design firms, Pease strategically positioned and designed the newsstand covers for Selecciones Reader’s Digest worldwide. Her creative portfolio of multicultural projects includes Guggenheim Partners; Publicitas; Mc. Donald Foundation; American Express Latinoamérica; Lufthansa Cargo; Corpevents, Varta Batteries, Mercedes Benz Fashion Show, Pinta Art Fair, among others. In 2010, Pease was the Senior Vice President for Reel Code Media Technologies branding and positioning Augmented Reality Apps. Currently, at her studio 1231, Pease leads selected projects from interactive mobile to print media to integrated branding systems. Pease’s designs were published in Fresh Ideas in Letterhead Design by Rockport and PRINT magazine. She has received two gold awards and a silver award from The American Institute of Graphic Arts (AIGA).
She was a fellowship recipient and holds a PhD in Philosophy, Aesthetics, and Art Theory from IDSVA; a master’s in Multimedia Design from the University of Miami, and a Bachelor of Arts in Graphic design and Art History from the University of Miami.
research interests
Pease’s research lies at the intersections of design philosophy, the philosophy of aesthetics, politics, gender, and Latin America to identify how visual plasticity serves to represent interests and reshape identities. She discusses this research on the politics of visual representation and design philosophy in a variety of scholarly papers, public outlets, and in her academic practice at Florida International University.
Dissertation: Mujer Visible. Re-thinking Mass Produced and Mass-embodied Argentine Art, considers a combined methodology of narrative and hermeneutic phenomenological inquiry on how popular mass-produced and mass-embodied artworks authored by women, in Argentina 1940s until the present day, facilitate slippages on visibility as an ongoing process of becoming a “Mujer Visible’ (Visible Woman).
