2026 Senior Exhibition Artists 2026 Senior Exhibition Artists: Nahjae Galleano

About Nahjae Galleano

Nahjae Galleano is a graphic designer and interdisciplinary artist based in New England. She will be graduating in Spring 2026 as a Commonwealth Scholar with a BFA in graphic design. Her work is both process and research driven, centering around branding, poster design, and typography. Her exploration of 90s and 00s art + design heavily influences her work, with designers like David Carson and April Greiman, along with Emigre publications, serving as inspiration. She has several years of design experience, both in and outside the classroom, working with local groups such as Fall River Public Schools, UMassD’s Social Media and Marketing Team, and eXpand Realty.

Statement

Repeating History: Graphic Designers and the AI Wave is a two-year long project that started as a research paper for the Honors APEX. As artificial intelligence has become integrated in the creative fields, graphic design discourse has become polarized; designers are either optimistic for the future of AI, or strongly opposed to its use. Similar dialogue emerged during the advent of the Macintosh in the 1980s, when designers were either intrigued by the machine or in favor of traditional graphic design methods. Given these observed similarities, this website examines how graphic designers are responding to the use of artificial intelligence in the field and whether these responses mirrored designers’ reactions to previous technological shifts. Using a qualitative research approach, I applied thematic and discourse analysis methods across a range of primary and secondary sources.

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