Natalie R. Chiovitti is an interdisciplinary communication designer, visual artist, and researcher who explores the intersection of art, design, and technology to make sense of the dense information landscape, physical and digital, that surrounds us everyday. Informed by a Research through Design approach, Natalie creates publications, installations, visual identities, and participatory zine-making workshops that facilitate an interplay between individual making and reaching out to the community. Her practice is situated within this post-digital era of the information age, in which she navigates the role of communication design in creating cultural meanings, practices, and experiences to facilitate sustainable consumption. Natalie repurposes and recontextualizes the familiar visual language of advertising to foster a network of interactions and plurality of individual and community narratives as part of the main messaging.

Natalie holds an Honours Bachelor of Arts in Communication, Culture, Information & Technology and Art & Art History from University of Toronto Mississauga joint program with Sheridan College, and is pursing a Master of Design (Interdisciplinary) focusing on communication design from Emily Carr University of Art + Design (ECU). Her work has been recognized through awards such as Dr. Annie Smith Graduate Scholarship, The Women’s Art Association of Canada Helga Scott Scholarship, Blackwood Gallery Curatorial Project Award for Everyday Encounters Exhibition, and ECU’s (Re)framing Emergent Practices–Interim Thesis Project Development Scholarship.

Natalie has worked as a communication designer within publishing, education, and marketing/advertising fields. Further, she is currently a co-chair for the Registered Graphic Designers (RGD) student committee. Natalie has served as a creative resident in the Visual Arts Mississauga’s 8-month Creative Residency, a research assistant in the Summer Research Opportunity Program for the Institute of Communication, Culture, Information, and Technology and the Studio for Extensive Aesthetics. Building on teaching assistant roles in undergraduate design studio courses at University of Toronto Mississauga, Sheridan College, and ECU; Natalie was a teaching fellow in communication design at ECU.