Cat Lauighan’s experimental typography
|French artist and designer Cat Lauighan lives in Brooklyn where she creates experimental typography and compelling mixed media works with a uniquely muted color palette. Her illustrations were recently featured in the latest and final issue of the always interesting Amelia’s Magazine. By her own admission, she hates ‘cheese and snails and loves to eat eggs’.
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