I am Cristina Alegria, a multidisciplinary designer from Spain, based in Dublin. My two projects shown below show my interest in typography, image making, design for print, moving image, and experiential design. My practice is process-driven and rooted in experimentation, often exploring design as memory, emotion, and design as a feeling. I am interested in collaborative design and the ways creative exchange can shape boundaries. I collaborated with three other amazing designers, Elli, Hannah, and Justina, to create the GradX 2026 Visual Identity that you see in use across this website.
Traces of Loss
This audiovisual and projected installation explores how loss continues to exist through the traces people leave behind. When someone dies, they rarely disappear completely. They remain present through objects, spaces, memories, and digital remains. These traces create a blurred boundary between absence and presence, where loss becomes something that continues to live within our everyday surroundings. This project translates theses traces into an immersive experience that makes absence visible. By doing so, this project offers a sense of recognition and comfort, reframing loss as a shared and enduring experience. By visualising the traces left by absent people, this project suggests that this ongoing presence is a natural and meaningful part of remembering.
Teleconnections
This project explores how weather and climate are communicated through a typographic bilingual publication positioned between science, personal narrative, and cultural history. It focuses on the atmospheric ‘teleconnections’ between Ireland and Spain, revealing how shared weather systems shape memory, culture, and everyday life across distance. It aims to uncover shared experiences across both countries, showing how the same atmospheric systems influence emotion, identity, and daily life. The project gives voice to the lived experiences of weather across countries and migration, creating a sense of connection, belonging, and shared space. Typography plays a central role, shifting in scale, typeface, weight, and rhythm to reflect changing weather patterns and the relationship between both languages.
