Santi Lawrachawee

Santi Lawrachawee, co-founder a communication design studio “Practical Design Studio”. In the mean time, he has also been teaching at Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok University, Rangsit University and many organizations. Working with the Education Institute made him realize that ‘designer roles are no longer limited by commercial value and can expand to create various design projects and activities within society’.

Santi is also very active in the arts and design community in Thailand. His works lie in various positions such as design director of visual identity design for Thai Health Promotion Foundation, The Democrat Party, Bangkok Art and Culture Centre

(BACC) and Thailand Happiness Center. He akso was design director for “Show Me Thai” exhibition at Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo. He was a design consultant of Royal Institute Thai Dictionary 2011, and recently he and Practical Design Studio are invited to design the cover of “typographics ti; type trip to Bangkok” the magazine by Japan Typography Association.

In addition, Santi has presented his solo & group exhibitions e.g. “Yes I am not”(solo 2008), “Yes we are not”(2008), “Krung Thep: Kao Nok Ook Nai”(2009), “No conical hats: Southeast Asian works on paper”(Singapore)(2010), “Thai-yo”(2010) and the solo exhibition in Singapore “I am not me. This map is not mine.”(2011). Latest in 2013, he's joined the ddd gallery 190th exhibition “Graphic West 5 - type trip to Osaka” at ddd gallery, Osaka, Japan.

In 2009, Santi initiated the project collaborated with his studio and Thai Graphic Designer Association (ThaiGa) “I am a Thai graphic designer exhibition” which presented 1,146 works from Thai graphic designers. In 2010, He curated the paper design exhibitions “Paper Matter” at Bangkok Art and Culture Centre 

and co-organized “heART to Heart” exhibition which presented 19 works from Thai and international graphic designers under theme “HOPE”&“LOVE” on construction hoarding in front of Centralworld building, Rajprasong Junction. He also initiated the graphic design forum “Somewhere Thai” that included 50 speakers to represent “Thainess” in design work. And in 2011, he was co-curator for “Let's Panic” exhibition at Bangkok Art and Culture Centre (BACC).