Laura Coombs is a graphic designer in New York—designing visual identities, websites, and publications in collaboration with institutions, artists, architects, and publishers. Recent collaborators include MIT Press, Verso Books, Park Books, Columbia Books on Architecture and the City, Carnegie Museum of Art, Lisson Gallery, and David Kordansky Gallery. Since 2017, she has been head of design at the New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York City, including its technology affiliates New Inc and Rhizome.

Coombs has spoken at institutions including Strelka Institute, Harvard GSD, Princeton University, Columbia GSAPP, UPENN, Yale School of Art, Cooper Union, Sci-Arc, Pioneer Works, OCAD, and Art Center, among others, and taught workshops at Southland Institute, Otis College of Art, MICA, and Princeton University. Recent writing has been published in Sourcetype and The Serving Library Annual 2022/23. Her design practice has been recognized globally by entities including the AIGA, Art Director’s Club, Brno Biennial, Type Director’s Club, Tokyo Type Director’s Club, D&AD, the AIA, and the Center for Book Arts. Recent award-winning publications include Deserts are Not Empty, New York Review of Architecture, and Cyberfeminism Index.

Coombs holds a B.Arch from Cornell University and an MFA from the Yale School of Art. She teaches graphic design at Cooper Union and Princeton University.