101 Best California Experiences
Illustration & Lettering
Grace Danico is a Filipino-American creative director, archivist, and DJ who has shaped visual systems for billions at Meta and stewarded the global illustration community as an executive board leader for ICON. Operating at the intersection of brand architecture, editorial craft, and visual history, she builds scalable creative worlds informed by an archivist's eye and a DJ's ear.
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- Creative Direction
- Design Direction
- Art Direction
- Creative Strategy
- Visual Storytelling
- Brand Systems
- Campaigns
- Packaging
- Music Curation
Selected Clients
- Meta
- Dropbox
- Adobe
- New York Times
- Warby Parker
- Samsung
- Penguin Random House
- The Grammys
Selected Work
9 / Projects
Bloom & Plume Coffee
Brand Systems & Strategy
Los Angeles Archivists Collective
Brand Systems & Strategy
Forum App
Meta — Brand System & Strategy
Red Bull Music Academy Festival Los Angeles
Surface Pattern · Illustration
Creative Archive
Illustration, Lettering, Design
Facebook Groups
Facebook — Creative Direction
Pabst Blue Ribbon Sound Society
Mural & Illustration
Facebook Marketplace
Holiday — Creative Direction
Industry Recognition
Juries & Awards
ICON: The Illustration Conference
Co-Vice President / Treasurer
2018–2024
Society of Publication Designers
Illustrations Portfolio Review
Reviewer, 2023
Society of Illustrators (NYC)
Illustrators 62 Jury
Uncommissioned category, 2019
American Illustration
Illustrators 40
Selected winner, 2021
Society of Illustrators
Illustrators 63
Selected winner, 2021
Lectures & Workshops
2026
- 5 Things I Learned By Being A DJ, Product Creative Community @ Facebook
2024
- It's OK to Not Be OK: Mental Health Realness, ICON12: Mainstage, Minneapolis, MN — panel host
- Be Your Own Archivist: A How-to Guide, ICON12, Minneapolis, MN
2023
- Love Is The Message: Disco as Revolution and Form of Self-Expression, Inspired By Lecture Series @ Meta
2020
- Creating Diversity and Inclusivity Through Outreach and Collaboration, ARCHIVES✻RECORDS 2020, Society of American Archivists
2019
- Designing for Music, UCRN at KXLU, Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, CA
2018
- Be Your Own Archivist: A How-to Guide, ICON10, Detroit, MI
- Exclusion By Design, AIGA Detroit, Detroit, MI
- ZineFest, UCI, Irvine, CA
- Creating Diversity and Inclusivity Through Outreach and Collaboration, ArchivesNOW, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA
- UX @ YouTube, San Bruno, CA
