Studio Grand is a multidisciplinary design and visual communications studio.
The studio’s practice is pragmatic, synthesizing craft, culture and design to elevate narratives. Studio Grand specializes in visual identity, typography and type design, exhibitions, and publications.
Jaamal Benjamin is founder and designer at Studio Grand. Formerly a dancer in Hip-Hop dance theatre, his interests as a designer, artist and educator center on crafting parallels between the Black experience, mark-making, social change, movement, and music.
He received an MFA in Graphic Design from the Yale School of Art in New Haven, Connecticut. Jaamal previously completed his studies in type design through the Type@Cooper Extended Program. He has also served as a Teaching Assistant in the Principles of Typeface Design and Principles of Display Typeface workshops at The Cooper Union in New York City, where he has supported both students and professionals. He has also taught graphic design at the Cooper Union Summer Arts Intensive program and served as a visiting professor at Wesleyan University in Middletown, CT.