(b. USA) is an independent graphic designer and Assistant Professor / Program Director
of Visual Communication at Iceland University of the Arts.

Recent projects include Out Freedom Way at the Latvian Museum of Decorative Arts
Design (Riga) and Legislation Kitchen with Artists in Iceland Visa Action Group [AIVAG]
at Gallery Port (Reykjavík). During June 2023 and July 2025, Adam was a Researcher in
Residence in Freetown Christiania (Copenhagen), investigating the history of anti-capitalist
graphic design under anarchy. During Iceland's DesignMarch 2024, he held the exhibition
Orange Work at Núllið Gallerý (Reykjavík).

For the past decade, he has collaborated on projects with cultural institutions such as
the California Museum, di Rosa Center for Contemporary Art, Southern Utah Museum of Art,
Chabot Space and Science Center, the Nordic House, and Höfuðstöðin, among others.
Adam has designed for an array of nonprofits including the Center for the Study
of Political Graphics, FairVote and the Paiute Indian Tribe of Utah.

Adam received his MFA from the University of California, Davis, where he studied
the design of the US' voting system. His project won UC Davis' Savageau Award,
given to "recognize and celebrate creative and original contributions to the
discipline of design." During the 21-22 academic year, he received a Fulbright
/ Icelandic Ministry of Education & Culture grant.

His current research interests include connections between graphic design and free states,
anti-/capitalism, democracy, authoritarianism and utopia(s).