Info — Asilos Magdalena™

Manuel Sanchez better known as Asilos Magdalena™ is a Mexican American graphic designer based in New York City. He majored in fine arts at the University of Arizona. Manuel primary focuses on Brand Identity Promotional and Printed materials. He is a strong believer in the graphic design theory of black and white.

Manuel previously served as a graphic designer at Combo©, a design studio on 167 Canal St. New York City. Have questions about graphic design services? Or would like to collaborate? Feel free to shoot me an email.

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La Fama Type™

Velorio Sonora™

Asilos Magdalena is the foundation — the world I’m building from. It’s part archive, part fever dream, and completely me. Inside it live fragments of my family, my ancestors, and the stories I’ve inherited. Through design, I try to honor them — reworking the visual languages of the industry I admire and turning them into something personal, sacred, and alive.

I use the order of Swiss design as a mask — a structure that lets me move through systems that weren’t made for me. Beneath that order lives the human: brown, spiritual, imperfect. Every grid holds ghosts; every clean line hides something holy.

This space holds both what exists and what almost did — client work, rejected directions, and symbols from unfinished stories. It’s archival, not out of nostalgia, but as a way to remember possibility.

Within this world, smaller universes form — like Velorio Sonora, a body of work born from faith, death, and beauty. Each one reimagines what design can hold when you let it breathe, fracture, and ache.

Asilos Magdalena isn’t a portfolio.

It’s a living archive — a dark space between order and emotion, memory and design.
It’s me saying: I belong here too.

The Dark Space Between the Bars of Asylum.
Viviendo en el oscuro.