Paul Alvord is an artist and designer living in San Miguel de Allende, Guanajuato, Mexico. He received a bachelor’s degree in Massachusetts, where he majored in fine arts. As a career graphic designer and now a digital product designer, he’s transferred the design tenets of composition, rhythm, and form as well as application techniques. Growing up within an hour’s drive from New York City, he learned to appreciate the arts from a very early age. It was in the late 1990s when he truly started exploring mixed media, collage, and works on paper. Artistic influences include Robert Rauschenberg, Beck, golden-age hip-hop, Julie Mehretu, and Kim Jung Gi among others. After relocating to San Miguel de Allende in 2020, he has found himself part of a vibrant art community full of energy, encouragement, and variety.