Design

INTERVIEW | Siyu Liu

INTERVIEW | Siyu Liu

Siyu Liu, originally from China, is an architect and artist based in Spain. After working in the architecture area for six years, she turned her direction into craft with intercultural and identity research during the pandemic. Through her craftworks, she focuses on intercultural research, uncovering and elucidating subtle differences in various cultures that arise from the same physical elements.

INTERVIEW | Chelsea Ning

INTERVIEW | Chelsea Ning

Chelsea Ning is a photographer and textile designer currently based in Providence, Rhode Island. She is grappling with subtle feelings based on the ideas of dissonance, self-identity, concealment, displacement, isolation, and nostalgia in her work. Chelsea has been interested in different ways of media based on visual expressions, including film installations, paintings, and prints.

INTERVIEW | Yating Liu

INTERVIEW | Yating Liu

Yating Liu is a graphic designer currently living and working in Beijing, after residing in Hong Kong, and New York. in her creative process she strives to create designs that evoke a sense of harmony and balance and are eye-appealing for the audience. Due to having lived in various cities, she can infuse both Eastern and Western cultures into her work, as well as provide rational and meaningful creative reasons.

INTERVIEW | Carlos Almenar Diaz

INTERVIEW | Carlos Almenar Diaz

Venezuelan-born artist Carlos Almenar Diaz is a French-Australian citizen who has won multiple awards as an established banknote designer and contemporary artist. Carlos believes that the dynamism between the design concepts, chromatic theories, and the printing process makes a perfect synergy between visual design and art. His artwork continues to explore and investigate these optical experiments.

INTERVIEW | Xinyu Zhang

INTERVIEW | Xinyu Zhang

Xinyu Zhang, also known as DayDay, is a contemporary artist originally from Wuhan, Hubei, China, and currently based in New York. Drawing inspiration from daily observations, existential reflections, and a relentless curiosity to explore diverse materials, Xinyu's art is distinguished by minimalist lines and symbols, continually seeking a delicate balance between design principles and fine art.

INTERVIEW | Eunju Park

INTERVIEW | Eunju Park

Eunju Park is a Korean multidisciplinary designer and artist who specializes in 3D, motion graphics and speculative design, currently based in the Netherlands. In her artistic practices, she attempts to reflect the current phenomena that are caused by and deeply related to humans, such as the environmental crisis. Her works serve to captivate by storytelling through mesmerizing graphic images, questioning the present, and imagining the future.

INTERVIEW | Xiaodong Ma

INTERVIEW | Xiaodong Ma

Chicago-based visual artist and hybrid designer Xiaodong Ma was born in Nanjing, China, in 1991. In the interplay between dimensions, Xiaodong Ma found his canvas for exploration. The art practice of translation between 2D and 3D is fertile ground for experimenting with unknown outcomes, challenging viewers to see and experience familiar forms in unexpected ways.

INTERVIEW | Amber Xu

INTERVIEW | Amber Xu

Amber Xu, an award-winning Motion Designer, Art Director, and Illustrator based in the SF Bay Area, boasts a diverse background in user experience, advertising, branding, and journalism. With a portfolio that spans multiple creative disciplines, Amber's work is celebrated for its unique blend of storytelling and captivating visuals. As an industry trailblazer, she continues to inspire and innovate, leaving an indelible mark on the world of design.

INTERVIEW | Alexandra Tiligadi

INTERVIEW | Alexandra Tiligadi

Alexandra Tiligadi embodies a life dedicated to the convergence of architecture, poetry, and design. In 2022, she founded "11 Modern Muses", a dynamic, ever-evolving place of interweaving art, poetry, and architecture. Here, her creations inspire mindful living, speaking to art enthusiasts' souls. Alexandra Tiligadi continues to weave her vibrant creativity into the fabric of life, leaving an indelible mark on the artistic landscape.

INTERVIEW | Xinyi Shao

INTERVIEW | Xinyi Shao

Xinyi Shao is a visual designer based in Brooklyn, NY. She specializes in brand identity, editorial design, generative design, and research. Her research- and process-driven design approach provides unique perspectives for problem-solving and creation. She works with contradictions to create tension and navigates between opposing forces to bring sophistication.

INTERVIEW | Shuqi You

INTERVIEW | Shuqi You

Shuqi You is a New York-based fashion designer. You's design and art approach is based on a lengthy period of individual experimentation with materials and three-dimensional objects, with an emphasis on media characteristics, technique development, and physical existence. In her current participatory project, Wiegenlied D498, she examined the contradictions between personal memories and immediate circumstances.

INTERVIEW | Hao Wen (Claudia) Chung

INTERVIEW | Hao Wen (Claudia) Chung

Hao Wen Chung, also known as Claudia, is a graphic designer and artist who was born in Taiwan and currently splits her time between residing in Taipei, Taiwan, and Brooklyn, New York. Although she is an accomplished designer with an eye for precision, her photography and ceramic artworks reveal another side of her that is emotive, free-spirited, and exquisite. The naturalness of things can be seen in Claudia's artwork.

INTERVIEW | Paria Peyravi

INTERVIEW | Paria Peyravi

Paria Peyravi is an illustrator and designer from Iran. When a story comes to an end, the storytelling begins. For a storyteller, it is only the beginning of imagination, exploration, and ideation. A new project is a new chance to discover an inner voice and the world outside. A new story is a chance to create an intersection of words, imagination, and perception.

INTERVIEW | Bo Zhang

INTERVIEW | Bo Zhang

Bo Zhang is an artist, designer, and co-curator, based between Beijing and New York. Creativity and originality are the most solid foundations on which his works can be recognized and loved. He believes a good artwork should be sentimental, have a soul, not a cold entity, but a wonderful interaction with people. He is the founder of Desz office, a young creative studio that mixes art, design, material, and communications.

INTERVIEW | Ruth Egon

INTERVIEW | Ruth Egon

Ruth Egon is a British artist based in Scotland. Uplifting and inspiring people through her bold colour palette, she hopes to engage people in their environment and explores nature through a positive and intriguing lens. Taking reference from abstract artists, her landscapes are a tapestry of beautiful abstract space and symbolic representations. She is fascinated by natural beauty and the human experience.

INTERVIEW | Jongbum Kim

INTERVIEW | Jongbum Kim

Jongbum Kim is a New York-based designer, artist, and illustrator who explores the ideas of gender and multicultural communities through the medium of cloth. With a strong belief in seeing and experiencing the world firsthand, Jongbum’s designs are filled with color and symbolism, both literal and figurative, engaging the viewer and provoking them to respond.

INTERVIEW | Hannah Meng

INTERVIEW | Hannah Meng

Hannah Meng is a New York-based graphic designer, art director, and illustrator with a passion for branding, exhibition design, website design, and motion graphics. Her projects often address complex social issues, amplifying activism on gender equity, climate change, racial justice, LGBT identity, and immigrant rights. She has collaborated with leading cultural institutions, universities, and tech companies.

INTERVIEW | Rio Chen

INTERVIEW | Rio Chen

Rio Chen communicates through objects, graphics, and casual conversation. He focuses on social-political contents that address ethical concerns, SpicyPop culture in contemporary art, and design practice. He advocates the use of local and regional political language in design via organizing the workshop series Satellite Project and the social media platform randr.

INTERVIEW | Suyu Chen

INTERVIEW | Suyu Chen

Suyu Chen is a Chinese contemporary jewelry and craft artist based in Rochester, NY. Her works are inspired by her personal experiences of living in different places and the relationships of her cultural background. Through repetitive experimental explorations of alternative materials and fine metal practices, her works got unique consequences and forms.

INTERVIEW | Yuqian Sun

INTERVIEW | Yuqian Sun

Yuqian Sun is a Chinese AI artist based in London. Inspired by conversations between virtual characters in video games, she produces works that steer with curiosity. She creates art projects based on AI chatbots, focusing on narrative and intimacy in human-AI interaction. Her work varied from 3D renderings and games to generative arts. She's currently a Ph.D. student in Computer Science Research and an AI developer expert.