Ivy Airu Zhang creates expressive, effective visual systems that captures liveliness of brands, collectives and indviduals. She is a recent graduate from Rhode Island School of Design with a BFA in Graphic Design. Born and raised in Guangzhou, China, she recently moved from Providence, RI to Queens, NY.
Open to full-time positions/freelance works at the moment.
Open to full-time positions/freelance works at the moment.
Currently freelancing with EO Space
Previously interned at Siegel+Gale
Previously interned at Siegel+Gale
Ivy Airu Zhang creates expressive, effective visual systems that captures liveliness of brands, collectives and indviduals. She is a recent graduate from Rhode Island School of Design with a BFA in Graphic Design. Born and raised in Guangzhou, China, she recently moved from Providence, RI to Queens, NY.
Open to full-time positions/freelance works at the moment.
airuzhang111@gmail.com
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Open to full-time positions/freelance works at the moment.
airuzhang111@gmail.com
Resume
New Ugly
Experimental Typography, Art Direction, Experience Design, Exhibition Design
Thesis
New Ugly is a movement to honor, celebrate and revive ridiculed typefaces and vernacular design, bringing fresh perspectives into our prestigious design ecosystem. Through visual investigation and experiments with these typefaces that are usually poked fun at, New Ugly manifests potential design literacy and flexibility in these typefaces, behind all of which there is an anonymous graphic or non-graphic “designer.” New Ugly also addresses underlying colonialism and colonizing power behind the ugliness of typefaces like Karate and Papyrus. The ugliness is constructed by appropriating bits and pieces of another exotic culture, the Far East, Mysterious Asia, and the Tropics. New Ugly is a movement but it is also a manifesto and a way of being.
