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, and is currently based in NYC.
Open to full-time positions/freelance works at the moment.
Previously @ EO Space, Siegel+Gale
Previously @ EO Space, 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.
Currently open to full-time positions/freelance works at the moment.
Previously @ EO Space, Siegel+Gale
airuzhang111@gmail.com
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Currently open to full-time positions/freelance works at the moment.
Previously @ EO Space, Siegel+Gale
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.
Degree Thesis at Rhode Island School of Design
Thesis Instructor: Lucinda Hitchcock
Thesis Instructor: Lucinda Hitchcock
