CLAIRE JEN Graphic Design Portfolio
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Claire Jen 任季如 23 yrs old / Taiwanese ENFJ-A / Libra +886 935-718-433 / +1 (347) 259-8981 happythings169@gmail.com 02
Claire Jen is a Taiwanese graphic designer from Taipei. In 2022, she attained her undergraduate design degree at National Taiwan University of Science and Technology. She completed an exchange student program at Tyler School of Art, Temple University, majoring in graphic design.
Freelancing since 2018, Claire has been dedicated to branding, event visual design, and social media planning. She has worked on multiple corporate identity systems and logo design projects, ranging from clothing brands to media companies, various recital visuals, concert posters, and numerous social media campaigns.
Other than graphic design, Claire is devoted to her own YouTube channel, “ jenjen 剪不完” in which she records her life through vlogs and shares her diverse interests via informational videos.
After school, she decided to go back to her home country and continue her design practices.
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Past Experience
2018/09 | 2022/05
2020/08 | 2021/01
National Taiwan University of Science and Technology Undergraduate Program Design Major - Commercial Design
Salamanca Healthy Graphic Designer In-house design and social media planning.
2021/07 | 2022/02
2022/06 | 2022/09
Grandvity Visual Integration Co., Ltd. Graphic Design Intern In-house design, video editing, and social media planning.
Chihow Co. Select Shop Graphic Designer In-house design, photography, and social media planning.
2022/08 | 2022/12
2022/10
Temple University Tyler School of Art Exchange Student, Global Programs Vlogger Graphic and Interactive Design
Red Dot Winner 2022 Book & Cover Illustration Han the Galaxy Toy Fixer
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Graphic Design Works
Branding
Editorial Print
Event Visual
"Han the Galaxy Toy Fixer" is an educational toy collection consisting of children's books and toy tools. Nowadays, children tend to throw away broken toys easily, therefore we aspire to teach them how to cherish their belongings.
The outer space-themed illustrated books can be read from front to back or the other way around, with two different storylines happening
on the same planet. Kids can understand a toy's making process via special interactive designs fixed on the pages. Through the practices, children may have a better sense of appreciation and we hope that they can apply them to life.
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Concert Visuals
Commissioned work, from 2019 to 2022.
Roche Limit | 2019
In celestial mechanics, the Roche limit, also called Roche radius, is the distance from a celestial body within which a second celestial body, held together only by its own force of gravity, will disintegrate because the first body's tidal forces exceed the second body's gravitational self-attraction. Inside the Roche limit, orbiting material disperses and forms rings, whereas outside the limit material tends to coalesce.
(source: Wikipedia)
This concert visual is based on the Astronomical phenomenon: “Roche Limit,” incorporating the client’s personal emotions towards her twin sister whom passed away, by combining digital art and illustration.
Designed prints include: posters, invitation cards, and booklets.
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Julian Liu Vocal Recital | 20 20
The client requested a clean looking visual design for his annual solo recital, with a hand written logotype and a main color scheme of blue.
Designed prints include: posters, invitation cards, and booklets.
Julian Liu Vocal Recital | 2022
Continuing his previous requests, the client assigned the colors of yellow and a warm scheme for this event visual.
Designed prints include: posters, invitation cards, and booklets.
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心窗 | 2019
A choir with the theme of Taiwanese culture, performing Chinese, Taiwanese, Hakka, and aboriginal folklore. Therefore, choosing elements of traditional window sills and the National flower, Prunus mume, as
the background design.
Designed matters include: poster, staff badges, and ticket.
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Poster Design
In-school team project.
Instatopia
Nowadays, people rely on social media to connect with family and friends. But at the same time, they are consistently trying to show the “best version” of themselves, wich can cause dismorphias of forgetting the importance of living in the real world.
Instatopia is a fictional world, which consists of different kinds of “social media accounts” with unique personalities.
We designed three movie posters that shows different venues of the made up world.
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World Design Sketches
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Character Design
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Infographic
An introduction to Taiwan.
Being an exchange student for one semester, I came to realize how much I love my own country. I have been sharing with my foreign friends about how beautiful Taiwan is ever since.
Therefore, I wanted to introduce this island to foreigners who aren’t familiar with Taiwan in a brief and interesting infographic.
At the same time, I hope my infographic can make Taiwanese people proud, hopefully making them share it with friends.
Sources https://stat.taiwan.net.tw/ https://eng.stat.gov.tw/mp.asp?mp=5 https://www.statista.com/topics/2311/taiwan/ https://eng.taiwan.net.tw/
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Visual Identity Design Branding
Studio Studio
Studio Studio is a fictional design studio that needed a brand identity that could represent their quirkiness and extravagant character. Thus, going for a rainbow color
Printed matters include: business cards, studio cards, envelopes, letter papers, postcards, calendars, identity badges, post-it notes, and stickers.
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Salamanca Healthy
Salamanca Healthy is a restaurant that sells healthy bento-boxes.I was responsible for in-house design and social media planning. I rebranded the restaurant by creating a new
also by coordinating social media designs and copywriting.
Designed prints include: posters, invitation cards, and booklets.
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Logofolio
Logos and logotypes, from 2019 to 2022.
Commissioned Work
Branding Student Projects
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Branding Student Projects
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Book and magazine cover designs Book Design
Typrism
Designing seven covers for a fictional magazine called Typrism, featuring seven designers, while only using the frutiger font.
Featured designers: Alexey Brodovitch, David Carson, Herbert Bayer, Saul Bass, Jan Tschichold, Josef Muller-Brockmann, Tadanori Yokoo.
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Book Cover Design
Two editions of book covers were designed for the famous Japanese design book: デザインの手がかり, which translates to “Handmaking in
Design”, as a in-class project.
To keep it simple, I kept the color scheme on the three primary colors.
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What About David Carson
This book was composed by articles about the famous designer, David Carson, edits and layouts were designed by me
For the most part of it, the book had a theme of the ocean and blue with coral pink as a compliment color.
The context was mostly about David Carson’s experience and works in all periods of time.
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Other Works
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Illustration
Social Media 3D Design
Social Media Design
Contract Work for Chihow.Co 2022/06-09
Chihow.Co is a clothing select shop that has its own online market and Instagram account, which requires many templates for products and advertisement visual designs.
I was responsible for rebranding, product photography and photo editing in the beginning, and social media planning continuously.
The logo and visual system was designed at the beginning of the contract, which made fundaments for the brand to use in the future.
My works included special events visuals and monthly promotion visuals for the brand. Instagram posts and Shopee product informational banners were a big part of the job, setting up templates and different style visuals was the main goal.
The reopening visual was based on the brand’s favorite sport, basketball. Using a sun to imply a new era for the clothing brand when they reopened in the summer of 2022.
Most Instagram posts were designed with clear information and a clean design to convey the message properly.
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senses blue wide stripes shirt
Kenlu Net is a is a sneakers news/ forum website, that focuses on sharing various brands of sneakers.
For this blog they introduced how you can bring multiple sneakers while traveling, emphasizing on how to pack and the outfit inspirations.
Mizuno
Net ｜旅行不行少雙鞋 2022/10
x Kenlu
Producer | 周承泰
Designer | Claire Jen Photographer | Claire Jen
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I have been managing a Youtube channel called “jenjen 剪不完“ since 2020. The content is mostly focused on travel and daily vlogs or informational videos upon new things I’m trying in life.
For example, “How I Applied for an Exchange Program,” “Unboxing an iPhone 13 pro,” “Best Makeup Products I Recommend,” “First Time in NYC,” ”Thrift Haul.” etc.
Other than writing scripts, filming, and editing, designing thumbnails is the most interesting part of this interest of mine.
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Youtube Thumbnails
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3D Modeling
With Blender 3D
Still Here Cafe Grand Opening Motion Poster
This poster’s theme was inspired by @stillherestilllife. I adore the still life photos they post each week which they challenge people to create a version of it.
This poster is for a fictional event that I made up. I pretended that there was a new cafe opening, which is “Still Here Cafe.” The elements in the animation are inspired from #stillherestilllifeweek51.
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Instatopia
With the same topic as previously mentioned in my poster design works, this 3D model was an extension of the fictional world.
This was a group project where me and my partner both modeled a “room” with a specific topic: an influencer’s room and a foodie’s room.
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YOU SHOULDN’T BE EMBARRASSED ABOUT BEING SAD. IT’S OKAY TO NOT BE OKAY.
Are You Okay?
This orange is a depiction of all of those who have no way of releasing bad moods and negative thoughts.
But bear in mind, that "It's ok to not be okay." and I hope that someday you can find an emotional output that suits you.
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Illustrations
Personal
Projects and In-Class
Editorials on Procreate
Digital illustrations have been one of my biggest hobbies since college. Most of my works have specific topics or are commissioned illustrations.
Color arrangement is my biggest strength when it comes to illustrations.
The painting on the right had been printed out as a representative for the GAID club at Tyler School of Art, Temple University, to be sold at the on campus art market.
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Children’s book cover redesign.Editorial for an article about sleep. Sequence of Aesop’s Fables.Single EP song cover redsign.
“The Cypren” on the left has the topic of mythical beasts. I made up a beast that is called a Cypren. Cyprens are creatures that feed on greedy, disrespectful, patriarchal men.
Their antlers are for fighting with other cyprens, which the winner gets to eat the prey. Cyprens normally live in solitary.
Commissioned works are mostly portraits for personal uses. For example, the one on the top left on this page.
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That’s about it. Thanks for Reading.
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