Selected Work 2020
Qixin Zhang Graphic Design Portfolio qzhang18@pratt.edu
Hello!
Qixin Zhang is a New York-based graphic designer. She is currently studying Digital Design, where she will obtain her Bachelor of Arts degree at The City College of New York. At The City College of New York, Qixin was exposed to the Electronic Design and Multimedia (EDM) Program. She found herself obsessed with the world of graphic design, typography, and photography, and she switched her major from Fine Art to Digital Design. As a graphic designer, Qixin loves bold, simplistic, and clean designs. Danshari (断舍离) is her favorite book, driven by a minimalist lifestyle concept, which fits her lifestyle goals and design eye. Qixin feels: when we are able to let go things that we don’t need, then we understand what we truly need…it is a process of truly understanding ourselves. When Qixin is not designing, she enjoys reading interior design magazines and contemplating graduate school. She believes design to be borderless, an influence over our lives, and the endless source for her education.
PROJECT 01 ................................... Atypl Warsaw Conference Book 02 ....................................... Covernant House Rebranding 03 ........................................ The Watersport Motion Book 04 ...............................................Save The Bees Brouchure 05 .......................................A Narrative Book for The Aris 06 ......................................................... Non-GMOs Poster 07 ........................................ Anti- Social Media Campaign
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ATypl Warsaw Conference Booklets This is a Conference booklets design for the 2016 AtypI conference in Warsaw, Poland. Red is chosen as the theme color. It is inspired by the Polish Brick Gothic architectures in Warsaw. Schedule of each day is design as a 4 panel accordion fold brochure, with an envelope to hold them together. Participants can bring schedule day by day or together as they wish. All the workshops are organizead by time, so they can be easily to check.
Covenant House Rebranding This is a rebranding project of the nonprofit organization, Covenant House. The organize provides save places and care for homeless youth. The umbrella symbolizes how they are protecting youth from potential danger. Blue is chosen as the theme color for its calm and reliable feel. Cups, t-shirts, and pen are design using in charity events specially.
Watersports Motion Book In this book, the motions of 7 different water sports are captured exclusively with typeface characters. These symbols, joined together randomly, vividly show the excitement and movement of these sports. You can almost smell the salt air and feel the splash of the waves throughout the book.
Save the Bees Brouchure This is a brochure design promoting saving the honey bees, including tickets for the greenmarket event. The brochure includes explanation of how honey bees are important to us, why we are losing them, and how we can help to save them. There are Call-to-Actions for donation. At the end, there is a pocket. Inside, there is the event ticket and a raffle ticket.
Non-GMOs Poster This is a poster design for the NonGMOs Project organization. Genetically modified organisms (GMOs). A growing body of evidence connects GMOs with health problems, environmental damage, and violation of farmers’ and consumers’ rights. The idea of using rice to make the word “aware” is to call people to watch out what they eat.
Anti-Social Media Campaign This is a anti-social media campaign design that targeted the youths. Promoting health habits ideas and explains how social media could hazard to their health.
"It was a way for me not to think about classes and college, not to have to talk to people." — Jake, an anxiety victim, talking about his life back to high school
SIGN IN TO REAL LIFE Take A Social Media Break Research shows an increase in major depressive episodes from 8.7% in 2005 to 11.3% in 2014 in adolescents, and from 8.8% to 9.6% in young adults. Depression is on the rise among teens, the question we need to ask ourselves is how much does technology and social media contribute to it? Adolescent mental health experts indicates that social media is promoting anxiety and lowering self-esteem among teenagers and adolescents. Many of them are unable to perform basic tasks. Fortunately, parent can help teens to aviold getting into the situation by develop teens health habits. Sports are a great way for teens to be healthy, learn new skills and develop friendships with their peers. They learn how to teamwork, develop self-confidence, and self-discipline. These are important skills needed to succeed in real life. Which are also the skills they can't learn in social media.
SIGN IN TO REAL LIFE "It was a way for me not to think about classes and college, not to have to talk to people." — Jake, an anxiety victim, talking about his life back to high school
Disconnect to Connect Communication in social media will not beneficial you as real life communications. In fact, they are unconsciously harming your mental health. Teens who spend more time on social media feel more social isolated and missing out then those don't. Adolescent mental health experts indicated social media is promoting anxiety and lowering self-esteem among teenagers and adolescents. Teens are growing up with less confident talking with people, because they do most of their communication while looking at the screen. That explains what do they mean when they say calling someone on phones is "too intense." So missed out this time, start switching your social life from social media back to real life, and be confident in real life!
The Narrative Book For The Artists This is a narrative book. It is about mental conflicts of the two artists, James Baldwin and Oscar Wilde. I combined an essay, by James Baldwin’s with the philosophical novel, A Picture of Dorian Gray, by Oscar Wilde. On each spread, the at the left side is quote pulls from Baldwin’s essay; at the right side is quotes from Wilde’s book. There is one topic of each spread. Two different ideas are joined together creating conflicts or harmony.
Qixin Z qixin923@gmail.com