Alice [Cian] Fang

A graphics/multimedia editor with Special Projects at The New York Times [3].

Previously the digital news design fellow [4], she designs, art directs, and develops interactives, features and more to tell visual stories:

• Led the creative direction, interaction design, and development for 52 Places for a Changed World [5], the Travel desk’s annual list of places to go.
• Edited and designed a photo essay about Olmsted's Public Parks [6].
• Reported on the Tokyo and Beijing Olympics, covering swimming, running and figure skating, and produced data-driven animations [7] live(!) for live blogs [8], social media [9], and homepage.
• Produced photo-driven longform stories about the Protectors of Congo’s Peatlands [10] ...
• ... and the Profits from Scotland's Bogs [11].
• Designed charming video interactions in What Matters in a Name Sign? [12].
• Revealed a range of Asian American voices in How It Feels to Be Asian in Today’s America [13].
• Designed a series about Chronic Pain [14], [15], [16] to be quietly beautiful.
• And designed typography for School Counselors and the Pandemic [17]

Graduated from Carnegie Mellon Univ. with a degree in communication design and a minor in professional writing:

• Created a book [18] and website [19] about critical issues in design by parsing and analyzing 2700+ written responses from the 2019 AIGA Design Census.
• Designed a mobile field guide app [20] for insect identification, and other digi-tech-citizen-science things with Macroinvertebrates.org [21].
• Working with amazing collaborators and using other people’s money*, built a nano museum [22] for her senior capstone, and fabricated a fashion-light-art-installation named zoöid [23].
• Also designed the booklet [24] for Lunar Gala: Yesterday, the fashion show that zoöid closed as the finale in February 2020, right before the onset of the pandemic in the U.S.