Alice [慈安] Fang

Interaction designs. Graphic designs. Codes sometimes. Loves calendars, museums, internet archives, sudoku, and collecting books but not always reading them.

This site is always a work in progress.

Currently, a graphics/multimedia editor on the digital news design team [1] at The New York Times. She designs, art directs, produces and develops visual stories on the web [2]:

• A deep-dive [3] in what it’s like to be 13 today
• A Love Letter to Hip-Hop [4] by Mahogany L. Browne, composed entirely of lyrics
• Where We Are [5], a series about young people coming of age and the spaces where they create community
• A list of The 100 Best Restaurants in New York City [6]
• A fun and playful collaboration with Schoooool [7] on Word Etymology [8] for the Scripp’s Spelling Bee
• An immersive experience into The Worlds of Octavia Butler [9]
• A photo essay on Olmsted’s Public Parks [10]
• A longform read on the Protectors of Congo’s Peatlands [11]
• Live animations and reporting on singles figure skating for the Beijing Winter Olympics [12]
• Live animations on swimming and track for the Tokyo Summer Olympics [13], [14]

Graduated from Carnegie Mellon Univ. [15], and also:

• Built a nano museum [16]
• Made a book [17] and website [18] about critical issues in design, using NLTK to parse 2700+ written responses from the 2019 AIGA Design Census
• Designed a mobile field guide app [19] for insect identification, and other digi-citizen-science things with Macroinvertebrates.org [20]
• With amazing collaborators and someone else’s money*, fabricated zoöid: [21], [22], a fashion-light-art-installation

Sometimes she works on other things:

• Custom CSS for the bestie’s e-commerce site, ninatang [dot] com [24]
• The beginnings of a studio with Jac Saik [25] (they promise to actually do something someday)

Reach out at alice.fang [at] nytimes [dot] com or alicecfang [at] gmail to chat about bugs, clouds [26], or the internet.