Alice [慈安] Fang
Interaction designs. Graphic designs. Codes sometimes. Also calligraphy-s in her free time. Loves calendars, museums, internet archives, sudoku, and collecting books but not always reading them.
This site is always a work in progress.
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]:
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2022
- The Year in Pictures 2022 [3]
- An immersive experience into The Worlds of Octavia Butler [4]
- Typography for School Counselors and the Pandemic [5]
- A photo essay on Olmsted’s Public Parks [6]
- A longform read on the Protectors of Congo’s Peatlands [7] ...
- ... and the Profits from Scotland’s Bogs [8]
- Live animations and reporting on singles figure skating for the Beijing Winter Olympics [9]
- 52 Places for a Changed World [10], the Travel desk’s annual list of places to go 2021
- Live animations on swimming and track for the Tokyo Summer Olympics [11], [12]
- A quietly beautiful series about Chronic Pain [13]
- Representing How It Feels to Be Asian in Today’s America [14]
- Fun video interactions in What Matters in a Name Sign? [15]
Graduated from Carnegie Mellon Univ. with a degree in communication design [16] and a minor in professional writing:
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2021
- Built a nano museum [17] for her senior capstone. 2020
- 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-citizen-science things with Macroinvertebrates.org [21].
- With amazing collaborators and other people’s money*, fabricated zoöid: [22], [23], a fashion-light-art-installation.
- Also designed the show 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.
Collaborates frequently with Jaclyn Saik [26]. Reach out at alicecfang [at] gmail to hear about what they’re up to, or to just chat about bugs, clouds [27], the internet, and/or the upcoming 2s that she’s super excited for: Hades 2, Zelda BOTW 2, Spider-Verse 2.
