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.
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]:
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2023
- Where We Are [3], 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 [4] 2022
- An immersive experience into The Worlds of Octavia Butler [5]
- A photo essay on Olmsted’s Public Parks [6]
- A longform read on the Protectors of Congo’s Peatlands [7]
- Live animations and reporting on singles figure skating for the Beijing Winter Olympics [8] 2021
- Live animations on swimming and track for the Tokyo Summer Olympics [9], [10]
- Fun video interactions in What Matters in a Name Sign? [11]
Graduated from Carnegie Mellon Univ. with a degree in communication design [12] and a minor in professional writing:
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2021
- Built a nano museum [13] for her senior capstone 2020
- Made a book [14] and website [15] about critical issues in design, using NLTK to parse 2700+ written responses from the 2019 AIGA Design Census
- Designed a mobile field guide app [16] for insect identification, and other digi-citizen-science things with Macroinvertebrates.org [17]
- With amazing collaborators and someone else’s money*, fabricated zoöid: [18], [19], a fashion-light-art-installation
Sometimes she works on other things:
- Custom CSS for the bestie’s e-commerce site, ninatang [dot] com [21]
- The beginnings of a studio with Jac Saik [22] (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 [23], the internet, and/or the upcoming 2s that she’s super excited for: Hades 2, Zelda 2, Spider-Verse 2.

