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.

