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Zia is a Graphic Designer based in Chicago, who graduated from the Pratt Institute with a focus on Visual Identity, Editorial, Book Design, and Social Media assets design.
She is also the Co-Founder of Dream Labor Press
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All projects depicted on this website, unless otherwise stated, are the intellectual property of Zia (Zhihan) Qian.
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Prod is all about living with intention. We’re that friend who’s always up to something cool. commetted and spontaneous.
With Prod’s ethical and vintage-inspried clothing, we’re here to help you embrace your true, authentic self effortlessly.
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The exhibition “Something between Rotton and Fresh” explores the liminal spaces between decay and regrowth through contemporary ceramic art. Featured works evoke impermanence and transformation, reminding us that nothing lasts forever.
The overall brand identity explores the themes of "impermanence and transformation" with two typefaces with great stylistic differences. The images, silhouettes, and contours of the ceramics, on the other hand, silently express creativity, fragility,
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This project aims to explore the tendency and underlying logic of meme use by collective narcissism groups. The designer delves into the terrifying potential of meme-based images and the emotional discourse they convey in the political discourse of the social media age. The designers analyze how collective narcissists communicate their ideas through images and emotions rather than through strict content editing, and explore the significant impact of these meme images on nationalist, racist, and authoritarian discourses.
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Inspired by the traditional Chinese copper coin pattern——a patterned totem used to seek wealth, I designed the type from this quadripartite continuous pattern. Combining Eastern and Western superstitions I'm trying to create a font with a certain sense of humor, and, can bring me wealth in a foreign land.
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With typography as a focus point to create a clear and simple logo and identity, the logo was created by combining the initials of the owner's name, "Z", with the Chinese character for "之", for a paper lifestyle brand store.
The brand aims to help energize people's lives with paper-based products, within a reasonable price range.
Collected by Watson Library at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
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This evocative collection explores solitude in New York City through stirring photographs of everyday objects that seem to emit a sense of human loneliness. Capturing moments of quiet isolation tucked within the city's busy veins, the images poetically attach feelings of melancholy and longing to mundane items found throughout the urban landscape. Essays, poems, and conversations provide added layers of insight into the small, poignant details of urban alienation.
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In Lucid, the library of dreams, our mission is to bringing community back together again in this post-epidemic era. We use dreams as a thread, lead people to communicate, explore and learn new artistic ways of expression. We union the people with their all kinds of dreams from any age and any places.
Through material innovation, we are here to help you create packages that suit the world.
Atelier is a agency that focuses on environmentally friendly packaging and behavior guidance.
Not only does Atelier design creative packaging that is good-looking, but also actively developing new materials and structures to meet the growing demand.
During the first summer in New York, the designer visited more than twenty bars with their own characteristics and integrated them into index with a witty graphic language.
The design is divided into two parts, print and web. The physical version and the digital version have different flavors while maintaining a consistent tone.