nicole zhu's portfolio

hi i’m nicole zhu
welcome to my portfolio!

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Email: neecolezhu@gmail.com

CURRENTLY
SVA
MFA Design

EXHIBITION @
RISD Museum “Liz Collins: Motherlode”
Homecoming section
Tone in Tongue by Radical Characters

PREVIOUSLY
INTERN @
Moonton Games
Merchandise Design (IP) Intern
Zenlayer

INSTALLATION(S)

01. ghost country + a heart-warming letter
will bring you news

02. To Love Is to Resist

ILLUSTRATION

01. Book Cover
A Field Guide to Getting Lost
by Rebecca Solnit

02. “Family Portrait”

03. “Untitled”

04. Absolut Ad
“Absolut Zhu”

DESIGN

01. Moonton Games
Eruditio Rangers Merch

02. UAL BA (Hons) GD
“AAa!” Publication

BOOKS

01. Artist Statement

02. a love letter to red and black

ghost country (bed sheet)
Inspired by Maxine Hong Kingston’s imagination of the USA “ghost country” in The Woman Warrior.

a heartfelt letter will bring you news (pillow)
My dad's letter saved as a dreamscape; your sacrifices and wisdom are what fuel my dreams.

2022-24

T-Shirt Design Process

Eruditio Rangers
Merch

Collection of team T-Shirt and sticker pack for new Mobile Legends: “Bang Bang” (MLBB) characters

2023

Font Design Process

Typography and Icon Design

“AAa! – Asian American affects Make Me Scream”

A publication dedicated to voicing the Asian American affect – “affect” in reference to affect theory demonstrated in Sara Ahmed’s The Cultural Politics of Emotion. In “AAa!” Asian Americans are defined to be individuals that are ethnically Asian, but nationally American: an identity that often causes cognitive dissonance.

2024

Front of Publication

Back of Publication

Subscription Slip

Process Book Flip-Through

Artist Statement

Is a chapbook exploring the multiplicity of identity, family, and home. It leverages unconventional poetry and material, to portray the ambiguity of diasporic identities and address affect. Artist Statement encourages readers to not only perceive the trans-parent, but also appreciate the un-understandable.

2024

a love letter to black and red

A collection of poetry, embroidery, paintings, cyanotype, and other multi-media experimentation.

2023

“缘” a guide to the red string of fate

“growing up, my mother
had red hair. when i grew up,
i dyed from my hair from
black to red.”

“美” - beautiful
“女” - women

( “美
国” - usa )

Linkedin / Instagram / Email: neecolezhu@gmail.com