Neurobiologist-turned designer driven by sense-making, systems thinking, and storytelling. Seeking full-time interaction, experience, or product design roles.
Work spans the digital and physical, including functional user interfaces, immersive experiences, research, and creative strategy.
Design Theory
Interaction Design
Illustration
Layout Design
Fall 2021
Illustrator
Fresco
Photoshop
Procreate
We were tasked with creating a highly visual zine that communicates our perspective on the design mind- what it is, how it works, and why it’s worth thinking about.
To properly showcase my perspective on the design mind, I first reviewed my notes from the past semester and beyond, marking down ideas of interest and re-visiting connections that had been documented previously. From this round of searching, I began mapping out relationships and potential directions the zine could go in, creating paper prototypes to inform and guide concept exploration.
Culmination of influences and ideas from the semester + beyond–
The zine is printed and constructed in a specific way, such that the reader is required to spend time with it, unfolding each "leaf" to reveal a three-dimensional sculpture. To view the majority of the content, readers are invited to manipulate the zine through space, thereby accessing additional visual and written content hidden within the "negative space" of the activated zine.
Each spread was planned carefully to align and flow with its adjacent leaves, taking into consideration any areas that would be cut out and hand finished, and variations in reading orientation.
Original illustrations were done by hand in Adobe Fresco and Procreate, then transferred to Photoshop and Illustrator for post-processing and final compositions.
Ann Li 2020
