Shan X. Liao is a visual designer, agency veteran, image maker, and poet. She is based in Brooklyn, New York.
廖玄林，位于纽约布鲁克林区，是一名高级平面设计师、制作总监。
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廖玄林，位于纽约布鲁克林区，是一名高级平面设计师、制作总监。
CATALOGUE
HomeAbout
Visual design
Commercial
Analog imaging
Writing
Mapping
GenAI
Visual design
Sight & Sound
To combine visual art with music is a labor of love that I am exceptionally proud of. I curate a few playlists on Spotify, spanning industrial techno, contemporary classical, hardcore, ambient, to name a few genres, and most if not all feature my original playlist covers.
I invite the curious to drop in and tune out with me.
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Strawberry Glass
03.2024 — 08.2024
Debuting at TV Eye in Queens in early 2024, Strawberry Glass is an NYC heavy music trio composed of Princess Jezebel (guitar), Aksido (bass & vocals), and reacheereach (drums).
Following their debut, Strawberry Glass released their first EP, with their first studio single, Spider, on A-side, and live at TV Eye on the other.
Later in August, to celebrate Aksido’s birthday, Strawberry Glass headlined at Bushwick’s Wonderville with Boston post-indie surf band Orca Bones.
Meet me at Trans-Pecos
September 2023
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/imagine in the style of william eggleston, western texas desert, trans pecos, film grain, ektachrome, vintage 1960s photography, analog photography, 35mm film
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/imagine a field of joshua trees in the foreground, in the style of william eggleston, analog photography, high nevada desert, tonopah, mountain range in the background, southwestern gothic, dawn, early morning, the sky is darkest right before dawn, film grain, 35mm film
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Research Era
May 2023
/imagine in the style of a 1960s historical photo, a full body portrait of a chinese woman in lab robes at work at NASA, scientist, worker, probe, engineer, lander, spacecraft, analog photography, 35mm, film grain --ar 4:5
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Riot Grrrl Lyric Posters
February 2023
One of my favorite genres of punk rock is the riot grrrl movement of the early 90s.
I pay homage to some of my favorite songs by Bratmobile, Le Tigre, Priests, Sextile, and others with a series of lyric posters with paired with original photography.
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A poster for Qingming Festival
April 2022
Every year in April, Chinese diaspora celebrate the coming of spring by honoring their ancestors with tombsweeping rituals.
To reconcile an otherwise complicated relationship with learned customs and obligations, I created this design to recognize the importance of this day and to comfort myself for choosing to not participate.
This place does not exist
March 2022
Dare
March 2022
Letters for Black Lives, Mandarin
June 2020
Translation of the “Letters for Black Lives” in traditional Chinese and transcription in Standard Mandarin Pinyin
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A new flag for San Francisco
May 2019
In my redesign of the flag of San Francisco, a stylized phoenix rises from a ring of fire in front of a field of gold.
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