TONIA YUQI ZHANG
张雨琪
InfoLab
Designer. Type-focused system enthusiast.
Currently available.
⇢ toniazhang.work@gmail.com
Experience: Apple, NBA2K, Work-Order.
Awards: Communication Arts Typography 2026, Graphic Design USA 62nd, Graphis, Creative Quaterly.
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Apple Fall 2025 Event Identity
Apple Fall 2024 Audio Lineup
Apple Ginza Opening Campaign
Unilingua (WIP)
Rodion Text (WIP)
@ Tonia Yuqi Zhang | 2021-2026
Welcome to my Visual Lab – One Offs, experiments, pecyclables, process sketches, as well as unfinished work can find a new life here. Check back on new updates soon.
Brian Oakes Artist Talk Poster, Fall 2024
Graphis Poster Awards 2026, Gold
Graphic Design USA 62nd, Award of Excellence
2-Color Riso Poster, Fall 2024
This poster was made to explore the essence of the medium of Riso – its fluorescent colors, saturated gradients, and uncontrollable overlabs and gaps that add to the charm.
Brain Dead, Poster, Fall 2025
Inspired by the overdose of social media.
Brian Oakes Artist Talk Horizontal Poster, Fall 2024
A motion sketch for RISD MFA Biennial 2025
The motion expresses the main idea of the identity – to show irrelevant info (generic words like “Title” or “Date”) large, and actually important information in the footnotes. Made in Spring 2025.
Ampersand, from Biomorphic Typography Workshop, Fall 2024.
This design started from the making of hand-drawn illustrations of sea creatures found in the RISD Nature Lab. Made in blender, the letterform applies natural elements like spikes,sharp spines, toxic stings, and hard, calcified shells to human language.
Workshop by Laura Maria González.
Course taught by Anastasiia Raina.
Ampersand (Animated), from Biomorphic Typography Workshop, Fall 2024Another motion sketch for RISD MFA Biennial. Spring 2025.A layout study for New England Air Museum, focusing on the logo and typeface inspired by airplane fins, Fall 2025“V”, from Biomorphic Typography Workshop, Fall 2024.
Workshop by Laura Maria González.
Course taught by Anastasiia Raina.A layout study for New England Air Museum, focusing on the logo and typeface inspired by airplane fins, Fall 2025Logo for Checkdate, a dating app startup that matches users with similar social circles and interests. It is a heart, at the foundation of which lies a checkmark.Morphogene, A variable font with 3 variable Axes. Made in Fall 2025. Professor: Kelsey Elder.App interface for Checkdate, a dating app startup that matches users with similar social circles and interests.Loading Loading, a collaborative installation project with Chi Hao Chang.
It is an installation with videos projected on the 24 panels
on both side of the wooden structure. The proposed
duration of the video loop is 24 hours, making the piece
a forever loading block, but in consideration of the viewers during the crit, the piece was shortened to 24 minutes. On one side, there
is a stream of loading icons and loading graphics (like gradients that you see above). On the other side, there is
video footage of liminal spaces in Providence – places of
waiting and passing. The piece grounds both physical and
digial experiences of waiting and asks the viewer to reconsider
habits of avoiding white space in both physical
and digital environments.
This piece has sound designed in
The sound is inspired by Ryoji Ikeda and Alva Noto’s
Live 2002 performance. The physical structure takes
inspiration from Martin Fletchers work.
4-Color Riso Calendar, Fall 2024
During this time, I was working as a Resident Assistent. For the new year of 2025, I made a gift for my residential community. The type is color coded by seasons, and the illustrations show the feelings that the student body go through – such as the excitement of graduation in May, or the energy of starting strong in in September.
Posters for the Art & Art History Program at New York University Abu Dhabi. Made in Fall 2022.Posters for the Art & Art History Program at New York University Abu Dhabi. Made in Fall 2022.A birthday illustration for my past coworker Antoine, showing the funny memory when a pigeon flew in during a zoom meeting and landed on his laptop. A fun project done while interning at Work-Order. Made in summer 2022.
I designed the posters for the Art & Art History Program Open House Event at NYU Abu Dhabi, advertising the different majors and tracks that students can take, treating years of study as building blocks. The posters have since then been re-used multiple times. Made in Fall 2022.Volume-1 is a student-run magazine at RISD. I designed this Fall 2024 issue with the talented Ollantay Avila. The theme is inspired by vulnerability, visualized using the graphic of bubbles.
Fall 2024
Volume-1 is a student-run magazine at RISD. I designed this Fall 2024 issue with the talented Ollantay Avila. The theme is inspired by vulnerability, visualized using the graphic of bubbles. Made in Fall 2024.
My friend asked me to design a brand identity for his startup, called Pieonair. I was suprised that this was an actual name someone would use for a startup, but was happy for this fun design opportunity. Made in 2020.MONOLIT, a conceptual branding for a Moscow-based Museum of Brutalist Art and Achitecture. Made in 2020, it was my first brand identity project.Brace. Poster, 2026. Made with Hyomin Kim.MONOLIT exhibition posters. Made in 2020.A quick motion piece on the topic of “quickness,” from Italo Calvino’s book. For Grad Type 3 taught by Doug Scott.Open Grid is a WIP project, part of my RISD MFA Thesis. It’s a typeface generator based on a flexible draggable grid. Made in Winter 2026.Open Grid is a WIP project, part of my RISD MFA Thesis. It’s a typeface generator based on a flexible draggable grid. Made in Winter 2026.A random piece of poetic road signage, inspired by the past pace of work in a designer’s life and my journey of learning how to drive. This poetic road sign is an invitation to slow down to find meaning in our neverending rush of life tasks. I also like the idea of designing interventions to ordinary infrastructural artifacts. Made in Spring 2025.
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