hi! i’m nicole: a design thinker passionate about illustration, design, and language curation.

welcome to my portfolio : )

CURRENTLY @

The College Hill Independent (The Indy)
Staff Illustrator
Brown-RISD Game Developers
Executive Board + Game Producer x 5

PREV @

Moonton Games 
Merchandise Design (IP) Intern
Zenlayer
Freelance Graphic Designer
Product Design Intern
Design Assistant Intern

OTHER

Literature
Asian American Lit./Translations/Poetry
Home(s)
Los Angeles, Shanghai, Providence

CONTACT @

Linkedin / Instagram / Email: nzhu@risd.eduILLUSTRATION

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

02. “Family Portrait”

03.  “A Heartfelt Letter Will 
Bring You News”

04. Absolut Ad
“Absolut Zhu”
DESIGN

01. Moonton Games
Eruditio Rangers Merch

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


EDITORIAL

01. The Indy Vol. 49, Issue 4
“No Arena in Chinatown”

2. The Indy Vol. 49, Issue 2
“How Snakes Become Monsters”

02. “The Fake Poor Bride” by Xochitl Gonzalez

03. “The Ghost Was the Least of Our Problems” by Allyson McOuatBOOKS

01. Artist Statement
“you don’t understand me, yet i love you”

02. a letter to red and black
 “from black to red.”

ARCHIVE ()

01. 2-Legged Print T-Shirt Sale
2025collection




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


Editorial Illustrations for The Indy:

   1. “The Bravado Issue” (Vol. 49 – i2)

    “No Arena In Chinatown: ‘The fight to preserve
    Philadelphia Chinatown” by Angela Lian

   2. “The Mooncake Issue” (Vol. 49 – i4)
    “How Snakes Become Monsters” by Adia Colvin
Editorial concept for The Atlantic article by Xochitl Gonzalez (2024)


Editorial concept for The New York Times article by Allyson McOuat (2024)


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 )




CONTACT @

Linkedin / Instagram / Email: nzhu@risd.edu
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