Alice [慈安] Fang

Interaction designs. Graphic designs. Codes sometimes. Loves calendars, museums, internet archives, sudoku, and collecting books but not always reading them.

This site is always a work in progress.

Currently, a graphics/multimedia editor on the digital news design team [1] at The New York Times. She designs, art directs, edits, and develops visual stories on the web [2]:

• Analyzing the use of Asian languages in film and television [3]
• Looking at people looking at the Total Eclipse [4]
• A Love Letter to Hip-Hop [5] by Mahogany L. Browne, composed entirely of lyrics
• A deep-dive into what it’s like to Be Thirteen [6]
• Where We Are [7], a series about young people coming of age and the spaces where they create community
• A list of The 100 Best Restaurants in New York City in 2023 [8], and 2024 [9]
• A fun and playful collaboration with Schoooool [10] on Word Etymology [11] for the Scripp’s Spelling Bee
• A longform read on how Africa’s youth boom [12] is changing the continent, and beyond
• An immersive experience into The Worlds of Octavia Butler [13]
• A photo essay on Olmsted’s Public Parks [14]
• Live animations and reporting on singles figure skating for the Beijing Winter Olympics [15]
• Live animations on swimming and track for the Tokyo Summer Olympics [16], [17]

Graduated from Carnegie Mellon Univ. [18], and also:

• Built a nano museum [19]
• Made a book [20] and website [21] about critical issues in design, using NLTK to parse 2700+ written responses from the 2019 AIGA Design Census
• Designed a mobile field guide app [22] for insect identification, and other digi-citizen-science things with Macroinvertebrates.org [23]
• With amazing collaborators and someone else’s money*, fabricated zoöid: [24], [25], a fashion-light-art-installation

Sometimes she works on other things:

• Custom CSS for the bestie’s e-commerce site, ninatang [dot] com [27]
• The beginnings of a studio with Jac Saik [28] (they promise to actually do something someday)

Reach out at alicecfang [at] gmail [dot] com to chat about bugs, clouds [29], or the internet.