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Currently at Order. Reach out to me via @joyceho.x or email. At the moment, I see myself as a graphic designer interested in creating research and concept-driven systems that balance design with art. Click here to learn more.

Web Motion Posters Illustration
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New York Times 2024–2025
Digital News Design Fellowship
(Interactive Design) (Front End Development)

Click here for full archive. Displayed projects include Travel’s annual 52 places list, animation and rendering for the book review’s starterpacks, National’s piece on what people took with them during the Palisades fire evacuation, and a 20th year anniversay for the horror movie Saw.

Movie Night Posters
(Custom lettering) (Illustration) (3D rendering)

Some favorite films that I’ve paired up w booze... mostly custom lettered type paired with HAL Timezone with the exception of Playtime using Styro from ITF and The Fall customizing Bild by DJR.

Knoll Workplace Research Library
2023
(Branding) (3D animation)

Speculative rebranding for Knoll Workplace Research Library with the concept of sorted research files. It’s a paper clip, but more importantly, it clips to Knoll.

RISD 2024 Yearbook
Design Guild
(Publication) (Production) (Photography) (Hand Lettering)

This RISD yearbook is just like any other, except this time, everyone’s famous! With every year featuring a different theme and design, our design team this year was on the move as paparazzi—capturing glimpses of who and where the graduating class will be in 2034.

HAWT Chocolatier
2023—
(Branding) (Strategy + Copywriting)

Identity for the local Rhode Island chocolatier based on seeing chocolate as quality time spent with others. With boxes of different assortments, each strike a specific number of the clock implying a specific moment in time to share with parties of 1, 4, 8, or 12.

THE ROCK BOOK(s)
2022
(Everything)

What is a rock? Two books answer the question differently. While one offers the actual rock, the other shapes rock in the context of a diamond with fabricated text and images.

CURRENTLY ON VIEW
2024
(RISD BFA Thesis)

An extension of my interest in media studies with the Rock Books, my thesis goes forward building 5 versions of the same story to critique the dilemma of perfect design. It’s an alluded look at the history of mechanisms designers have used to represent information, but also a starting point on how designers go forward if we can’t reach perfection.

A Typographic Quest
2023
(Publication)

An editorial curation of 9 maps featuring El Lissitzky’s 2 essays “Topography of Typography” (1923) and “Typographical Facts” (1925).

NCSS Fall Lecture Series
2024
(System) (Hand Lettering)

Poster series designed around the intersection of design and science. How lines and grids transform into organic forms are informed by each lecturer's own bio-art design practice.

Cyborg Wear
2023
(Artist Book) (Illustration)
(Front end development)

An embodiment of marks left on my skin and identity after being in conversation with 4 individuals who shared a pivotal experience navigating between life and death. Skin uv printed on mylar and branded as 4 different versions of myself, the printed matter offers an accompanied mobile reader that maps out the conversation into hyperlinked illustrations.

TULOU
2023
(Branding)

Speculative branding for UNESCO World Heritage Site: Fujian Tulou. Full brand system developed from the colors, structure, and texture of these earthen buildings. Collateral publication includes 2 books with potentially the longest dust jacket you’ve ever seen...

Hezin O Interview
2023
(Editorial)

Spreads for an interview with South Korean graphic designer Hezin O! Interviewd together with Helen Peng.

CAN YANG Interview
2023
(Editorial)

Spreads for an interview with graphic designer Can Yang (杨灿) in mid-March on design practice and cultural influences. Interviewed together with Helen Peng.