Spencer Yujia Yan

Graphic Designer, Illustrator


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Spencer Yujia Yan is a multi-disciplinary graphic designer specializing in typography, Illustration, branding, video and print. My design approach is intended to combine craft and technology to produce an organic and interesting visual presentation.



Spencer Yujia Yan is a skilled graphic designer, video editor, and illustrator with a strong foundation in painting and pencil drawing. Her work is inspired by her intuition, and she brings a unique perspective to each project she undertakes. Spencer holds a dual BFA degree in Graphic Design from the Communication University of China and New York Institute of Technology.  And a MFA degree in Graphic Design from Boston University. Spencer enjoys hands-on practice and crafting, and she brings this approach to her design work.





Remix project / 2021
(In)Visible Cities - I’m the filter
    Invisible Cities is a book that explores imagination and the imaginable through the descriptions of cities by an explorer, Marco Polo. The book is framed as a conversation between the elderly and busy emperor Kublai Khan, who constantly has merchants coming to describe the state of his expanding and vast empire, and Polo. The majority of the book consists of brief prose poems describing 55 fictitious cities that are narrated by Polo, many of which can be read as parables or meditations on culture, language, time, memory, death, or the general nature of human experience.
    This project is about the visualization of cities described in the [Invisible Cities] of Italo Calvino, turning the invisible cities to visible ones using clay as the medium. The projection of pixel shorting video reflects the romance of time changing and passing in these cities in the author's writing. The video is accompanied by readings of the descriptions of each city in the book, and they are overlaid to show a state of knowledge and unknowability of the cities in the book.

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