About Fiona

Graphic

  1. Own Magazine
  2. Own Magazine Digital Website
  3. 3daysofdesign Campaign
  4. Island Routine
  5. The Shape of Jazz
  6. The Years I Kept in My Camera (Photobook)
  7. Second Skin
  8. “OPTING OUT”-Manifesto
  9. History of New York Subway


Photography


  1. BETWEEN LOOKS
  2. Tragedy as Daily Adaption(collab)
  3. Own Magazine photoshoot
  4. NYFW25
  5. NYFW24
  6. Out of Space



Education
I-Shou International School
2019-2023

Pasons The School of Design - The New School
Major: Communication Design
Minor: Photography
2023- 2027
Work Experience
Graphic Design Internship
Kiki de Montparnasse
Fall 2026

NYFW Influence Photographer
For Celina Gao (@ceiyun), New York Fashion Week 
Spring 2025

NYFW Backstage Photographer
RunWAY 7
Spring 2024

Still Photographer & Makeup Assistant,
Global Internship: Team Taiwan at the Paris Olympics
2024

Music Video Behind-the-scenes Photographer
Jp Huang Studio
2024

Lead Exhibition Curator, Visual Art Exhibition of Southern Taiwan
2023

Head of design
MODEL UNITED NATIONS (SOUTHERN TAIWAN)
2022

Freelance Designer
2018-2019
Skills
Adobe InDesign
Adobe Photoshop
Adobe Lightroom
Adobe Illustrator
Canva
Figma
HTML
CSS
JavaScript
Language
English (Proficient)
Japanese (Conversational)
Mandarin Chinese (Native)
Certificate





Fiona Chen

Parsons School of Design - Communication Design BFA & Photography


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OWN MagazineDEC 2025
Core 3 Design Studio
Editorial / Photography



OWN Magazine is a self-initiated editorial project that explores emotion as a visual language. The project brings together photography, interviews, and graphic design to document how creatives translate personal experiences into visual expression. Each issue functions as both a publication and an archive, collecting moments, voices, and images that reflect identity, vulnerability, and creative process. Through a carefully constructed visual system, the magazine emphasizes pacing, tone, and narrative flow, allowing emotion to guide both content and design decisions.

Issue 01, Visualized the Feeling, focuses on how individuals internalize and express emotion through creative practice. The issue features a series of interviews and visual narratives that highlight personal processes, spaces, and objects, emphasizing emotion as something that can be seen, shaped, and designed. Rather than presenting emotion as abstract, the issue treats it as material—translated through imagery, typography, and editorial structure.

The ongoing mission of OWN Magazine is to build a growing archive of emotional perspectives from creatives across disciplines. By combining editorial design with personal storytelling, the magazine aims to create space for slow observation, honesty, and reflection. OWN exists as both a printed publication and an evolving platform, documenting how emotion, identity, and creativity intersect over time.
OWN Magazine WebsiteDEC 2025
Core 3 Design Studio
Editorial / Photography



3daysofdesign Campaign OCT 2025
Core 2 Typography
Graphic


Core 2 Typography Social Campaign Mockups is a typography-led campaign developed for 3daysofdesign, a furniture-focused design exhibition. The project explores how type, layout, and visual hierarchy can communicate the values of contemporary furniture design. Using social media for digital platforms. In the mockups, the campaign highlights clarity, rhythm, and narrative, turning the exhibition concept into a cohesive visual system
Island Routine MAY 2025
Core 2 Typography
Editorial  / Typography



Island Routine — A Journal About Formosa is a typographic exploration of daily life in Taiwan, blending personal observation with visual rhythm. The book captures fragments of ordinary routines such as sounds, objects, meals, and everyday moments that quietly define the island’s identity. By focusing on the familiar rather than the monumental, the project treats daily life as an archive of cultural experience.

Through careful use of typography, image placement, and pacing, the book translates the pulse of Formosa into a visual journal that feels both intimate and collective. Layout and sequencing mirror repetition and flow, allowing readers to move through the book in a way that echoes the routine itself. The design emphasizes structure and rhythm, reflecting how habits shape perception over time.

At its core, the project examines how everyday practices carry memory and emotional weight. Island Routine positions routine as a bridge between personal experience and shared culture, revealing how small, repeated actions form a lasting connection to place.
The Shape of Jazz
OCT 2025
Book as ArchiveEditorial / Photography


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The Shape of Jazz is a visual book that explores jazz through archival imagery and historical narrative. Drawing from old image archives, the project traces the development of jazz as both a musical form and a cultural movement. Through photography and graphic design, the book connects sound, history, and visual memory, treating jazz as an evolving language shaped by time, place, and people.

The project introduces key moments in jazz history alongside iconic performers, using image sequencing and layout to build rhythm and context. Archival photographs function not only as documentation but as emotional entry points that capture performance, atmosphere, and presence. Typography and composition guide the reader through historical layers, allowing information and imagery to coexist with clarity and flow.

At its core, The Shape of Jazz positions the book as both an archive and an interpretation. By recontextualizing historical images and narratives through contemporary design, the project reflects on how jazz continues to influence visual culture and collective memory. The book preserves the spirit of jazz while translating its history into a tactile visual experience.
The Years I Kept in My Camera (Photobook)OCT 2025
Book as ArchiveEditorial / Photography 
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The Years I Kept in My Camera
A photo archive exploring memory, time, and the act of holding onto fleeting moments.
Through minimal layouts and quiet sequencing, the book reflects how images remain long after the moment has passed.
Second SkinOCT 2025
Core 3 Design StudioTypography 

Second Skin began with something small: the cases wrapped around phones. At first glance, they appear purely functional, yet they quietly reveal how people choose to protect, decorate, or conceal parts of themselves. What starts as a simple observation becomes a reflection on identity, intimacy, and everyday attachment.

The project is shaped by conversations and shared stories. Some people never change their phone cases, allowing them to wear down over time. Others cover them in stickers, building layers of memory and expression. Some choose to go without a case entirely. These subtle decisions reflect habits, personalities, and emotional relationships with objects that are touched every day.

Through photography and design, Second Skin documents phone cases as quiet extensions of the self. The book shifts focus away from the object alone and toward the individuals behind it, revealing how ordinary digital accessories can carry personal meaning and emotional presence.
“Opting Out” Manifesto Poster OCT 24
Core 2 Typography
 Typography



This typographic manifesto explores the idea of “opting out” of conventional work structures to design a life driven by courage, creativity, and independence. Using bold, overlapping type and vibrant color contrasts, the posters visualize the rebellion against conformity and the empowerment found in creating meaningful work. The expressive composition reflects the manifesto’s message—embracing uncertainty, redefining success, and designing one’s path with intention. Inspired by the Opted-Out Life philosophy, the project transforms text into a dynamic visual voice that motivates viewers to rethink the boundaries of work, freedom, and purpose.

The History of New York Subway
DEC 2024
Core 2 Typography
Editorial / Typography


History of the New York Subway is a typographic wiki book that traces the evolution of one of the world’s most iconic transit systems. Designed as an informative yet visually engaging publication, the book organizes historical facts, maps, and imagery through a grid-based layout inspired by subway signage and wayfinding systems. Each spread balances hierarchy, rhythm, and legibility, allowing typography to guide readers as if navigating underground routes. The design reflects the subway’s dual identity—both a functional network and a cultural symbol of New York City’s movement, diversity, and design legacy.

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