Xiaojun Huang is a Toledo-based designer and educator whose practice engages cultural semiotics, typographic experimentation, and exhibition systems. Working between Eastern and Western visual traditions, she examines cultural hybridity as both structure and tension, using typography and spatial frameworks to question inherited visual norms. Her projects operate at the intersection of form, language, and environment, constructing systems that invite interpretation and critical reflection.

As an educator at Bowling Green State University, she emphasizes process-driven inquiry, multi-sensory exploration, and rigorous hands-on experimentation. Her pedagogy foregrounds making as a mode of thinking, guiding students from conceptual research through material execution.

PresentationS: LECTURE

How Song-Dynasty Paper Money and Early Movable Type Shaped Currency Design in Eastern and Western Cultures
Traditions of East Asian Typography Conference
University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA2026

What If the News Looked Like This? A Student Experiment in Visual Narrative
RGD Design Educators Conference #ShiftShaping
George Brown College, Toronto, ON, Canada 2025

From Labor, Time, Typography to Teaching: A Five-Year Trajectory
Tulane University School of Architecture and Built Environment, New Orleans, LA 2025

Printed Matter Or Digital Wallet Matter? Exploring Typeface Dynamics on Currency Design in Eastern and Western Cultures
TypeCon
Portland, OR2024

Design for Good: Gen Z's Multi-Sensory Workshop Takeover
RGD Design Educators Conference #Compassion
Creativity and CommunityVancouver Community College, Vancouver, BC, Canada2024

Beyond Laughter: How Internet Memes are Shaping Our Online Community
AIGA Design Conference #The View From Here
New York City, NY2023

PresentationS: POSTER

(upcoming) Mapping the Tenure Journey: Reflection, Connection, and Coping Strategies
AIGA Design Educators Conference #Throughlines
Sinclair Community College, Dayton, OH2026

(upcoming) Structuring the Unknown into Playful Process: Importance of Experiential Design Education
AIGA Design Educators Conference #Throughlines
Sinclair Community College, Dayton, OH2026

Design Meets Wellness and Movement
UCDA Design Education Summit #Mindful
University of North Carolina, Charlotte, NC2026

Awards

Silver Winner
Bronze Winner
(Graphic Design: Promotional Materials, Poster and Brochure Design)
Indigo Design Award Competition2026

Winner
GDUSA American Digital Design Competition2026

Judges Choice Addy Award + Bronze Addy Award
American Advertising Federation (AAF Toledo)2026

Winner
GDUSA American Digital Design Competition2025

National Finalist (1/7)
AIGA Command X (2-Day Live Competition)2021

Bronze Medalist
Poster Competition of Innovation Center for Design Excellence2018

Judges Choice Award
Adobe Creative Jam2017

Education

MFA, 2D Design
Cranbrook Academy of Arts
Bloomfield Hills, MI, United States2020

BFA, Book Arts with Honors
Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts
Guangzhou, Guangdong, China2016

Exhibitions

‘Thorned Pattern’, Express Partners Faculty Art Show
Walter E. Terhune Art Gallery, Perrysburg, OH2025

‘Thorned Pattern’, School of Art Faculty And Staff Exhibition
BGSU Dorothy Uber Bryan Gallery, Bowling Green, OH2024

‘Today is...Fatcoiday’, POST Exhibition
Wasserman Projects, Detroit, MI2021

“Get out of the Pool”, Fruit Punch Exhibition
Cranbrook Forum Gallery, Bloomfield Hills, MI2019

and more...

Xiaojun Huang

Graphi Designer

Educatr

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