is a designer exploring contemporary design through visual research and cultural observation. Growing up in Canton, China, a region shaped by imported culture, pop culture, and rapid urbanization, she explores the intersections of Eastern and Western visual languages, focusing on cultural hybridity as a condition of unity, integration, and coexistence.

Within a design practice shaped by critical thinking and experimental exploration, she consciously sets aside pre-existing cultural assumptions and judgments, engaging in observation of everyday scenes and activating sensory experience to understand how visual symbols are generated and transformed across different contexts. Huang’s work uses typography as its primary medium, treating words and images as visual materials that can be deconstructed and reshaped. Through processes of deconstruction and reconstruction, she challenges Western-centered and traditionally dominant aesthetic frameworks by re-examining identity and cultural symbols. Her work creates space for multiple perspectives and encourages viewers to engage through intuition and lived experience, rather than a single fixed mode of reading.
As an educator, she emphasizes a process-driven design approach, encouraging students to engage in bold, curiosity-driven inquiry through multi-sensory exploration, material experimentation, and rigorous technical practice. She positions making as a mode of design thinking, guiding students to transform critical questions into socially impactful visual explorations through iteration, reflection, and dialogue that provoke thought and foster broader discussion.

Huang is actively involved in professional design organizations including AIGA, RGD, SOTA, and UCDA, and her work has been recognized by AIGA, Adobe, AAF, GDUSA, and Indigo. Huang has presented at major conferences including the AIGA Design Conference, TypeCon, the RGD Design Educator Conference, and the UCDA Design Educator Summit.

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, NC2025

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

GRANTS

Propel Travel Grant
Division of Research
Bowling Green State University
2025

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

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

TEACHING

Bowling Green State Univerisity
Assistant Professor of Graphic Design2023-Present

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