Zhe Xiao (Crystal)
Email address
moc.liamg@92100.eh.z.xBiography
I am a multidisciplinary designer focused on visual communication and media experimentation. My work centres on how visual language is conveyed across different contexts, specialising in typography, print, and motion graphics to explore the role of graphic design in contemporary society. In my practice, I often combine traditional printing techniques with digital technology to investigate the relationships between narrative, space, and materials, striving to create visual works that are both thought-provoking and perceptually engaging.
Portfolio
Original Machines
Original Machines is a branding and visual identity design project for a virtual exhibition. It simulates the look of AI-generated systems through human-made disruption. Typography is deconstructed into abstract, modular forms—letters stretched, fragmented, and misaligned to mimic algorithmic error. Visual interference and data-like patterns evoke a corrupted digital surface. At its core, only three glyphs remain: H, N, A: Human, Not AI. What looks automated is built with intent. This system reclaims creative control in an age of generative aesthetics, turning machine language against itself.
Texture Archives (Self Directed Project)
This project combines traditional techniques—Screen Printing, Embossing, Box Making, Coptic Binding, and Continuous Folding—to explore their expressive potential in modern design. It aims to preserve craftsmanship while reinterpreting its role in contemporary visual communication.
Passage
This project is a dual-screen video work combining self-practice and visual experimentation, inspired by the phrase: “Rest isn’t a luxury, it’s a requirement for sustaining long-term productivity and mental clarity.” Throughout ongoing research and creation, I realised that although this statement seems obvious, I have never truly learned how to rest. Therefore, this project became a process for me to explore, practice, and experience ‘rest’ through artistic creation.