MAGGIE XIAN

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Maggie Meitong Xian is a designer interested in systems of all sorts, with experiences spanning identity, editorial, and web. She will receive her BFA in Graphic Design from Rhode Island School of Design in Spring 2026, with minors in Computation and Sustainability. You’ll most likely find her near a body of water, but home will always be under the long white clouds of Aotearoa New Zealand.

Resume and PDF portfolio available upon request, reach out at maggiemxian@gmail.com.

© Last updated January 2026. Coded by hand, slowly...

CURRENTLY
Studio Lead
@ RISD Design Guild

PREVIOUSLY
Interactive Design Intern
@ Apple

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@ Albert Park, Tāmaki Makaurau
Landscape poster with three colour coded trips

A visualisation of three trips — a trip I take every day, a trip for a good day, and a trip that takes a day.

head in the clouds poster 1 head in the clouds poster 2 head in the clouds poster 3

Proposed poster series for RISD Artist Ball, under the theme of “Head in the Clouds”. Based upon the ever-changing view from an airplane window, where your head is, literally, in the clouds.

labelled tea set vector illustration

An illustrated guide for sharing tea.

gif of EFS Triennial poster series

Dot-to-dot posters celebrating the diversity and synthesis within RISD's first-year program. Colours and patterns reference the architecture of the Waterman Building, home to the EFS department.

riso horse, green riso horse, paprika
pen plotter horse, brown on grey paper pen plotter horse, brown on grey paper

Risograph and pen plotter experiments with Eadweard Muybridge’s The Horse in Motion (1878).

Website developed using Webflow and custom code for Better World by Design's 2023 conference, “Ripples”. Graphic and web design with Kayla Feng, Li June Choi, and Jin Kim.

Animated editorial illustration for intersex awareness, highlighting hermaphroditism as found in nature.

An accordion book comparing the lives of two Japanese designers, Tadanori Yokoo and Kenya Hara, alongside important World and Art/Design Events.

cover open with pattern book edge close up, pattern book edge close up, yellow
No Light Without Darkness - cover

No Light Without Darkness is a photobook of B+W film photography taken and processed by me. White toner printed on black paper, french fold binding with partial dust jacket.

cover front/back without dust jacket
Poppy seed prints on silver, in violet and bright olive

Risograph printed poppy seed studies.

Poppy seed prints on beige, in black, red, and bright olive
Poppy seed misprints
multiple formats posters with cyan, magenta, yellow

CMYK-based poster and ticket design for Boston University’s annual celebration of printed matter.

ticket
big poster

Poster for an ideated exhibition illuminating the concept of light and optical phenomena. Imagery entirely composed in Illustrator.

A personal colour library based on memories of sunrises from home. Housed in the form of a website that slowly gradiates through all 101 colours in 30 minutes, the length of an average sunrise.

in class crit documentation