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Maggie Meitong Xian 🔖

is pursuing a BFA in Graphic Design, Computation, & Sustainability @ Rhode Island School of Design.

Striving to design with care and empathy, her work is often informed by research and the interplay of physical and digital. Raised in Aotearoa New Zealand, you’ll most likely find her near a body of water.

Currently @ RISD Design Guild, & Design Lead @ Better World by Design.

Resume available upon request.

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Miscellaneous Posters

multiple formats poster 1 - cyan multiple formats poster 2 - magenta multiple formats poster 3 - yellow
head in the clouds poster 1 head in the clouds poster 2 head in the clouds poster 3
colour & identity poster
better world x boba poster

RISD Yearbook 2024

Publication, Photography
Spring 2024

With Andrew Liu, Ash Ma, Christine Wang, Emma Caamaño, Hannah Jeong, Joyce Ho, Kayla Feng, Li Huang, Patrick Farrell, Peter Weicheng Xu, Ryan Brandon Hsiao, & Ryan Yan @ RISD Design Guild.

This yearbook takes the viewer away from their common beginnings at RISD into an imagined future where each graduating student is famous. Where and who will they be by 2034? Each year, the graduating class' yearbook is student-designed by the Design Guild.

RISD 2024 Yearbook - cover
yearbook photo pages yearbook spreads layout - 1
yearbook spreads layout - 2 yearbook directory & endleaf

No Light Without Darkness

Publication, Photography
Winter 2024

Advised by Jenny Edwards for Intro to Darkroom Photography @ RISD.

Photobook featuring a selection of black-and-white film photography taken and processed by me. White toner printed on black paper, french fold binding with partial dust jacket.

No Light Without Darkness - cover
photobook spread
photobook spread
cover front/back with dust jacket
cover front/back without dust jacket

Glimmer

Type, Poster
Fall 2023

Advised by Ernesto Aparicio for Typography I @ RISD.

A geometric, modular sans serif.

specimen page 2
Glimmer poster

Wave to Wave

Code, Sound, Videography
Fall 2023

Advised by Shawn Greenlee for Spatial Audio @ RISD.

What would light sound like if it were sound, and what would sound look like if it were light? Although different in many ways, light and sound both result from the interactions of particles and waves. Pre-recorded video of sunlight upon the Providence River is scanned by an algorithm coded in Max/Jitter, which then assigns synthesized sound to a position in ambisonic space. The azimuth and elevation of the sound is determined by factors such as brightness and position of light within the video frame. The piece is interactive through the use of a Korg MIDI controller by which qualities of the synthesized sound can be adjusted, making every performance unique.

First performed and recorded with the 25.4 loudspeaker array in RISD’s Studio for Research in Sound and Technology. Best listened with headphones in a quiet space.

live performance documentation - 1
live performance documentation - 2

perpetual sunrise, perpetual home

Code
Spring 2024

Advised by Ramon Tejada for Colour + Surface @ RISD.

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. Open it here, leave for a while, and come back for a surprise.

in class crit documentation