Tiana Li

How would you define making it big?

Being financially independent enough to buy a Dyson V11 Torque Drive cordless vacuum.

What's a big move that has shaped you?

Losing sight.

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Biggest influence on your work?

Realizing the privilege, opportunity, + guilt associated to our ability to chase our dreams

Weirdest thing encountered at CalArts?

Rubberized fetus baby on ground.

What is your favorite part of the design process?

The research + the writing + the summation of thoughts.

How have current (big) circumstances affected your perspective on design?

The nature of design is autonomous – the only true obstacle is in your head, not your surroundings.

What are 3 must-haves/must-dos that put you in a working mood?

A productive crit + pc music + a stimulating conversation between friends.

What's your signature design move?

Designing with and referencing towards a grid that doesnt exist.

GirlFend Brand Development

GirlFend is a line of self-defense armor for women and other marginalized individuals who face harassment on the daily. GirlFend exists in a space where conditions are so extreme that women have to resort to high-tech, inconspicuous yet fashionable garments and tools for prevention and protection.

I LAUGH TILL I CRY

A physical archive of every laugh-cry emoji scoured from the tremble troves of the internet, documenting the process of how we’ve come to commercialize and commodify a human emotion. This hand-bound book full of post-digital artifacts is now thrust back into the screen.

Smack It Up By FannyPack

2020 re-rendering of a 2003 Homage to the 80s/90s.

(you.) – Memory Broadsheet

A broadsheet based on a layered typeface I created and out of the memory of an old friend I no longer can talk to.