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ANNE CHEN
Anne Chen is a Shanghai-born designer and a senior at Boston University, graduating in Spring 2026. With a minor in printmaking, she is particularly drawn to etching and silkscreen, often combining the two, or integrating them with graphic design, to explore how analog and digital processes can meaningfully inform one another. Her practice centers on creating moments of connection: between people, between materials, and between inner experience and outward expression. Alongside this desire to communicate through works, she values self-exploration and continuous learning. This curiosity has led her to work across a wide range of graphic design fields, including branding, packaging, editorial design, UI/UX, and motion graphics. Originally from Shanghai, she enjoys films, animation, manga, and video games.
In high school, I joined an art club and was immediately drawn to a series of film posters designed by the seniors. After learning Adobe Illustrator from the club, I was pleasantly surprised to realize that I might be able to create designs like that too.
It’s hard for me to choose just one designer or artist among all the creators I admire. So I would probably choose one of my family members who influenced many of my earliest creative interests and shaped my relationship with making things.
My Catalog of Influences. It was my first fully creative editorial design project, and all the writing in it was based on self-analysis and exploration, which are things I used to resist. The process was painful, but I was delighted with the result. At least from a design perspective, I have no complaints, because I tried so many things I never had the chance to do before. Maybe after I gather more experiences, I’ll make a second volume someday.
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