YUNXI YE (LUCY)

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Lucy Ye is a Graphic Designer from Hangzhou(CN), currently based in Boston.

Her practice combines a “take it easy" openness with structured, verb-led experimentation, exploring how everyday actions and tools shape visual communication. Working across typography, publication design, motion graphics, and interactive media, she creates participatory and performative systems that translate physical action into visual and collective experience.


Selected Awards, Press & Showcases

2026
GDUSA 2026 Students-To-Watch


2025
Graduate360°

Annual Graduation Design Award

2025
GDC Award 25

Young Award

2025
The 25th Platinum Originality International University Students Graphic Design Competition

Sliver Award, Excellence Award


2024
CGDA

Graphic Design Academy Award


Education 2024 - 2026
Boston University
| MFA Graphic Design
GPA 4.0

2020 - 2024
Kean University
| BFA Graphic Design 
GPA 3.9 (Graduation Honor, Dean's List)


Experience09/2025 - 01/2026
Teaching Assistantship, Boston University

Branding Design, Sophomore Graphic Design

09/2024 - 05/2025
Design Assistant, Boston University
Tuesday Night Lectures Series: Designer

11/2024 - 05/2025
MFA 2025 Exhibition, Boston University
Web Design, Identity Design

09/2024 - 12/2024
Tissuerate Company

Branding Design
San Francisco, CA, USA

06/2022 - 09/2022
Edelman Public Relations Worldwide, Shanghai
Art Intern Creative


Selected Exhibition

2026
Urbanism\Architecture Bi-City Biennale (UABB), Shenzhen

2026
Presidential Address, Tsai Performance Center, Boston

2025
Multiple Formats Art Book Fair, Boston




i never read

Branding
2025
I Never Read, Art Book Fair is an annual art book fair held in Basel. The name originates from a quote by Andy Warhol, discovered by founders Wüthrich and Willi during a visit to a Warhol exhibition at the Museum für Moderne Kunst in Frankfurt. The phrase resonated with the fair’s intention and was adopted as its title: a metaphor for a platform dedicated to exploring the relationship between text, performance, art production, and the book. It embraces texts that may never be read in a conventional sense, yet still embody forms of knowledge.

Building on this conceptual foundation, this rebranding project focuses on the shifting states of “read” within the context of the book fair. Linguistically, read remains unchanged in form across present, past, and future tense, yet its meaning is activated through time and context. Similarly, visitors to the fair move through distinct states—not yet read, reading, and having read—as they enter, engage with, and leave the exhibition space.

By aligning these temporal reading states with the unchanging form of the word read, the project treats time itself as the core branding structure. Rather than redesigning the fair as a static identity, the rebrand operates as a temporal system. In this way, the visual identity reflects reading not as a fixed action, but as an ongoing condition shaped by presence, duration, and experience.