QUEENY SHEN
CONTACT
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Queeny Shen is a designer based in New York and Shenzhen.
She is currently pursuing a BFA degree in Communication Design at the Parsons School of Design. Her work often explores topics and issues related to society, feminism, culture, etc.
She loves making books.
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""""""""""""""""""PALOMA WOOLSilkscreen
拒绝内卷Silkscreen
WOMEN’S DAY Silkscreen
THE PARKRisograph
2025 YEAR OF THE SNAKE
Woodcut & Letterpress
CHELSEARelief Carving
OLYMPIC POSTER
Risograph
2024 DRAGON YEAR CALENDARLithography
[01]
ON WOMEN
Book Design
Raster Engraving
Perfect Binding
This book explores traces left by or on women, showcasing various artistic expressions and narratives focusing on women's experiences and influence. It delves into the concept of traces through art, photography, history, and the human body.
[02]
Risograph Posters
SOCIETY ZEN
Exhibition Visual Design
Branding
Creating promotional materials for a fictional tea exhibition that is set within a bamboo forest in Yangshuo, Guilin, and coming up with a brand identity for a tea brand. The purpose of this exhibition is to promote tea culture and encourage people to slow down from the busy urban life, appreciating the tranquility and joy brought by tea and nature.
[03]
Video & Photo Documentation of Event
INTERPLAYSE
Exhibition Design
Branding
Vinyl cut
Social media has become an inseparable part of daily life, especially since the pandemic, when it became the primary means of expression, connection, and entertainment. Our engagement with the current digital landscape resembles philosopher Mikhail Bakhtin’s concept of carnival—a space where social hierarchies and rules are temporarily suspended, allowing for uninhibited play and free expression.
InterPlayse is an event that attempts to translate this phenomenon into a tangible, immersive experience by amplifying the exaggerated, performative, and absurd behaviors found online. InterPlayse materializes the chaotic, liberating, and sometimes disorienting nature of social media into our physical reality.
Upon arrival, visitors receive a kit containing a booklet, a mask, and a sticker pack.The stickers serve as a tool for interaction, while the mask offers anonymity and can be customized to reflect one’s persona. The experience consists of one universal task and four optional activities inspired by the carnival. Participants earn stickers by engaging with others, with top collectors receiving free merchandise. The activities include creating and trading customized memes, responding to real-time prompts on a large screen, drawing and writing freely on walls and floors, and using an open stage to perform or share thoughts.
[04]
256 IMAGES
Book Design
Accordion/Dos-à-dos
Saddle stitch
This book is a collection of images that reflect who I am, my likings, thoughts and aesthestics. The images are categorized based on the brightness either of the photo itself or the object in the image. Brightness here refers to both level of lighting or the vibrancy of a color. There are four sections in the book: Dark, Dim, Ambient, Bright.
This book is designed to be experienced at your own pace, using time as a guide for reflection. Each image is placed on a time scale, with both axes representing seconds (0 to 60). The position of the image shows how long you should view it. For example, an image at (60,60) means to look at it for 60 seconds.
[05]
TRACES
Book/Calendar Design
Ring binding
This project aims to highlight the hidden narratives within ordinary traces found on streets, emphasizing that even mundane objects have stories waiting to be discovered. In this perforated calendar, you’ll find several narratives unfolded simultaneously, and there is no one correct way to read or interpret them. The collection of photographs tells a single, open-ended story, accompanied by various anecdotes gathered from a blog. These fragments of texts can be paired with the visuals while the pages remain intact, and they can also stand independently once each page has been torn out.
[06]
THE DEATH OF ROCKS
Brochure
Risograph
Rocks are something we see regularly in the outdoors, yet they remain invisible to us and are commonly ignored as ordinary objects. Despite this, rocks are a fundamental part of our environment and the Earth's structure, playing a crucial role in shaping the planet's landscapes and ecosystems. However, they are frequently overlooked in our daily lives.
The goal of this project is to bring attention to the significance of rocks by emphasizing their importance and examining their gradual disappearance due to various factors.
[07]
NARRATIVE 280
Book Design
Accordion
This project is an experiment that attempts to archive fleeting moments online in an intiruging way. It turns a collection of over 20 Twitter posts into a new, interconnected story through the use of AI.
The use of translucent paper echoes the fleeting nature of social media. In addition, it creates a dual reading experience. On one side, readers engage with both text and images, while on the other, the narrative unfolds solely through visuals, offering a different yet interconnected perspective. The goal was to create an experience that made people pause and reflect.
[08]
Generative Typesetter
About Page
3D Simulation SpaceExterior & Interior
NEUROTYPE
Web Design
This was a collaborative effort with Minkyung Cho.
An experimental project that aims to visualize schiphrenia through typesetting.
Through this visual represenation, we hope it could help others understand the primary experiences of those experiencing Schizophrenia.
The transformation of typography and design were developed based on research and first-hand accounts of individuals who live with symptoms of schizophrenia.
[09]
SENSITIVE WORDS
Book Design
Japanese Stab Stitch Binding
French fold
This is a small-scale book project that borrows from archives and experiments with form. I decided to produce a french folded book, and the content is sourced from an archive called “Sensitive Words” created by China Digital Times. The “Sensitive Words” series documents keywords that are censored on Chinese social media.
[10]
Desktop View
Mobile View
PAGE 36
Web DesignI collected books from different sources, including my own collection, those of my friends, a local bookstore, and the university library. I decided to gather words from the 36th page of each book, whether or not the book contained the page. Each word was either the 3rd or 6th word on the page. I chose the number 36 due to my superstitious beliefs, as 3 and 6 are considered lucky numbers in my culture. In Chinese, "3" sounds similar to "生" (Sheng), which means growth and is associated with making money, while "6" has the connotation of "顺" (Shun), meaning things would go smoothly and successfully.
In addition, I designed a writing-mode for the website which allows users to create their own poems or texts. I selected books in different languages so that users can construct sentences freely, either according to the meaning of the words or their pronunciations.
[11]
WELLNESS KIT
Package Design
This is a gift set of three that contains different Chinese medicine based products, which are used to improve one’s health and well-being. The set includes a scented sachet, footbath pack and nutrient supplement balls. The design was inspired by traditional Chinese medicine packaging. This gift set is targeted towards young adults and middle-aged people.