Michelle Deng

How do I use? is a catalogue website inspired by the extensive collection of herbs and spices in my cabinet. The design is straightforward to encourage users to spend more time cooking than browsing. It uses bold and complimentary colors to capture the excitement and creative freedom when one adds herbs and spices to their cooking.

Eclair Bakery is a quaint bakery located in midtown east in Manhattan. The bakery is known for its quality products and reasonable price range, primarily selling French pastries, croissants, macarons, tarts, and éclairs. This project is a proposal to update the bakery's existing graphics with a more contemporary flair, while retaining a similar color scheme and featuring characteristics of its products.

Market Crates is a newly established restaurant located in the Nomad district, a trendy and popular area of Manhattan. They serve organic, fresh, and affordable food for people working in the area. This set of illustrations embody the handmade and quality characteristics of the company, highlighting some ingredients in their menu. 

Swiss Issue: Angus Thongs is a nonsensical magazine that invites readers to flip through its newspaper-sized pages for a laugh. The content is based on Google Translations' microphone function which translated Swiss German to English. The left side is the original Swiss German that the app "heard", designed inspired by the International Style; the right side is the translation, designed based on the design education I received from North America. The result is a contrast between rules and disruption, clean type and abbaration, grayscale and color.

A classmate's knitting projects organized and illustrated in an infographic.