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2025
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2025
My Grandpa Had a Toyota & Guava Trees But Now It’s 2025
A Sudan family photo zine by Raghad E (I provided design support)
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2025 - ongoing
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2025
Replicating Risograph With Your Home Printer
An instruction manual zine for p5.riso@home.
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2025
p5.riso@home
An open source code library for replicating Risograph print effects on your home printer
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2025
Mapping Hong Kong's Digital Typefaces
Cataloguing and analyzing Hong Kong's digital fonts from 2002-2024.
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2024 - ongoing
#HanmojiAnimated
A short animation series that bridges the gap between Chinese characters and their corresponding emoji.
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2024
Ethnic Trader Joe's Fan Zine
Exploring the ethnic aisle of Trader Joe's in-house sub-brands.
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2024
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2023 - ongoing
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2023
A Incomplete Map of the Neverending Malls of KL
An interactive map to cope with the overabundance of mall in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
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2022 - 2025
Lifewriting Annual
An online, open-access journal of critical and scholarly essays on lifewriting in all its forms. I'm part of the editorial team.
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2022 - ongoing
Hanmoji Puzzles
Your bi-weekly dose of emoji word puzzles — a newsletter to accompany The Hanmoji Handbook.
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2022
Recovering from COVID after the worst is over
A guide to overcoming a long spell of viral fatigue. Created with Maggie Wauklyn.
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2022
Think I've Still Got It
The first translation of the cult famous webcomic by Wang XX. A Paradise Systems project.
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2021, 2023
The 2021 Siege of Chinatown
An illustrated story about white entitlement and COVID vaccine outreach in the early days of the global panini.
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2021-2023
Zine Coop Show & Tell Party
A unique twist on the virtual art book fair. Use a pixelated body to walk around, look at things on walls, talk to the people next to you, host your own exhibitor table, and swap zines with other fair goers!
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2021
Llama Land
Because we all need to pet a llama under the stars sometimes. Created with BeanSandBun and respectfulchild.
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2020-2023
The Hanmoji Handbook
Your Guide to the Chinese Language Through Emoji. Co-authored with An Xiao Mina and Jennifer 8. Lee. Published by MITeen Press.
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2020
Escape Doom
Want a fun, safe way of getting together with friends and loved ones? Miss the thrill of solving puzzles with friends in an escape room? Team up to solve a vast paleontological mystery and trace the steps of your childhood friend gone missing.
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2020
Tea Base: The Dream
A Toronto Chinatown community arts space online and an experiment in digital co-presence in the age of COVID-19. Proud host of a virtual art opening and winter market.
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2020
#AllTactics Guide for Getting People to Stay Home
All Tactics for convincing people to take the coronavirus pandemic seriously are good tactics, especially if they are delivered with care, compassion & humor 💫
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2019
Cockroach Emoji Proposal
"Adding a COCKROACH emoji would not only benefit the currently small animal-bug collection but also ensure that if cockroaches do outlive humans in the future, at least they have an emoji too."
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2019
Naked Body
A testament to the vibrant community of independent cartoonists in China, a full-color anthology of outstanding comics. A Paradise Systems project.
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2018-2019
I Heart HK
A webcomic about all that I heart and hate about the city of Hong Kong, a mix of critical social commentary and funny life moments.
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2018
Social Media Safety & Privacy for Asylum Seekers
A workshop template is for running an introductory digital safety & privacy training workshop for asylum seekers and refugees.
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2018
Data Visualization on Inclusivity in Makeup
How inclusive are beauty brands around the world? A collaboration with Amber Thomas, Divya Manian and The Pudding.
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2017
Llama Emoji Proposal
Submitted to the Unicode Consortium. Because there really should be an emoji for llamas and alpacas.
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2017
Teacher's Pet
The first chapter from The House on Horse Mountain: crowdfunded, printed and shipped.
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2016 - ongoing
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2016 - ongoing
Tachyons Verbose
Functional CSS toolkit for web designers & developers alike. I maintain its verbose fork.
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2016 - 2019
Net Alert
Internet security webcomics (research reports + training materials). A collaboration with The Citizen Lab & friends.
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2016 - 2017
Cantonese Mom Recipes
Illustrated dishes & recipes of home-cooked Chinese food. A year-long experiment in learning to draw with my iPad.
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2016 - 2017
I Heart Writing
A Sunday weekly webcomic about the grueling journey behind the creation of my first graphic novel. My attempt at an Instagram-first comic.
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2016
Access My Info
Helping citizens exercise their legal right to their own data. I helped out with some UX design and testing.
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2016
The Kite Family
An literary excerpt from the short story collection of the same name. Swipe to advance. I programmed & designed this.
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2014
The Apartment Block
A digital short story: explore the apartment block on your iPhone. I programmed & designed this.
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2013 - 2017
The Civic Beat
A collective of researchers and writers looking at the creative side of civic technology. We support each other in our goals to engage the public through writing, talks and workshops.
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2013 - 2015
MBA Mondays Illustrated
Fred Wilson's famous series about business operations & startups – now illustrated!
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2013 - 2014
General Assembly Design Classes
I taught a set of three classes on user experience design, from wireframing to testing, for General Assembly Hong Kong.
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2012 - 2020
88 Gong
A job board for tech, media & design opportunities in the Asia Pacific region. Seeing a lack of cross-disciplinary & multi-country job boards, some friends and I launched one.
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2012 - 2013
撐香港 Support HK
Hong Kong's first online petitions platform focusing on environmental issues. I was responsible for the initial UI and graphic design for the site (much of which has since been overwritten).
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2012
Canidu
A electronic circuits learning kit for kids. Exhibited at Maker Faire 2012.
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2011 - 2016
Web design for the arts
Web site design and development for publishers, galleries and artists.
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2010 - ongoing
Sketchnotes Of Talks I Go To
Illustrated notes of talks, panels and conferences that I've attended.
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2010 - 2012
3D Avatar School
A MMO virtual world designed for language education. I was the startup's first employee and head of product.
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2010 - 2011
World Wide Pop
A group blog cataloging and reviewing pop culture from across the globe. I wanted to create a central place where people could find out about other places through their pop culture.
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2010
Kinda Chinese in Barcelona
The story of a simple Chinaman in a foreign land. A short comic based on my experience of living in Barcelona from 2008 to 2010.
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2009 - 2013
I Heart Recession
Laughing at ourselves about the recession. A webcomic I began shortly after the global economic recession/financial crisis hit us all.
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2009
Reflections on Work
A picture book about the wild world of white-collar work.
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2007 - ongoing
The House on Horse Mountain
A graphic memoir about a young girl growing up in the bygone Hong Kong of the 1960s. Based on my mother's stories about her childhood.
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2007 - 2009
Consulting & design
Cut my teeth at Adaptive Path, the Institute for the Future and Node helping organizations improve their products, innovate and understand their customers better.
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2006 - ongoing
88 Bar · 八八吧
A group blog about technology, media & design in China and the rest of the Sinophone world. I serve as its editor and as one of its writers.
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2006 - 2007
I Heart Brown
A sardonic take on student life at an elite American university. A webcomic I wrote in college that eventually made its way into the school newspaper.
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2006
Comicboarding
A novel way to co-create with kids using comics. A collaboration with the team at Microsoft Research Asia.
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1998 - 2002
RPGd
An online news site for video game fan translations, primarily Japanese to English. I was its editor and one of its writers.
