Sheer: Issue 08
2026
Crush: Issue 07
2025
Taste: Issue 06
2024
Muse Magazine Visual Design
Contributed editorial layout design, art direction, and visual storytelling, bridging my background in fashion and design to shape the publication's identity.
Muse UW is a student-run fashion and culture publication at the University of Washington that explores the intersection of fashion, art, and identity through editorial photography, styling, and written content.
Visual Designer
Publication
Social Media
Merchandise
Sep. 2025 - Present
InDesign
Photoshop
Illustrator
Figma
DURATION
TOOLS
TYPE
ROLE
What is Muse UW?
Digital
I designed various social media posts to promote audience engagement and blog posts. I worked closely alongside team members from photography and marketing teams for input and feedback to ensure brand identity alignment.
Merchandise
Designed promotional materials including posters and postcards for the UW Maker’s Fair and club-led events. Fundraised over $1k through merchandise selling at club-led events.
For Muse's appearance at the Makers Fair, I designed a limited-run sticker collection and a 2025 calendar — hand-illustrating all assets in my own style. The calendar paired original watercolor food illustrations with a mixed typographic system, and the stickers extended Muse's identity into something collectible and personal. Both pieces were designed to feel distinctly Muse while reflecting my illustration voice — soft, detailed, and playful.
Crush: Issue 07
2025
Live Website
Full-length blogs, archive, and the team
I designed editorial spreads for Issue 08: Sheer, working directly in InDesign and collaborating closely with writers to ensure the design served the story through visuals.
Early explorations prioritized the photography heavily, letting the images lead. But the layout needed to do more conceptual work — the final direction introduced the dark/cream contrast and the oval portrait frame to create visual tension that matched the article's central argument.
EARLY STAGE DRAFTS
FINAL DESIGN
FINAL DESIGN
Here Comes the Bride
The design clarity was the decision — letting Asawa's wire sculpture photography speak and resisting the urge to over-design around it. The restraint connects directly to Sheer as a theme because her sculptures are objects you see through, and the layout mirrors that with negative spaces and a clean editorial grid.
What We Look Through
Designed promotional materials including posters and postcards for the UW Maker’s Fair and club-led events. Fundraised over $1k through merchandise selling at club-led events.
Merchandise
I designed editorial spreads for Issue 08: Sheer, working directly in InDesign and collaborating closely with writers to ensure the design served the story through visuals.
Sheer: Issue 08
2026
Crush: Issue 07
2025
Taste: Issue 06
2024
What is Muse UW?
Muse UW is a student-run fashion and culture publication at the University of Washington that explores the intersection of fashion, art, and identity through editorial photography, styling, and written content.
EARLY STAGE DRAFTS
FINAL DESIGN
Here Comes the Bride
Early explorations prioritized the photography heavily, letting the images lead. But the layout needed to do more conceptual work — the final direction introduced the dark/cream contrast and the oval portrait frame to create visual tension that matched the article's central argument.
What We Look Through
The design clarity was the decision — letting Asawa's wire sculpture photography speak and resisting the urge to over-design around it. The restraint connects directly to Sheer as a theme because her sculptures are objects you see through, and the layout mirrors that with negative spaces and a clean editorial grid.
Muse Magazine Visual Design
ROLE
Visual Designer
Contributed editorial layout design, art direction, and visual storytelling, bridging my background in fashion and design to shape the publication's identity.
Sep. 2025 - Present
TYPE
TIMELINE
Publication
Social Media
Merchandise
TOOLS
Photoshop
Indesign
Illustrator
Figma
FINAL DESIGN
Digital
I designed various social media posts to promote audience engagement and blog posts. I worked closely alongside team members from photography and marketing teams for input and feedback to ensure brand identity alignment.
For Muse's appearance at the Makers Fair, I designed a limited-run sticker collection and a 2025 calendar — hand-illustrating all assets in my own style. The calendar paired original watercolor food illustrations with a mixed typographic system, and the stickers extended Muse's identity into something collectible and personal. Both pieces were designed to feel distinctly Muse while reflecting my illustration voice — soft, detailed, and playful.
