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Allison Hsiao is an editorial and graphic designer from Taipei, Taiwan, and Los Angeles, USA, currently based in London. Her practice spans editorial design, branding, packaging, illustration, and visual identity, working across art, fashion, food, medical, and beauty sectors. Her experience includes nomo®creative and Harper’s BAZAAR. She holds a BFA in Graphic Design from California Institute of the Arts (CalArts). Her work moves between commercial and personal projects, with work published internationally and recognised by design awards.
Publication/ Taiwan Designer File, MdN, Japan (w/nomo®creative), 2023
/ Packaged for Life: Scent, viction:ary (w/nomo®creative), 2023
/ PALETTE mini 00: Nude, viction:ary (w/nomo®creativ
/ Inside Out & Upside Down, WORTHINGTON, 2020
Awards/ Birthday, 2024 Booooooom Illustration Awards, LONGLIST, 2024
/ egotree Nootropics, Golden Pin Design Award, MARK WINNER, 2022
/ egotree Nootropics, Taipei Design Award, DISTINCTION, 2022
/ Packaging Design, Adobe ADAA & MAX Awards, SEMIFINALIST, 2018
Exhibitions/ Inside Out & Upside Down, REDCAT Theater, USA, 2021
/ Make it BIG!, CalArts Graphic Design Program, 2020
/ Work in Progress, CalArts Graphic Design Program, 2019
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■ Design | Allison Hsiao
■ All other creative roles are credited to the respective contributors listed in the magazine credits.
Editorial design created while working at Harper’s BAZAAR Taiwan.
■ Design | Allison Hsiao
■ All other creative roles are credited to the respective contributors listed in the magazine credits.
Editorial design created while working at Harper’s BAZAAR Taiwan.
■ Design | sampleanimal + Jia Hong Huang
■ Illustration | Allison Hsiao
■ Music | Wendy Wonder, Midnight Blue
Album artwork for Wendy Wonder, Midnight Blue.
■ 18’’ x 24’’ in
■ Digital Print
This foldable, double-sided poster compares the work of Wim Crouwel and Experimental Jetset, exploring their approaches to typography, structure, and design thinking across historical and contemporary contexts.
Designed to function as both a brochure and a poster, it balances information and form—using layout and grid as tools for both communication and analysis.
Camera Notes (Part One & Two)
■ 20’’ x 28’’ in
■ Silkscreen print with CMYK colors
■ Collaboration with Ethan Östling
■ Photography | Allison Hsiao
This poster responds to Alexandra Cuesta’s Camera Notes, a work built from the quiet accumulation of everyday moments. Filmed across upstate New York, Los Angeles, Japan, and Chile, Cuesta captures fragments that resist narrative, unfolding instead through repetition and attention.
The design draws on typography inspired by 16mm film packaging, referencing the material language of her practice. Combined with a focus on subtlety and fragmentation, it suggests an ongoing process of looking—holding space for small details, memory, and presence.
■ 20’’ x 28’’ in
■ Silkscreen Print
The CalArts School of Film/Video presents a juried selection of special screenings featuring new films by students across its four programs. The poster uses geometric shapes and linear elements to create optical movement, giving the typography a sense of motion. Inspired by lenticular imagery, layered lines produce a shifting visual effect that reflects the temporal nature of film.