Here is a little story about my name and my icon :]
“This is the third time I gave you a ride. Have a very sweet
evening,” the Uber driver said.
As I said the usual “thank
you” and got ready to exit the car, I paused in surprise and asked why
he remembered me.
He said that my name had an interesting
spelling and a beautiful pronunciation.
“It sounds similar
to the word meaning ‘sunflower’ in my language back home.”
I
did ask where he was from, but I don’t seem to have remembered it.
So I opened Google translate, typed “sunflower,” went
through all the possible equivalents in different languages that I could
find, and let the browser pronounce each one of them.
Nothing sounded similar.
Perhaps I remembered it
wrong, or perhaps the driver didn’t really mean “sunflower,” or perhaps
he was just joking, but I have started to relate my name to “sunflower”
somehow.
Tel: +1 (203) 772 9423
mengjieliu.mumu@gmail.com
portfolio & CV available on request
Mengjie is a graphic designer, web designer & developer, UI/UX designer
(and artist?) currently based in New Haven and New York.
She studied Japanese in college, and got her MFA degree in
Graphic Design at Yale School of Art in 2022.
During her
study, people have described her work as “beautiful”, “full of heart”,
“quiet but expressive”, “subtle and very precise”, “great sensitivity to
materials & form”, “great attention to craft...”
And she
once described her work as:
“It is never invasive, or angry,
or heavy. It is like a bubble floating in the sky, like dust accumulated
in the corner; perhaps sometimes it is more like a wisdom-tooth hole, a
slight papercut; and sometimes it feels like a feather brushing the
cheek, sounds like a whisper, smells like grass after the rain.”