Projects

New Lines
2024-present

Editorial Art︎︎︎

Illustration

Produced top art for web and print articles using wire illustration, photo collage, and animation. Grew average clickrate of articles by 10%. Worked closely with regional and international editors to identity each essay’s key visual elements, while avoiding stereotypical tropes of foreign subjects.

New Lines Institute Print Redesign

Visual Identity Art Direction Web Design User Research

Oversee, design, and implement new visual identity for the New Lines Institute aimed at growing awareness and reach of organization. Updates to logo, color palette, and typography center the think tank as a more established yet innovative presence within a saturated foreign policy field. (Page coming soon)

New Lines Magazine Multimedia and Interactives Site

Design Content Strategy User Research

Curate and develop multimedia site to increase reader engagement. This page extends New Lines’ outlook on global issues told from a personal perspective through visual storytelling.

Magazine Social Visuals

Design Editing Social Media Strategy

Created templates and trained staff on how to edit visual content for social media. Worked closely with social media editor to grow Instagram by 3000 followers within one month.

Inside Syria’s Captagon Industry ︎︎︎

To create a sense of dynamism, I incorporated New Lines' slant / across image dividers, while color-coding content tags according to each story’s lead image.

Revealing Ground Zero of the Swiss Adoption Scandal ︎︎︎

Photo Essays

Commissioning Photo Editing

Photographers and journalists often self-pair when pitching their stories. Collaborating closely with editors, I help define key throughlines for photographers to maintain in the field before editing their batch.

Assad’s Human Slaughter House (Photographs by Cian Ward)︎︎︎

Local residents break into Sednaya in search for their relatives for the first time.

Woman shows photographs of her missing son.

Inside a cell at Sednaya Prison, a pile of clothes and bedding have been left behind by liberated detainees.

A group of men take photographs of papers they found on the ground, hoping to find the names of their missing loved ones.

A severed noose lays on the floor of a prison cell.

In a Propaganda Move, Russia Targeted and Deported Disabled Children From Ukraine (Photographs by Ivan Antypenko)︎︎︎

Artem Parakonnyi, who was taken by the Russians without his or his family’s consent, embraces his grandmother Nina Medynska in front of their home.

Portraits of Anton Volkovych in Maryna Zamyshliaieva's apartment. Darivka, Kherson region. June, 2024.

Petro Yenyushin shows a photo of his younger brother Gosha on his phone, taken shortly before he was taken from Oleshky.

Vadym Reutsky, a teacher and sports coach at the school, is in the gym of the school near his home.

The largest library in Kherson region, damaged by Russian artillery shelling.

Remains of artillery on a school building in Kherson.

Fulbright Germany
2023

Bearing Witness

Curation Exhibition Design Writing Pamphlet Design

Bearing Witness was a digital exhibition presented at The Racial Imaginary Institute’s Summer Symposium, co-curated by Sonya Imin and myself. The exhibition featured artists Ma Jianzheng, Camilla Dilshat, Medina Bazargali, and Yadykar Ibraimov, as well as the co-curators — the first intersectional cohort to speak out on the Uyghur crisis together. Taking inspiration from state propoganda, the poster and pamphlet design contrast idyllic portrayals of the region with the harsh realities unfolding within it.

Poster for The Racial Imaginary Institute's Summer Symposium

Pamphlet including the exhibition statement, introduction to artists, and descriptions of featured works.

Foreign Policy Magazine
2021 - 2022

China Visuals

Writing Photo Research Illustration

Critiquing past coverage is rarely a priority for legacy publications. But as someone impacted by the harmful narratives they’ve promoted, I saw it as essential. This piece breaks down the many stereotypes present in how media presents China. Written in collaboration with human rights lawyer, Ramona Li, we offer insights into how we can discuss the nation’s context from a lens of understanding.

Illustrating China is More Than Dragons, Pandas, and Propoganda ︎︎︎

Common illustrated tropes published by major western news outlets: dragons and pandas, Xi Jinping, and surveillance aesthetics

Animated Top Art

Animation

Worked closely with Creative Director, Art Director, and artist Doug Chayka to animate top art for FP Analytic Series, The Future of Money.

Animated Ads

Art Direction Animation

Worked with illustrators and Creative Director to illustrate, divide, and animate lead art for various podcast series and interactive projects for the analytics department.

The Negotiators

Art Direction Photo Editing

Managed commissioned episode art for Season 1 of The Negotiators, a podcast series about making deals behind closed doors, by Anuj Shrestha. Photo edited images of notable diplomatic figures every other episode.

The Long Game

Photo Editing

Researched and edited photography for Season 1 of The Long Game, a podcast hosted by American Olympian Ibithaj Muhammad covering how the power of sport can change the world.

Podcast Branding

Commissiong

Managed podcast art between illustrators and Creative Director, Lori Kelley.

Regional Banners and Columnist Profiles

Art Direction Commissioning Color Theory

Managed custom drawings by Oriana Fenwick for FP Newsletter and Regional Banners, as well as all of FP columnists and staff.

The Hustle
2022

The Hustle Daily Graphics

Data Visualization Research Animation Illustration

Over the course of nine months, I produced over 100 data visualizations for The Hustle Daily, a newsletter with over 3 million subscribers. Working between reporters, editors, and project managers, I researched, pitched, and created eye-catching charts, often within just three hours.

Design System 1.0:

Design System 2.0:

Clips & Reporting

Reporting Data Reporting Photography

What happens when your brand is co-opted by extremists? ︎︎︎

Founder’s Wallet

Graphics Design

Devised a visual strategy for showcasing Founder’s Wallet, a blog series which exposes how early entrepeneurs balance expenses for their business. I also created a template and trained reporters on how they can create these graphics for the series each month.

Foreign Affairs Magazine
2020

Animated Illustrations ︎︎︎

Animation Art Direction

When I started at FA, there was a new focus on motion and interactivity. Below are animated GIFs I created using artwork by Heads of State for Foreign Affair’s September issue feature articles.

Issues and Anthologies ︎︎︎

Print Design Layout

Designed spreads for three issues of Foreign Affairs, as well as an Anthology on Trump’s legacy in 2020. Illustrators were commissioned to create art for features and the issue’s cover page.

What Are We Missing? November/December 2020

"A Better Crystal Ball" and "Heads in the Sand"

Can America Recover? January/February 2021

The World Trump Made September/October 2020

Feature article: Why Americans Must Lead Again

Social Visuals

Photo Research & Editing Social Strategy

Every Friday, editors select six articles for FA’s Instagram Stories. Using Art Director Richard Baker’s visual system and color palette, I researched, edited, designed, and formatted photos into mobile carousel graphics.

Selina Lee