About
A Short Bio
Eager Zhang (b. 1997, China Mainland) is a visual artist and graphic designer. Being brought up as multi-lingual and trained with coding tools in college, they explore among the territory of reading behavior, language issues and poetry writing, and expands the practice into printmaking, editorial design, and web architecture.
Zhang currently lives in Los Angeles, United States, and also works as a faculty of Graphic Design BFA/MFA, Otis College of Art and Design.
Contact
eagerzliterally@gmail.com
ezhang@otis.edu (school related)
Featured CV Items
Selected Awards
Society of Typographic Arts’s 100 – Winner
AIGA A18 — Award of Excellence
International Motion Art Awards 11
Award360° 100 2022 – Cultural Branding of the Year
Creative Review Annual 2022 – Honorable Mention
Tokyo Type Director Club Annual Award 2022 – Award of Excellence
Asian Pacific Design Issue.17 – Award of Selected
TDK Award 20’ – Winner, 1 of 30 global creative indie designers / new grads
Bienal Internacional Del Cartel En México (16BICM) International Poster Competition – Award of Selected
IDA AWARD – Gold (1x), Bronze (1x)
A’ DESIGN AWARD
Selected Clients
GQ Japan
Crack Magazine
Kansas City Art Institute
Tongji University
Aston Martin Shanghai
Shanghai Technology Museum
Jina Valentine Studio x O’Hare Airport, Chicago
Lien Truong Studio
Academic Experience
Assistant Professor
August 2023 – Present
Graphic Design BFA + MFA,
Otis College of Art and Design / Los Angeles, CA
Visiting Assistant Professor, AICAD Fellow
August 2021 – May 2023
Graphic Design BFA
Kansas City Art Institute / Kansas City, MO
Education
MFA, Visual Communication Design
School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Bachelor of Engineering, Media & Communication Design
Tongji University