Qiyue Wang
Hey, I am Qiyue!
I am a visual communicator exploring the emotional power of design through illustration, storytelling, and socially-engaged projects. My practice focuses on mental health, identity, and quiet resilience, often using posters, zines, and comics as my medium. With a cross-cultural perspective and strong research foundation, I aim to create work that not only informs, but connects—bringing personal stories into public spaces and making invisible feelings visible.
A Hug For The Heart
A Hug For The Heart is a visual communication project that explores emotional support for international students facing loneliness and mental health challenges. Inspired by personal experience, the project combines poster design, illustrated cards to offer warmth, encouragement, and shared understanding. Using gentle color palettes, tactile textures, and human-centered typography, the visuals aim to soothe and connect. The design speaks softly but firmly, reminding viewers that even in unfamiliar environments, empathy and kindness can be found. Through this project, I hope to turn silent struggles into visible support—and offer a quiet hug to those who need it most.
Subconscious Motion
Subconscious Motion is a design project inspired by Freud’s The Interpretation of Dreams. It explores the hidden logic of dreams through surreal illustration, book design, and interactive AR experiences. The project visualizes the fragmented, symbolic, and often irrational nature of the subconscious, using soft gradients, abstract forms, and psychological metaphors. The final outcome includes a conceptual book with an illustrated cover, dreamlike spreads, and an AR feature that brings internal emotions into external motion. The design blends traditional media with digital technology to capture the tension between conscious control and unconscious flow. Through this project, I aim to present dreams not as chaotic nonsense, but as meaningful visual poetry—a language of symbols that speaks from the inside out.
XXS is a visual critique of body image anxiety in the digital age. The title refers to an imaginary clothing size that symbolizes unrealistic beauty standards shaped by social media. This project combines poster design, editorial illustration, and comic storytelling to explore how online culture—especially platforms like Instagram—contributes to distorted self-perception, especially among young women. Using bold typography, compressed proportions, and surreal metaphors, the visuals exaggerate the tension between the ideal and the real. One key component is a zine-style comic, which narrates the internal struggle of shrinking oneself to fit into impossible expectations. Through raw illustration and ironic visuals, XXS challenges the audience to reflect on how “smallness” has become aestheticized—and how visual design can be used to reclaim space for authenticity, softness, and self-acceptance.
