IvanZhaoisadesigner,programmer,&wordsartistwithaloveofanimations,comics,games,&type.
education
2024
Type DesignType West
2022
Applied Math-Computer ScienceBrown University
experiences
2025 - present
Frontend EngineerPersona
2022 - present
DesignerFreelance
2024 - 2024
Design EngineerTypeface
2023 - 2024
Founding Design EngineerGalileo AI
2021 - 2023
Designer + Creative DirectorReboot + Kernel
exhibitions, shows, & readings
forthcoming
Tong in TonguesRadical Characters
06-2025
DEMO FESTIVALNew Inc
06-2025
Foglifter 10.1 LaunchFoglifter Press
09-2024
62.3 LaunchPrism International
08-2024
Workshop ShowcaseBrooklyn Poets
02-2024
Pride in PanelsSilver Sprocket
02-2024
Graduate ShowType West
10-2023
Hot Takes with Kernel MagazineLitquake + Litcrawl
09-2023
Type West Open HouseLetterform Archive
06-2023
Ink & Pixels: A Student Typeface ExhibitionType West
06-2023
Soft DefianceHarvey Milk Art Center
05-2023
Inspect Elementsthehtml.review
10-2022
ApatureKearny Street Workshop
05-2022
Would ThatProvidence Public Library
webart
04-2025
at the end of the earth, i find {}Crawlspace
05-2023
YOU JUST GOT LAID OFFThe New River
05-2023
ten (sky)Taper
04-2023
a world of spacethehtml.review
poetry
forthcoming
Epistolary LettersEnsemble Park
forthcoming
In Highly Connected Networks, There's Always a LoopYalobusha Review
06-2025
ode to many things i could have becomeFoglifter
03-2025
self portrait as chinese typewriterJAKE
09-2024
(9/3) dishes I want to eat againPrism International
07-2024
paper cranegodz rising #1
01-2023
reaching for the moonchill subs
10-2022
AutopathingSilver Sprocket
09-2022
on days like today i dream of futures pastKernel
06-2021
Venturing Toward Progressreboot
03-2021
Family DreamsVisions
fellowships
01-2025
Mentorship ProgramBrooklyn Poets
09-2024
Fellow (Art + Code)New Inc
06-2024
Summer FellowBrooklyn Poets
06-2022
Engineering FellowKleiner Perkins
06-2021
Fellow8VC
02-2019
FellowIDEO Colab
awards
06-2024
Galway Kinnell ScholarshipCommunity of Writers
08-2023
Albertina Tholakele Dube ScholarshipMCWC
talks
08-2024
Making Chinese Typefaces! with Components!?!!con
08-2024
The Intimacies of Everyday ObjectsCausal Islands SF
05-2024
Chinese Type Systems11ty Conference
03-2024
The Poetics of ComputationCausal Islands LA
appearances
05-2025
Inside 'Small Batch'Phone Time
06-2023
Naive WeeklyKristoffer Tjalve
06-2022
Pride in STEMIEEE Computing Society
04-2022
GuestDRF Office Hours
retreats
research
04-2022
Designing the MetaverseFuture Technologies