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Since I was young, I've loved drawing, graphic design, playing instruments, dancing, and so much more. Here's a glimpse inside my creative world.

UI design

Full-length homepage design for the Innovation Hub: a campus hero image, blog, how we design, impact numbers, highlighted works and a contact section.
A streaming-service style banner titled Sylvia's China Chronicles: Sylvia on a wooden swing by a pond, with snowy mountains in the distance.

Data visualization

Hand-drawn data postcard: three bunches of soft watercolour flowers in blue, yellow and pink, one bunch per day, growing from green hills beside a vertical scale from 10 to 23.
Dot density map of Toronto neighbourhoods, each dot 25 people who speak a Chinese language at home in 2016. Cantonese (red) clusters in Agincourt and Milliken, Mandarin (teal) in Willowdale East and downtown.
Diverging bar chart of 33 Toronto neighbourhoods by how far they lean from a 50/50 Mandarin and Cantonese split: 24 lean Mandarin, led by Bay Street Corridor at 84%, and 9 lean Cantonese, led by Greenwood-Coxwell at 85%.

Graphic design

Magazine page with a bold blue PEOPLE OF THE FUTURE headline over high-contrast pink and white photos of models, labelled Music Archivist and Factory Worker.Facing page: four models in blue and green tones posed against lockers, labelled AI Human and Tech Expert.
A grainy, deep-red tinted photo of a campus building. Scattered italic words read Events, Workshops, Socials, Gala, Conference, asking students what they want from BISA in 2026–2027.
Pink pixel-art poster: a whale in a top hat holding a giant music note, inviting students to the Bayview Music Council kickoff.
Blue and orange event poster for coconnect!, a pre-exam destress event with free boba, snacks and a gift card raffle.
Cream and deep-red recruitment post for the Faculty of Information badminton intramural team: slanted red bars cut through line drawings of rackets, shuttlecocks and a net, with the call to join the team every Tuesday evening.
A dreamy lavender poster: a pink octopus holding a white sweet-pea flower over ocean waves, with vertical serif titles and a short poem.

Illustration

Painted portrait of a girl with a short black bob in a yellow T-shirt, adjusting a blue helmet against a deep blue background.
Three girls in cozy winter clothes playing keyboard, guitar and bass under falling snow, with the hand-lettered greeting Have a Wistful Christmas!
Two round faces on a blue sticker: exhausted during exam season, sparkly-eyed after exams.
Orange and pink milk-carton sticker branded UDesign, University of Toronto creative design club, est. 2011.