Bowen Zhao - Graduate

About me

I am a multidisciplinary designer and visual storyteller interested in the relationship between memory, identity, and materiality. My practice explores how personal experiences, emotions, and traces of everyday life can be translated into visual forms through drawing, print, textiles, photography, and experimental making.Rather than beginning with a fixed outcome, I often work through research, observation, and material experimentation. I am particularly interested in the marks, textures, and fragments that emerge during the creative process, seeing them as evidence of thought, movement, and time. These elements become a way of documenting both personal reflection and broader human experiences.My recent projects investigate themes of stillness, self-perception, and the body as a site of memory. Through handmade processes and iterative experimentation, I aim to create work that exists between documentation and imagination, balancing conceptual thinking with tactile exploration.Alongside my design practice, I am interested in fashion communication, editorial storytelling, and cultural research. I am drawn to narratives that reveal the emotional and human dimensions of creative industries, with a particular focus on overlooked stories, personal histories, and the connections between people and objects.I see design as a process of observation and discovery, and I am committed to developing work that is thoughtful, experimental, and emotionally resonant.