# Mae Chen


## Posts

- [One Must Imagine](https://maechen.net/omi/): One Must Imagine is an immersive, interactive experience that draws inspiration from philosophical works. The installation is designed to reflect the tension between choice, agency, and fate, as well as the contemplation of our existence and the endless pursuit of meaning.
- [Quick Scene Generator](https://maechen.net/quick-scene-generator/): Answer a couple of questions to create a scene, using your mouse and Enter key to navigate.
- [Game Propasal: Trash Can](https://maechen.net/game-propasal-trash-can/): This project began with a simple object at UCLA—a trash can. It questions not just how we sort waste, but why the system is designed this way. By prompting reflection on our everyday habits, the project invites viewers to reconsider waste, environment, and corporate responsibility. 
- [Graphic Design](https://maechen.net/graphic-design/): Business card and Logo Design
- [Window](https://maechen.net/window/): Window is an object that can interact with the space around it, regardless of whether there is an audience. It can engage with its environment no matter where it is placed.  
- [6. ADDITIONAL WORK - Optional 拷貝](https://maechen.net/6-additional-work-optional-%e6%8b%b7%e8%b2%9d/): The video utilizes a television-switching format to showcase some of my works from the last semester at community college to the first quarter after transferring, including recreations of works that deeply influenced me.
- [BABY DODO](https://maechen.net/babydodo/): Dodo is an academic clown. It draws inspiration from a character developed during motion class. Prof. Annapurna made me ponder our roles as academic clowns in specific scenarios. 
- [Typography Project: 'Only when I'](https://maechen.net/typography-project-only-when-i-song-book/): Bookbinding and Content Design for “Song Selection & Typeface Rationale” 32 SINGLE COVERS In this project, I combined the chosen song with the Bodoni typeface to create a visually cohesive and expressive book. The process involved an in-depth essay explaining the song choice, reflecting on personal connections and memories, and rationalizing the selected typeface to represent the song’s essence. The essay, set in the chosen typeface’s regular weight, was incorporated into a Songbook that features a series of cover designs and expressive typography assignments. Typography Animation: Only When I This assignment adds considerations of time and movement to the design, which […]
- [Love Letter](https://maechen.net/loveletter/):  This handmade zine is inspired by an experience of rejection, to process these overwhelmed emotions, I channeled them into this Love Letter as a form of self-reconciliation.
- [Theater Play 'the Gas Heart'](https://maechen.net/theater-play-the-gas-heart/): This is a graphic design project for National Taiwan College of Performing Arts (NTCPA) Class of 104 graduation production

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- [CV](https://maechen.net/cv/): |CONTACT meichengchens@gmail.com Los Angeles, CA | SKILLS Adobe Creative Suite Photoshop | Illustrator | InDesign Premiere Pro | After Effects  Blender Unity Logic Pro | EDUCATION University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)  2023 SEP – 2025 JUN Design Media Arts (B.A.) | Relative Courses Typography | Interactive Animation Orange Coast College AUG 2021 – 2022 MAY Liberal Arts (A.A.) | WORK EXPERIENCE UCLA ART | SCI Center  2024 JUN – Present Summer Program Teaching Assistant Student Worker | EXHIBITION Harvestworks New Waves in Art and Tech exhibition | 2024  [SUN]Flower Plasma – Project Assistant | Video Editing | Web design […]
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