Iris Xie (eye • ris | sh • eah) is a Chinese-American creator with a passion for data design.
She spends her time frolicking about the northeastern United States.

Selected Works

Tri-Trek

Information design poster documenting the activities and durations of three trips of increasing lengths originating from my residence in Providence. Investigated narrative beats, such as origin/destination visual treatment, audio experience documentation, and lengths of time each task took.

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Mapping Malaysia

Information design poster featuring 32 sets of data combined to create relationships that strengthened each other. Selected colors and typography to create a cohesive style, allowing the data to shine through.

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Severance Chapters 9-10

Narrative visualization of Chapters 9-10 from Severance by Ling Ma. Investigated how to convey information simply, using comics strategies, while not being too literal in image-making. This pantomime approach allowed for color, character posing, and deliberate prop placement to tell the story.

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Yale Peabody Museum: Grasslands

Developed interactive kiosk at Sitara Systems for the Yale Peabody Museum’s new Grasslands exhibit, showing the life cycle of grassland biomes and how fire plays an essential part in its regrowth.

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BananaCulture

An archival poster collecting pieces of information from the internet and archives relating bananas. This collection was annotated and organized to form a narrative on the subjectivity and various modes of humor in reference to a banana (referential, slapstick, Freudian, etc.) This analysis was mapped onto a poster (24x36), which also folds into a papercraft banana.

Produced a public-facing event with the mission of creating one very large banana made of chipboard. This banana was 40x the scale of the original poster and could fit a person inside. This community bonding experience spread joy and emphasized the lightheartedness and hilarity of BananaCulture.

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The Chrome Library

Link to Style Guide flipthrough here.

The Chrome Library is a whimsical community center that is inspired by fables and fairytales. Created branding system and accompanying style guide, with a poster showing brand elements in use.

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Yale Peabody Museum: Grasslands