Lian

est. 1992 Pop. 1

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Lian Fumerton-Liu is a designer who finds joy in making time. Her practice explores new pathways and tools that open more accessible routes to approach the world with curiosity and wonder.

Latest Trails:

Most recently the Design Director for Aplós, Lian is now taking on new clients and looking for exciting adventures. She is continually open to chatting, gathering, or collaborating (near or far).

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Leading creative concept development and end-to-end creative execution across brand campaigns, photography, packaging, digital and physical marketing, and collaborations for Aplós, a non-alcoholic brand reimagining the cocktail occasion

Design Director: Lian Fumerton-Liu

Photography, Styling: Sergiy Barchuk, Arianna Lago, Hugh Davison, Chelsie Craig, Lauren Spencer King, Matthieu Lavanchy

Illustrations, Renders, Iconography: Ben Denzer, Pol Montserrat, Neil Jackson, Eric Timothy Carlson

Freelance Design: Ian Keliher, Dougal Henken

Branding, identity, and website design for Brooklyn-based furniture designer Anna Dawson.

Design, Creative Direction: Lian Fumerton-Liu

Pulling data from ocean tide stations across the world¹, Tide Machine is a screen saver that displays the rise and fall of real-time water levels at a given location. As our computers rest, light and color shift along with time and season.

Design: Lian Fumerton-Liu

Development: Colin Dunn

¹ Worldwide Ocean and Sea Tide Predictions

The evolution of probiotics for human and planetary health for Seed.

Creative Director: Yuji Sakuma

Design Direction: Landscape

Design: Lian Fumerton-Liu

Executive Producter: Jen Zakur

Video: Daniel Hyo Kim

Championing storytelling and community to bring more relatable and diverse stories to the outdoor goods industry for ITA Leisure Goods.

Design, Creative Direction: Lian Fumerton-Liu

Founder, Executive Producer: Jade Akintola

Product Design, Art Direction: Symrin Chawla, Lian Fumerton-Liu

Photographers: Brandon Thomas Brown, Deirdre Lewis

A work-in-progress, open-source typeface, inspired by the history and craft of physical embroidery. The typeface houses 3 themed families, 78 letterforms, and over 100 unique glyphs and ligatures that have been revived from found needlework templates.

Design: Lian Fumerton-Liu

Guidance: Kelsey Elder

Letterform source: Archive.org

Developing a templated system of thoughtful and concise brand stories for by Humankind — personal care products that are kinder to your body and our planet.

Creative Direction: Sarah Kissell

Design: Lian Fumerton-Liu

A thoughtful and refreshing identity for Evvy; a team whose mission is to close the gender health gap by discovering and leveraging overlooked biomarkers in the female body—starting with the vaginal microbiome.

Creative Direction and Design: Lian Fumerton-Liu

More than just a 'vitamin startup'—communicating evolving principals and products for Care/of and creating a system of beauty supplements that work from the inside-out.

Art Direction and Design: Derek Chan and Lian Fumerton-Liu

Photography: Lauren Coleman

Styling: Alex Brannian

A physically-distanced, socially-connected #LearnFromHome science course for Seed.

Design: Lian Fumerton-Liu

Design Director: Yuji Sakuma

Executive Producer: Jen Zakur

5 weeks, 5 chapters, 4.5 billion years of Earth’s history.⁠ Tap here to start learning with Chapter 01.

Timeless brand and web design for WONU—an independent creative studio specializing in built environments and events.

Design: Lian Fumerton-Liu

Founder, Creative Direction: Jade Akintola

An artist book, crafted to showcase my family connections through time and space. As the layers unfold, each year is nested within the next. The outermost layer of the book starts in 2021 and ends in 1911—when my great grandfather was the first Chinese man to play football at Brown University. The center of the book reveals a small lotus pod with my name in English and Chinese.

Concept, design, fabrication: Lian Fumerton-Liu

"The other morning I tried to write letters to the birds, but the squirrels ate them instead." An experimental “variable" alphabet from A-Z.

ABSeed was created in NEWLY FORMED, taught by Kathleen and Chris Sleboda.

Published in Slanted Experimental Type 3.0

An ongoing personal project, exploring stick-and-poke tattooing through art, relationships, shared space, and trust.

Design: Lian Fumerton-Liu

Tattoo Artist: Lian Fumerton-Liu

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All rights reserved. Developed by Colin Dunn.