Meet industrial designer and illustrator from San Francisco, Felicia Chiao.
Felicia Chiao, a self-described “industrial designer by day and illustrator by night,” crafts drawings of humorous and fantastical scenes, packed with vibrant details. Her signature bald, naked protagonist seems to be a stand-in for all of us, taking in the wonder or other range of emotions in each piece.
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Felicia Chiao is an industrial designer from San Francisco who enjoys creating extraordinary ways with markers and colors in her free time.
Meet industrial designer and illustrator from San Francisco, Felicia Chiao.
The characters in Felicia Chiao’s drawings encounter surreal circumstances that tap into complex emotions.
Illustrator Felicia Chiao balances out her work as an industrial designer at IDEO with imaginative drawings rendered in copic marker and gel ink pens. Chiao’s fanciful worlds are populated with a repeating humanoid protagonist, as well as spirit-like black figures reminiscent of the symbolic creatures in Hayao Miyazaki films. The artist balances her charming aesthetic—cheerful details like daisies and friendly worms—with more evocative emotional themes. “Illustration has always been a way for me to destress and work through whatever emotions I’m feeling,” says Chiao. More
Felicia Chiao, a self-described “industrial designer by day and illustrator by night,” crafts drawings of humorous and fantastical scenes, packed with vibrant details. Her signature bald, naked protagonist seems to be a stand-in for all of us, taking in the wonder or other range of emotions in each piece.
Felicia Chiao is an artist from California who sketches the life of a certain bald man. The little man is melancholic but sweet, and his existence is dull and s
Felicia Chiao is an industrial designer, illustrator, and toy maker who is now also designing for the food industry. Originally from Sugar Land, TX, Chiao is a recent graduate of the Rhode Island School of Design and has a background in toy design. She is currently on mission to finish a sketchbook a year and to eat...
Meet industrial designer and illustrator from San Francisco, Felicia Chiao.
Illustrator Felicia Chiao balances out her work as an industrial designer at IDEO with imaginative drawings rendered in copic marker and gel ink pens. Chiao’s fanciful worlds are populated with a repeating humanoid protagonist, as well as spirit-like black figures reminiscent of the symbolic creatures in Hayao Miyazaki films. The artist balances her charming aesthetic—cheerful details like daisies and friendly worms—with more evocative emotional themes. “Illustration has always been a way for me to destress and work through whatever emotions I’m feeling,” says Chiao. More
Felicia Chiao, a self-described “industrial designer by day and illustrator by night,” crafts drawings of humorous and fantastical scenes, packed with vibrant details. Her signature bald, naked protagonist seems to be a stand-in for all of us, taking in the wonder or other range of emotions in each piece.
Meet industrial designer and illustrator from San Francisco, Felicia Chiao.
Felicia Chiao (previously) often channels anxiety and other complex emotions into layered illustrations depicting anonymous characters in a variety of states. The fictional works are connected to narratives of the mundane: a supine character floats in a bathtub, another grasps a coffee mug while peering out the window, and others sit idly. Despite their whimsy, many of the scenes evoke a sense of loneliness and feature a frowning face or dark, foreboding character looming nearby. More
The characters in Felicia Chiao’s drawings encounter surreal circumstances that tap into complex emotions.
The characters in Felicia Chiao’s drawings encounter surreal circumstances that tap into complex emotions.
Meet industrial designer and illustrator from San Francisco, Felicia Chiao.
Felicia Chiao is an industrial designer from San Francisco who enjoys creating extraordinary ways with markers and colors in her free time.
Felicia Chiao, a self-described “industrial designer by day and illustrator by night,” crafts drawings of humorous and fantastical scenes, packed with vibrant details. Her signature bald, naked protagonist seems to be a stand-in for all of us, taking in the wonder or other range of emotions in each piece.
