Xiaojuan is a Chinese designer and art director, living and working in the UK. She is currently a Digital Art Director at Bloomberg. Formerly she has been a designer for The Economist.
East Asia's new family portrait Picture editor: Catherine Phillips / Co-AD: Ben Shmulevitch / Interactive coding: Olivia Vane
Pocock's Pen Pals: The virtues of an unrepresentative sample Art: Mel Haasch / Co-AD: Ben Shmulevitch
Why cricket and America are made for each other Art: Maxime Mouysset
Parenting in Hong Kong Art: Terri Po
Art direction at The Economist
Year: 2021 - 2023
CD: Stephen Petch
A selection of the art direction works for The Economist. The diversity of the content is reflected by the diversity of visual approaches, design styles and contributors.
Want to know what’s inside a star? Listen closely Art: Owen Gent
The failure of FTX and Sam Bankman-Fried Art: Fede Yankelevich
The disappearance of China’s defence minister Art: Anthony Gerace
The manufacturing delusion Art: Timo Lenzen
I, robot scientist Art: Shira Inbar
“Nightcrawling” is a gritty, accomplished debut novel Art: Holly Stapleton
Europe’s energy crisis is very far from over Art: Hokyoung Kim
What is next for fundamental physics? Art: Daniel Liévano
The looming peak of the Omicron variant Art: Álvaro Bernis
A gathering of experts attempted to track how consciousness works Art: Eiko Ojala
A new, faster approach to 3D printing Art: Mike Haddad
Gene therapies must become miracles of medicine Art: Daniel Liévano
The rise of optical computing Art: Mike Haddad
A European consensus on how to handle China is hard to maintain Art: Klawe Rzeczy
The ticking bomb under Canada’s constitution Art: Ben Jones
America’s defence department is looking for rogue geoengineers Art: Cristina Spanò
The idea of “holobionts” represents a paradigm shift in biology Art: María Medem
Why vaccine passports are causing chaos Art: Albert Tercero
A Twitter account shows how the CCP stirs up ultra-nationalism Art: George Wylesol
Can plants hear? Art: Caroline Péron
Much of Russia’s intellectual elite has fled the country Art: Daniel Stolle
In “Chain-Gang All-Stars”, prisoners are turned into gladiators Art: Celina Pereira