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Johnathan D. Chen
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Visual

VISUAL DESIGN

 
 
Animated red travel routes accumulating across a Philadelphia street map

Location Lapse

Digital cartography: 4 years in a few images

Kinetic typography animating a quote about experimentation against falling rain

The Scientist

My first foray into motion graphics and kinetic type

Animated white Bézier curves and control points on a black background

Bezier Curves

Spline deconstruction visualized

Close-up of serif text printed on lightly textured paper

Typographic Voice

Storytelling expressed visually

Animated minimal line drawing gradually revealing a campus building façade

Penn in Moire

Buildings sketched with minimal lines and blended Moire patterns

Smartphone displaying a minimal typographic wallpaper on a wooden desk

iPhone Background

A (shockingly difficult) distraction-free background for download