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👋🏼 Melissa’s design approach centers on forms follow stories. Her work is mainly typography-led, and she is passionate about designing thoughtful, conceptual-driven visual communication.
          Presently: kyiv ⤺ maastricht ⤺ zandvoort ⤺ amsterdam ⤺ kyiv ⤺ kuala lumpur ⤺ den haag ⤺ kuala lumpur
         

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Early in her career, as a self-taught designer she gained experience working across multiple design fields (branding, web, publishing, industrial design.) Following in which she co-led a small design outfit focused on visual identities and environmental graphics.
          After, (and since then) she has been freelancing as an independent designer. In between, she went on to earn a BDes in Graphic Design from the Koninklijke Academie van Beeldende Kunsten (KABK), Den Haag.

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Working and freelancing as an independent designer since after co-leading a small design outfit focused on visual identities and environmental graphics. In between, she went on to earn a BDes in Graphic Design from the Koninklijke Academie van Beeldende Kunsten (KABK), Den Haag.
          She spent her early career years as a self-taught designer, where she gained experience working across multiple design fields (branding, web, publishing, industrial design.)

m@melissachan.nl

Linkedin
Insta 1 ╱ 2
🖍️

👋🏼 Melissa’s design approach centers on forms follow stories. Her work is mainly typography-led, and she is passionate about designing thoughtful, conceptual-driven visual communication.
          Presently: kyiv ⤺ maastricht ⤺ zandvoort ⤺ amsterdam ⤺ kyiv ⤺ kuala lumpur ⤺ den haag ⤺ kuala lumpur
         

+ read more or less

 ▿  in chronological past to present order

Early in her career, as a self-taught designer she gained experience working across multiple design fields (branding, web, publishing, industrial design.) Following in which she co-led a small design outfit focused on visual identities and environmental graphics.
          After, (and since then) she has been freelancing as an independent designer. In between, she went on to earn a BDes in Graphic Design from the Koninklijke Academie van Beeldende Kunsten (KABK), Den Haag.

 ▿  in non-chronological present to past order

Working and freelancing as an independent designer since after co-leading a small design outfit focused on visual identities and environmental graphics. In between, she went on to earn a BDes in Graphic Design from the Koninklijke Academie van Beeldende Kunsten (KABK), Den Haag.
          She spent her early career years as a self-taught designer, where she gained experience working across multiple design fields (branding, web, publishing, industrial design.)

Unity Sans

graphic design
in collaboration with: Kyiv Type Foundry
year: 2023

Unity Sans was created to support Ukraine in rebuilding its economy and fostering new businesses. Designed specifically for the “We Build Ukraine” project, this typeface serves as a symbolic contribution to the nation’s reconstruction efforts.

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Hi! Melissa Chan is a human person/ graphic designer ☻

Working primarily on visual identities and typographic-led graphic communication.


Based in UA, by way of NL and MY.
Received her BDes from the Royal Academy of Art, The Hague in 2015.

Open to working together ↪ m[at]melissachan.nl
Connect ↪ linkedin, ig

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Cycling With

How do we present and fit all the topics of the summit celebrating women from all walks of life? Initially I illustrated the literal nouns with pictograms but it didn’t feel right. It wasn’t connecting with the story of the summit. I was stuck, and went back to the drawing board. How do I approach this from a fun angle?

Well, I love illustrating objects. The target audience are cyclists. Illustrating the essentials cyclist bring on them on the road suddenly made a lot of sense. CW added to the idea: How about including items related to each speakers?

illustration
in collaboration with: Annalisa van den Bergh
year: 2025

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