AboutWork
CN:
33 Xiangyuan Rd,
Gongshu, Hangzhou

US:
696 S New Hampshire Ave, 
Los Angeles, CA

Contact:
jwang@otis.edu
itisjialunwang@gmail.com Jialun (Jaylen) Wang is a designer, multidisciplinary artist and educator. His design practices center around typography, emerging media, and social justice, and he has been the co-founder of Gallon Design since 2021. His creative endeavors revolve around typography and vernacular culture in both physical and digital spaces. His design practice fosters fresh connections between language and culture, the process of encoding and decoding, and the interplay of modality and semiosis. He is currently serving as a faculty member of Graphic Design BFA&MFA at Otis College of Art and Design.


Awards
2024 Founder Type (方正字庫), Shortlisted 
2024 New One Award, Merit award
2023 Paradiso Risograph winner, 2nd Place
2023 Font Star, Chinese Font Foundry Hanyi (漢儀字庫), Merit award 
2023 Student-to-Watch, Awarded, Grpahic Design USA
Young Ones TDC 2023, Shortlisted
Communication Arts 2023, Student showcase, Winner
Graphic Design USA, 2023 Students-to-watch
Communication Arts 2022, Typography Competition, Shortlisted
American Institute of Graphic Arts-Kansas City, A16 Winner, Contributor

Press
Slanted Magazine, #42 Books, ISBN 978-3-948440-55-8
Slanted Magazine, #40 Experimental Type 2.0, ISBN 978-3-948440-56-5
Communication Arts Magazine, March/April 2023 issue, ISSN 0010-3519
Boston University MFA Poster Collection
Seeking Plural Narratives

Talks
2024 Panelist, Mid America Print Council Biennale Conference, Kansas State University, KS
2024 Panel host, American Institute of Graphic Arts(AIGA) National Design Conference
2024 Speaker, TypeCon 2024, Portland, OR
2024 Panel host, Jersey Art Book Fair
2024 Panel host, Bushu Art Book Fair, Changsha, Hunan, China
2023 New One Talk, Vol. 10
2023 Moderator, Multiple Formats Contemporary Art Book Symposium 2023
2022 Speaker, American Institute of Graphic Arts(AIGA) 2022 National Design Conference, Seattle, WA

Teaching
2024 Fall, GDES 200, Grpahic Design I, Otis College of Art and Design
2024 Fall, GDES 220, Typography I, Otis College of Art and Design
2024 Fall, GDES 315, Experimental Typography for the Web, Otis College of Art and Design
2024 Fall, Guest Lecture, Typography III, Texas State University
2024 Summer, Workshop, Chinese Art Media Lab, Harvard University
2024 Summer, Instructor, Interactive Telecommunication Program Camp, New York University
2024 Summer, Workshop, Typographics 2024, The Cooper Union
2024 Spring, CM 501, Design Strategy and Design Softwares, Boston University
2024 Spring AR 883, Grad Studio MFA II, Boston University
2023 Fall, AR 884, Grad Studio MFA I, Boston University
2023 Spring, Workshop, SMFA Tufts University
2022 Fall, Guest Critic, Tufts University
2022 Fall, Guest Critic, Boston University
2021 Fall, Teaching Assistant, Boston University
2020 Fall, Guest Lecture, Beijing Union University, China
2019-2020, Teaching Assistant, Buffalo Center for the Arts and Technology
Exhibitions
2024 Ulises: Assembly, SMFA at Tufts, 230 Fenway, Boston
2024 Other Islands Art Book Fair, Pratt Institution, Brooklyn, NY
2024 Multiple Formats Art Book Fair, Boston University, Boston, MA
2024 Jersey Art Book Fair, NJ
2024 Sirena, Dig A Hole Zines, Tokyo, JP
2024 Tools of Trust, Leipzig, Germany
2023-4 TheWrong Biennale 
2023 London Design Festival
2023 Boston Art Book Fair, Boston, MA
2023 100 Poster Battle x Vision of the Future, Omarat Aliamani, Cairo, Egypt
2023 100 Poster Battle x Vision of the Future, Gallery of Fachhochschule Dortmund, German
2023 100 Poster Battle x Vision of the Future, Töllnerstraße 5, German
2023 HIDE SELF VIEW, 808 Gallery, Boston, MA
2023 Multiple Formats Art Book Fair, Boston University, Boston, MA
2023 RISO Rama, Corpus Christi’s Weil Gallery, TX
2022 Boston Art Book Fair, Boston, MA
2022 New England Art Book Fair, Portland, MI
2022 Otis Art Book Fair, Los Angeles, CA
2022 RISD Unbound Art Book Fair, Fleet Library, Providence, RI
2021 Irregular Blue, Project Space, Buffalo, NY

Selected Clients
Zhejiang University
Boston Center for the Arts,
FairFax Court, 
Boston Children Hospital, 
Boston University, 
Radical Curiosity, 
Radical Character, 
Hong Ru Gallery (Hangzhou, China), 
Buffalo Center for Arts and Techonology, 
American Institute of Graphic Arts (SUNY-Buffalo)

Education
MFA, Graphic Design, Boston University
BFA, Graphic Design, University at Buffalo, SUNY