YANRONG TIAN


Hi!
I’m an Interactive Designer /
Gamification Designer / 
Graphic Designer / Photographer....

Design for fun!

I’m currently based in New York.



RECENT WORKS



SONIC GARDENINGMusical Interface Design,  Game Design
"Sonic Gardening"is an experiment, is an interactive interface designed for spatial audio experiences. I tried to combine spatial sound with modular toy block concept, set within the context of Chinese Gardening, which also share similar characteristics of “flow” and “temporal disapperance”

2024.9-2025.6
Individual Work. Undergrade thesis.





Let’s Jam!Musical Interface Design,   Product Design
Let’s Jam is a new interface for unprofessional musical expression, creating playful arrangement experience.

2024.7-2024.11
Individual Work,
with music expert help.




MEME HEALTH CENTER
Speculative Design, Web Game Design, Graphic Design
Using narrative web game design to explore the impact of cultural transmission media on human cognitive paradigms.

2024.4-2024.9
Individual Work





PITCH REHEARSAL
Game for  Learning
Pitch Rehearsal aims to make relative pitch training more engaging through the use of distanace-sensing controller,  empowering more people to explore and participate in music creation.

2024.8-2024.11
Individual Work




Evolution MagazineSpeculative Design, Design Fiction

A cyborg lifestyle magazine and a launch event offering a glimpse into the philosophies of life and death for posthuman evolutionists of the future. 

2024.4-2024.6
Group Work
Worldview Designer, 3D designer, Actor




GREENHALE
UIUX,  Product Design

GreenHale aims to alleviate urban residents' nature-deficit disorder by encouraging people to connect with nature through their sense of smell.

2023.9-2024.2
Individual Work




QUIET DESImmersive design, Videography,
Motion Graphics

Using the realism of the microscopic world and macro photography to create an illusion that appears as if it were computer-rendered, I conducted extensive material experiments and enlarged the results into multi-faceted immersive projections, exploring the relationship between the figurative and the abstract in a new way.

2023.2-2023.4
Individual Work
Xiao Hui Wang Art Museum, Shanghai.



Archive →→

Creative List of Recent Years


Playground
Other Projects→→

Some projects and experiments played with various media.


Courses Documentations→→

NYU IDM 2025






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