About - Lan Zhang

I am a creative developer based in NYC. I craft thoughtful and playful experiences on the web.

I currently work as a senior creative technologist at Havas CX.

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Education

2018-2020

MFA Design and Technology

Parsons School of Design, the New School, New York City, NY
4.0/4.0, Graduated with honors

BS Advertising Art Direction, Minor in Psychology

Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY
3.65/4.0, Cum Laude honors

Work Experience

2022 Feb-Present

Senior Creative Technologist
Creative Technologist

Havax CX, New York, NY

2020 Nov-2022 Feb

Interactive Developer

GSW Advertising, New York, NY

2020 - 2021

Freelance WebGL Developer

New York, NY

Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum Contractor
Shanghai Power Station of Art Contractor

2020 Aug-Dec

Part-time Faculty

The New School, New York, NY

Teaches Graduate-level course: Critical Computation Lab

2018-2020

Designer, Researcher, Instructor

Parsons School of Design, New York, NY

Python Course Instructor
Hindsight Thesis Website programmer
Front-End Research Assistant for a data visualization product
Design Residency with US Holocaust Memorial Museum
Undergraduate-level Immersive Storytelling Course Instructor
Bootcamp Coding Teaching Fellow
Creative Programming Tutor Specialist

2020 Jan-Mar

Programming Participant

Recurse Center, Brooklyn, NY

2017-2018

Art Director

Publicis Worldwide New York, New York, NY

Art directed for the Mets, Urbanspace, Swiffer & President’s Cup
Worked on print ads, outdoor campaigns, digital campaigns, visual identity, mobile UI/UX

2015-2019

Freelance Designer, Art Director

Melt4u, My Lucky Tummy, Waine’ World, Surfin’ Birds House, Syracuse TNH

Worked on print design, visual identity design, UI/UX design, brochure/presentation design
Photographed promotional campaign/event materials

Workshops/Peformances

2020 May

Hack(Comedy) Talk

Hindsight Parsons Design & Technology Thesis Show, New York

2020 March

Hack(Comedy) Performance

CultureHub Re-Fest, LaMama Experimental Theater, New York

2020 March

“Natural Language Processing with Python” Dorkshop Workshop

Parsons School of Design, New York, NY

2019 Nov

Performing with “Hitchhiker” Performance

Babycastles, New York, NY

2019 August

“Body Fun Jewelry Making” Dorkshop Workshop

Parsons School of Design, New York, NY

2019 Aug

Advanced Processing: Object, Class and Particle System Elective Workshop

Parsons School of Design, New York, NY

2017 May

S.I. Newhouse Advertising Gallery Exhibition

Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY

Awards/Recognitions

2022

Fast Company Innovation by Design Awards in the Apps and Games category

2022

Cannes Lion - Silver Lion

2021

Cooper Hewitt “Activating Smithsonian Open Access program” winner team

2021

Power Station of Art - Emerging Curators Project 2O2Online winner team

2021

PRINT Award Interaction Deisgn Silver

2021

Indigo Award Interaction Design category - Gold & Silver Winners

2021

Art and Machine II International Symposium

2020

Parsons Commencement Student Speaker, Graduate Design Research Fund, Dean's Scholarship

2017

AAF National Student Advertising Competition Northeast Regional Winner

2016

Graphis New Talent Advertising Award - 2 Silver, 2 Merit

2015

Graphis New Talent Advertising Award - 1 Platinum, 1 Silver