Alien Symbols — Shiyan Zhu

Exploration

Word

Sound | Live Performance | 2025

Drum Kit

Sound | Live Performance | 2025

Sequencer

Sound | Live Performance | 2025

Westminster Abbey

Screenprint | 2023

Alien Symbols

Experimental Pratice | 2022

Birth

Illustration | 2019

Bubble

Editorial Illustration | 2018

Alien Symbols
Fall 2022 | EFS Design Studio
Advised by Jack Madden

Pattern
Experimental
Language

This project explores visual language through symbols and marks. I documented unusual
signs from RISD to the seaside, transforming them into my own alien communication system, mysterious yet familiar, like crop circles, awaiting future discovery.