Type and Graphic Design
Revue Typeface Specimen
22 x 29.7 cm
2025


Revue Typeface Posters
29.7 x 42 cm
2025
Giela Typeface Specimen V.2
29.7 x 42 cm
2024

Giela Typeface Specimen V.1
29.7 x 22 cm
2024
Morpheus Typeface Specimen
29.7 x 22 cm
2024
An Open Ending
with Farah Mirzayeva
29.7 x 22 cm
2025

Environmental Consciousness
with Xuanlynn Wang
28 x 18 cm
2024



About



Xiang-Xiang Lee is a Taiwanese type and graphic designer based in Lausanne, Switzerland. With a background in fashion design, she pursued an MA in Type Design at ECAL, where she began exploring the intersection between the structural logic of typography and the atmospheric language of style. Her approach to letterforms is shaped by this dual training and informed by her interests in performance, contemporary art, and literature. She treats type less as isolated forms and more as elements within a broader visual narrative.




Typefaces

Revue
Giela
Morpheus

Typefaces and portfolio available upon request.



Revue is an expressive, versatile typeface family inspired by the drama and typographic style of 19th-century theatre posters. Its 12 serif styles — Romans and Italics — are grouped by contrast: High, Low, and Slab. Each shares a stem width within its weight, exploring contrast, serif shape, and proportion to evoke distinct tones and dramatic tension. The family also includes a Grotesk, based on the Slab’s structure and tuned to echo its rhythm in sans form, and a Hanzi Slab, an experimental serif-gothic hybrid that brings the same sense of character across scripts.







Giela is a monospaced typeface designed for books and magazines, inspired by a love for Martin Margiela and as an homage to classic serif typefaces. Traditionally associated with uniformity and digital environments, monospaced typefaces impose a rigid structure that disrupts the natural rhythm of proportional type, creating a mechanical and regimented reading experience. With its condensed shape and high x-height, Giela exudes a sense of elegance, while its rounded serifs and smooth strokes introduce warmth and humanity into the typewriter-style monospaced aesthetic. Its Italic further challenges convention by incorporating swashes, a rare feature in monospaced typefaces, echoing Margiela’s ethos of defying norms and exploring complexity within constraints.










Morpheus, a modular style typeface, draws inspiration from the avant-garde fashion designer Hussein Chalayan, renowned for his conceptual garments and innovative techniques that weave deep, personal narratives. To capture the essence of this visionary, Morpheus combines futuristic, robust shapes with organic elements, reflected in its half-square-half-rounded strokes. Originally designed for text — a daring experiment and exploration for readability — it also has two stylistic sets—full-square and full-rounded, making it suitable for expressive display purposes.



An Open Ending: Visual Dialogue of Moments is a collaborative photo-text project shaped by the same theatrical idea as my diploma project typeface: Revue. I invited the stage onto the page. The phographer tells the story through images, while I respond with text. Rather than illustrating one another, image and text exist in loose, intuitive dialogue. Photography captures moments of light, shadow, and presence; text reflects mood, emotion, and perception. The reading experience is non-linear, open-ended, and shaped by the reader’s own rhythm, unfolding not in real time, but in reading time. Photos by Farah Mirzayeva.










Environmental Consciousness is a project by Xuanlynn, an artist based in Antwerp, and a dear friend. Her work captures the dialogue between the environment, the artist, and the artwork. She listens to the language of rust, moss, and weathered walls, translating them into photography and wax. In time, her pieces return to nature, continuing the conversation. Designing this book, I wished to mirror her approach. Its size aligns with her photographs; its rough edges echo the textures of her wax. Insert pages invite interaction, more than a book, it’s an experience. Woven with our interviews, her images, and her art, this book is not just an archive but an extension of her practice, a space where art, nature, and time converse.