Designer Zipeng Zhu prepares to ‘razzle dazzle’ PCA&D

Zipeng Zhu’s website is a perfect pun: ZZ.IS.IT 

In it, he describes himself like this, “Zipeng Zhu is a designer in New York City who wants to make everyday a Razzle-Dazzle Musical. Before he ate cheese and spoke English, he was eating rice and speaking Mandarin and Cantonese in China.”

Zipeng Zhu will be a guest of PCA&D’s Graphic Design Department on Tuesday January 24. He will be presenting, “All About Z” at 11:30 a.m. in the College’s Atrium, 204 N Prince Street, Lancaster. The public is invited.

Zhu has been a sought-after New York freelance Art Director, Designer, Illustrator & Animator for more than three years. Previously he was a Senior Designer with Sagmeister & Walsh, New York. He is a graduate of School of Visual Arts, New York. He is originally from Shenzhen, China.

Zipeng Zhu was namedPrint Magazine’s Designer of the Week, for the first week of April, 2016, The magazine said, “Art director, designer, wunderkind and princess. An appropriate description for China-native turned New Yorker Zipeng Zhu.” The publication also named him one of “2014’s New Visual Artists.”