Xingxi Lin
- Xingxi Lin is a graphic designer, illustrator, brand designer and creative art teacher whose practice explores visual storytelling, editorial design, branding and socially engaged communication. Her work often combines publication design and illustration to communicate personal experiences and wider social narratives.
Alongside her design practice, she has experience in creative arts education, working with children and older adults through drawing, painting, and other creative activities. Her postgraduate practice focuses particularly on women’s bodies, health and identity. Through intimate storytelling and experimental editorial design, she aims to create spaces in which individual experiences can be heard on their own terms.
DEAR BODY
Dear Body is a series of four editorial publications exploring women’s lived experiences of Polycystic Ovary Syndrome (PCOS). Developed through remote interviews with four women, the project examines how the condition intersects with body image, weight, hair, menstruation, fertility and social expectations surrounding femininity.
Rather than presenting PCOS primarily through medical information, the project centres personal voices and everyday experiences. Each publication responds visually to one participant’s story while remaining part of a shared editorial system, allowing individual identities to emerge without losing the connection between the four narratives.
Through typography, illustration, photography, collage and experimental page-making, Dear Body asks how graphic design can create a more intimate and empathetic way of representing bodies that are often judged against narrow cultural standards.
An exploration of the experience of “ugliness” within PCOS-related weight gain, examining body image, weight, and the discomfort created by constantly measuring the body against societal standards of thinness. 176 mm × 250 mm (B5)
For Sale: £25
A personal account exploring body hair changes associated with PCOS and the tension between lived bodily experience and societal expectations of female appearance.176 mm × 250 mm (B5)
For Sale: £25
Looking back on her youth, developing PCOS at an early age left her confused external comments, body judgement but she gradually reclaiming the right to perceive her body on her own terms. 176 mm × 250 mm (B5)
For Sale: £25
A story about diagnosis, treatment and fertility, while refusing to allow PCOS to become a stigma that defines her identity or future. 176 mm × 250 mm (B5)
For Sale: £25
Art Workshop
A collection of creative workshops exploring art, craft and cultural exchange through hands-on making. Working with children, older adults and local communities, these workshops bring together drawing, painting, calligraphy and experimental craft practices to create accessible and engaging shared creative experiences.
GSA 2026 Moving Movie Poster Design Exhibition
A motion poster for The Bold, the Corrupt, and the Beautiful, centred on an illustrated female figure under manipulation. Stripped of agency and identity, she becomes a pawn within structures of power and benefit, reflecting the struggle of women caught between control, oppression and personal gain. Scan the QR code, then point your phone at the screen to see the poster’s dynamic movement effect.
《The Thistle》 Editorial design and illustration
The Thistle is a personal picture book inspired by Scotland’s national flower, the thistle. Through hand-drawn illustrations, photographic images, and editorial design, I present cultural symbols, human emotions, and everyday observations in a light-hearted and humorous narrative.
GSA 2025 Health and Safety Studio Poster Competition
For this Health and Safety Studio Poster Competition, I created a multi-panel comic poster that visualises the key messages of the theme “Security at Work and Play.” Each safety guideline is illustrated as an individual scene, making the advice clear, memorable and engaging for students across the GSA campus.
The inspiration for my character design came from an encounter with a group of seals in a coastal area near Glasgow. Although the beach was spacious, the seals always kept a careful distance from people. Their natural alertness and instinctive awareness of their surroundings resonated strongly with the core values of health and safety.
