Creative Healing

Role
Designer · Author
Timeline
September 2024 - September 2025
Team
Independent Project
Angled stack of white Creative Healing publications featuring black typography and green graphic accents.

Creative Healing is a research-driven publication exploring how creativity can support people through grief. Through art, writing, music, cooking, and other forms of expression, the book creates space to process loss, honor memories, and express emotions that can be difficult to articulate.

Rooted in my own experience of losing my father to cancer and mentoring others through Cancer Hope Network, the project reflects another side of my design practice: using visual storytelling to help people feel seen, supported, and less alone.

Read and download the full book here.

Two-page Creative Healing spread featuring a personal reflection on grief and creativity alongside a collage of family photographs layered over a grayscale image of hands.Open-book mockup featuring a personal essay on the left and a Spotify-inspired playlist titled "ray essentials" on the right.Editorial spread featuring Candy Chang's "Before I Die" installation, a public wall covered in colorful handwritten aspirations, with explanatory text below.Open-book mockup featuring editorial text on the left and a vibrant, textured portrait in purple, red, orange, and yellow on the right.Editorial spread featuring a photograph of a singer performing onstage, a continuous hand-drawn line, and an essay exploring music, grief, and emotional connection.Open-book mockup featuring editorial text alongside the colorful cover of "My Parent Has Cancer and It Really Sucks," a book about navigating a parent's cancer diagnosis.Two-page editorial spread featuring a black-and-white photograph of a couple embracing, accompanied by text exploring grief, memory, and storytelling through video.Minimalist book spread featuring the word "Linearity," a narrow column of text, and a continuous hand-drawn line extending across both pages.Dedication spread featuring a photograph of a man in a white shirt, a personal message honoring the author's father, Ray, and a thin green line extending across the pages.Angled mockup of the Creative Healing publication showing its white cover, bold black typography, subtitle "A Creative Framework for Navigating Grief," and flowing green line illustrations.

Other work

Google Maps interface featuring the blue Ask Maps button over a map of New York City.

Google Maps

UX Design

iPhone mockup on a pink background showing event filters and customizable calendar colors.

KTP Life App

UX Design

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