ERIC BAO
is pursuing a BFA in Graphic Design at Pratt Institute

Previously at:
Architecture (Virgil Abloh Archive)
Takeda Pharmaceutical

Resume available upon request

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I'm Eric, a New York-based designer creating the unseen, made visible through typography, motion, code, and in-depth research. 

Constantly in search of my next interesting read, shoot me a recommendation. View my published research below:

Bao, E., & A.J. Naddaff. (2023) "Assimilation of anti-ideological motifs from Underground Comics into mainstream media: a Case of the Boys."

Bao, E. (2023)  "Piece de Resistance of the Free Press: Social, Political, and Economic Protest in French Independent Comics Post-1968 Movement."


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Semantic Echoes


Risograph, Editorial
Spring 2025


Advised by Margarita Barrios-Ponce for Graphic Design 1 @ Northeastern University Semantic Echoes is a book of 35 postcards, based on 35 of the Webster Dictionary Word-of-the-Day’s, which seek to challenge how we perceive the English language.

Using the three axes of VAD Analysis, a concept borrowed from Computational Linguistics, these postcards quantify the emotional perception of words through three scales: Valence, the positivity or negativity of the emotion; Arousal, the intensity of the emotion, and Dominance, the sense of control or power over the emotion.  Using these dimensions, each scale dictates the form of the animation.

These dynamic abstractions seek to visualize the strong tonal nuances of the English Language using a method often associated with artificial intelligence. 










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