{"id":305492,"date":"2026-02-19T04:46:11","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T04:46:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/305492\/"},"modified":"2026-02-19T04:46:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T04:46:11","slug":"the-design-of-genie-wu-proves-craft-and-code-can-co-exist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/305492\/","title":{"rendered":"The design of Genie Wu proves craft and code can co-exist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-block-key=\"xson0\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.itsnicethat.com\/ones-to-watch-2025-showcase\/genie-wu\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Genie Wu<\/a>\u2019s design \u201cbegins with a double take\u201d. When living between Taiwan and the United States, the designer learned that meaning is never fixed, it simply shifts and reshapes with every culture and point of view. \u201cThat habit of looking twice informs how I approach every project. I treat the world as layered, where everyday details, signs, and textures become entry points into deeper stories,\u201d says Genie.<\/p>\n<p data-block-key=\"9ce0b\">As a graphic designer working at the intersection of identity, type and narrative, Genie\u2019s practice bridges cultural observation and design systems, paying homage to the layered world they speak of through everyday details such as signage, texture and \u201centry points to deeper stories\u201d. Merging analogue and digital techniques, Genie explores how craft and code coexist in Form Revival: When Canvas Meets Code \u2013 and it shows in their work across InDesign, Illustrator, Figma and Glyphs; they bring an artistic attitude to digital applications. For Genie, it\u2019s important that their work connects culture in a meaningful, human way, evidenced in its emotional clarity, use of space and careful formatting.<\/p>\n<p data-block-key=\"dgqk7\">Finding grounding in art from the Renaissance and Enlightenment schools of thought, where proportion and light become tools of inquiry, these influences remind Genie to balance intuition with structure in order to bring intelligent and thoughtful structure to visual identities, always staying open to the cracks in the everyday where beauty shines through. \u201cMy influences mirror my way of seeing, rooted in observation, reflection and reinterpretation. Visually, I follow a lot of designers, photographers and magazines on Instagram, always keeping my eyes on new work that pushes boundaries,\u201d says Genie. \u201cIt\u2019s become a daily habit of collecting small sparks, textures, compositions, or bits of typography that feel unexpected or alive.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Genie Wu\u2019s design \u201cbegins with a double take\u201d. When living between Taiwan and the United States, the designer&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":305493,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[307,304,305,306,308,93,61,60],"class_list":{"0":"post-305492","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arts-and-design","8":"tag-arts","9":"tag-arts-and-design","10":"tag-artsanddesign","11":"tag-artsdesign","12":"tag-design","13":"tag-entertainment","14":"tag-ie","15":"tag-ireland"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305492","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=305492"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305492\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/305493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=305492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=305492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=305492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}