elaine chen

art director - ux designer - writer - illustrator - animator - painter - sewist
  • About me
  • Bibliography
    • Summerwood / Winterwood
    • The Good Brother
February 18, 2020

Summerwood/Winterwood

Oh hey, it’s been a while. I wrote another book.

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April 30, 2016

Asparagus say hi!

After years of saying “I could totally do that”, I finally designed a desktop wallpaper for Smashing Magazine.

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April 5, 2016

Neurodiversity

I wanted to get something to promote autism acceptance and neurodiversity, but everything I saw online is a) blue, b) emblazoned with the puzzle piece symbol or c) flat-out ugly. So I made my own design.

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August 5, 2015

The Good Brother

Oh yeah, I wrote a book.

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June 5, 2015

Question block cut & sew

I wanted to make a plush question block as a baby gift for a friend who’s a Super Mario fan.

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November 16, 2014

Visual design 101

Last week I had the privilege of dropping in on a friend’s comp sci class at U of T to talk about visual design, as well as give design feedback on the apps they were building.

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Summary

Elaine Chen (E. L. Chen)
elaine[AT]elainechen.com

Senior designer at a major Canadian financial institution, working on online banking. Previously I was an art director at SapientNitro and created animations and interactive experiences for the Ontario Science Centre.

I'm also the author of the YA fantasy novels The Good Brother and Summerwood/Winterwood.

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  • Awards and honours (1)
  • Craft (6)
  • Design (3)
  • Fabric design (12)
  • Fine art (2)
  • IA (1)
  • Illustration (20)
  • Mobile (2)
  • Presentations (2)
  • Press (1)
  • Shop (13)
  • Web (3)
  • Writing (6)

Recent Posts

  • Summerwood/Winterwood February 18, 2020
  • Asparagus say hi! April 30, 2016
  • Neurodiversity April 5, 2016
  • The Good Brother August 5, 2015
  • Question block cut & sew June 5, 2015

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Where does mucus come from?

An animation created using an Ontario Science Centre podcast as the soundtrack.

Autism Checklist


I receive a lot of requests for these illustrations, so I’ve released the PDF here.

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    • The Good Brother

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