bianmengjing88@gmail.com
Instagram:aurabian
Hey there! I'm Aura, a visual designer now based in London. I specialise in exploring social issues through graphic media design. My work focuses on the mmarginalised and tries to use design as a medium to reveal the neglected reality. One theme I'm particularly drawn to is the concept of 'out of focus'.
I've noticed that a lot of designs about marginalised groups don't really connect with them, and it's hard to evoke empathy by depicting them too objectively or indifferently.So, I try to bring the 'I' and 'we' perspectives together to strengthen the connection between society and the marginalised.
Education
09/2020-06/2024
Nanjing University of the Arts, China Bachelor of Arts in Visual Communication Design-Information design
09/2025-08/2026
Royal College of Arts
Master of Arts in Visual Communication
10/2023-06/2024
Participant, “Yandu History” Exhibition Area Design Project, Beijing Capital Library
07/2023 Student, Creative Imagination - Art and Science Training Camp, Nanjing Normal University
Participated in completing the art and science installation design creative project themed on Yangtze River, involving group cooperation design and implementation
05/2024
Winning Prize in the 11 th Jiangsu Collegiate Computing Competition & Chinese Collegiate Computing Competition (Jiangsu Provincial Competition), Organizing Committee of Chinese Collegiate Computing Competition
12/2023
Third Prize (Design Group B) in the 7 th Jiangsu Province College Student Art Exhibition, Jiangsu Education Department
12/2023
Third-Class Scholarship for Outstanding Students, Nanjing University of the Arts
08/2023
Second Prize (Jiangsu Division) in 2023 11 th National College Digital Art & Design Awards, Organizing Committee of National College Digital Art & Design Awards
07/2023
Second Prize in the 10th China Visualization and Visual Analytics Conference Arts Program, China Society Of Image and Graphics
11/2024
Longlist in Arts, Entertainment & Culture
Information is Beautiful Awards 2024
Kantar Information is Beautiful
2025
Shortlisted Award in Information Graphic Design
25th Platinum Originality International Student Competition, China Academy of Art
03/2025
Silver Award, 2025 G-CROSS Creative Awards, Industrial Design Council (IDC), UK
In my first work, I attempt to understand the form loneliness takes in my life—not as an abstract emotion, but as a spatial structure that expands and encroaches. I describe this structure as negative space: a space shaped by society, environment, and information, a space that pushes the subject backward until the “I” becomes weakened, blurred, and eventually engulfed.
This negative space is not quiet.
It is filled with noise—the static hum of electricity, the sound of my skin against the bedsheet, the neighbors’ conversation, the crows outside my window. These sounds become the method through which I avoid confronting myself. I believed that if the world stayed loud enough, I would not have to hear myself, or face my loneliness. I filled every empty moment with background music, podcasts, or any sound capable of occupying space.
But over time, the very noise I used to escape self-awareness began to take over.
It replaced my thinking, dulled my perception, and diminished my ability to express or connect.
Eventually, I became the negative space myself.