Felicia Liang drew 20 line drawings of Oakland’s Chinatown storefronts as illustrative PSAs to support small businesses in this vibrant intergenerational and multi-cultural community. The design around “Oakland Chinatown" is an homage to the patterned crosswalk at 8th and 9th Streets and Webster. It‘s part of a pedestrian scramble, a traffic stop that halts vehicle traffic from all directions so people can cross regularly and diagonally. It was made in 2002 to increase pedestrian safety and the community's older population.
Felicia Liang is an artist, illustrator, and risograph printmaker based in the Bay Area, California.
Her work is inspired by the cultures and communities she’s around, as well as her own inner musings. She loves using color, experimenting with different mediums, and playing with a wide range of styles – from simple line drawings to maximalist compositions.
She began drawing as a way to tell stories, with a focus on her Taiwanese American upbringing and Chinatowns in New York and California. She creates to explore her place in the world and illustrate both the beauty and weirdness of everyday life.
