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Cecilia Runxi Zhang freelance graphic designer based in Canada.

She specializes in book covers, editorial illustrations and illustrated books. Previously, she’s worked in-house at the Onion, Forbes, and Farrar, Straus & Giroux.

She can be reached at cecilia@folio218.com

Education

The Cooper Union
Extended Program Certificate Type@Cooper, 2023

Parsons School of Design
Bachelor of Fine Arts
Communication Design, 2021

Select Clients & Collaborators

Penguin Random House

Farrar, Straus and Giroux

HarperCollins

Picador

The Onion

Forbes Media

The Howard Stern Show

Rodrigo Corral Design Studio

WIX.com

United Nations: Office for Project
Services

Human Rights Watch

Awards & Press

The Webby Awards
Honoree for Business Blog/Website
2025

Forbes
Best of Forbes Illustration
2025

The Kitschies
Inky Tentacle Cover Art Award Shortlister
2024

Book Cover Awards by Bridgeman Images
Winner for North America
2024

Forbes
Best of Forbes Illustration
2024

Print Magazine
50 of the Best Book Covers of 2023
2023

Fast Company
The Best Book Covers are the Ones You’ll Never See
2023

Literary Hub
The 139 Best Book Covers of 2023
2023

Literary Hub
The 139 Best Book Covers of July
2023

The New School
Legacy Award
2021