Graphic Design, VIsual Identity, Typography, Editorial, and more.
DURATION
3 weeks
Client
Cat-Nip Manga
Services
Visual Identity
Illustration
Printing
Cat-Nip Manga Cafe is a local cafe shop that offers Japanese manga, located near the National Taiwan University campus at the center of Taipei.
Opened by a friend's friend in their senior years, I was commissioned to create a visual identity system for the store sign, packaging, and prints.
DURATION
3 weeks
Services
Graphic Design
Editorial
Takenobu's work expanded the possibilities of graphic design by incorporating 3D sculptures and axonometric geometry into logo, fonts, and graphics. By building letters into sculptural models, his works possess a depth constructed by the architectural form of each blocks of characters.
I applied Takenobu's three approaches to Chinese characters: Geometry (幾何), 3-Dimension (立體), and Color (色彩). In each section of the zine, I built a architectural like kanji / traditional Chinese character.
DURATION
2 weeks
Services
Graphic Design
Editorial
A zine project for the "Images & Power" course in Erasmus University College, Rotterdam that dived into contemporary visual culture. Exploring what is real and unreal, this magazine/article features my piece on nature photography and the Japanese photographer Hiroshi Sugimoto's "Diorama" series.
In 2020, just three years before Midjourney, DALL-E, and more had massively started to generate images that could effortlessly deceive human perception, the website "this-person-does-not-exist.com" started using NVIDIA's engine to generate "portrait photos" featuring people who don't exist, and photos that were never taken.
Resonating this "unreal" or "fake" idea of AI-generated images, my teammate and I edited a zine on that puts together articles that discusses the "constructed realness" of photography. Furthermore, the zine includes my another piece that examined the Japanese photographer Hiroshi Sugimoto's works to discuss museum dioramas and nature photography.
The photos and people on the cover are made by artificial intelligence, thus these “photos” are never taken and these people do not exist. I worked with another partner to discuss the “realness” or photos and how it actually is a constructed concept. In addition, I analyzed the photographer Hiroshi Sugimoto’s works to discuss Dioramas in museums and nature photography.
DURATION
2 weeks
Services
Illustration
Editorial
A magazine about sleep science.
