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SHE ENJOYS EXPLORING THE COEXISTENCE OF SIMPLICITY AND COMPLEXITY, FUNCTIONALISM AND ORNAMENTALISM. HER CURIOSITIES OFTEN OSCILLATE BETWEEN MULTIDISCIPLINARY THINKING AND VISUAL REPRESENTATION. / MANKUN GUO IS A VISUAL COMMUNICATOR WHO RECENTLY GRADUATED FROM RISD. SHE ENJOYS EXPLORING THE COEXISTENCE OF SIMPLICITY AND COMPLEXITY, FUNCTIONALISM AND ORNAMENTALISM. HER CURIOSITIES OFTEN OSCILLATE BETWEEN MULTIDISCIPLINARY THINKING AND VISUAL REPRESENTATION. / MANKUN GUO IS A VISUAL COMMUNICATOR WHO RECENTLY GRADUATED FROM RISD. SHE ENJOYS EXPLORING THE COEXISTENCE OF SIMPLICITY AND COMPLEXITY, FUNCTIONALISM AND ORNAMENTALISM. HER CURIOSITIES OFTEN OSCILLATE BETWEEN MULTIDISCIPLINARY THINKING AND VISUAL REPRESENTATION. / MANKUN GUO IS A VISUAL COMMUNICATOR WHO RECENTLY GRADUATED FROM RISD. SHE ENJOYS EXPLORING THE COEXISTENCE OF SIMPLICITY AND COMPLEXITY, FUNCTIONALISM AND ORNAMENTALISM. 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SHE ENJOYS EXPLORING THE COEXISTENCE OF SIMPLICITY AND COMPLEXITY, FUNCTIONALISM AND ORNAMENTALISM. HER CURIOSITIES OFTEN OSCILLATE BETWEEN MULTIDISCIPLINARY THINKING AND VISUAL REPRESENTATION. / MANKUN GUO IS A VISUAL COMMUNICATOR WHO RECENTLY GRADUATED FROM RISD. SHE ENJOYS EXPLORING THE COEXISTENCE OF SIMPLICITY AND COMPLEXITY, FUNCTIONALISM AND ORNAMENTALISM. HER CURIOSITIES OFTEN OSCILLATE BETWEEN MULTIDISCIPLINARY THINKING AND VISUAL REPRESENTATION. / MANKUN GUO IS A VISUAL COMMUNICATOR WHO RECENTLY GRADUATED FROM RISD. SHE ENJOYS EXPLORING THE COEXISTENCE OF SIMPLICITY AND COMPLEXITY, FUNCTIONALISM AND ORNAMENTALISM. HER CURIOSITIES OFTEN OSCILLATE BETWEEN MULTIDISCIPLINARY THINKING AND VISUAL REPRESENTATION. / MANKUN GUO IS A VISUAL COMMUNICATOR WHO RECENTLY GRADUATED FROM RISD. SHE ENJOYS EXPLORING THE COEXISTENCE OF SIMPLICITY AND COMPLEXITY, FUNCTIONALISM AND ORNAMENTALISM. 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SHE ENJOYS EXPLORING THE COEXISTENCE OF SIMPLICITY AND COMPLEXITY, FUNCTIONALISM AND ORNAMENTALISM. HER CURIOSITIES OFTEN OSCILLATE BETWEEN MULTIDISCIPLINARY THINKING AND VISUAL REPRESENTATION. /

RISD Degree Project exploring memory between human and technology.

05/22

EDITORIAL

Theme of 2022: What’s in a name?

01/22

TYPE DESIGN

Variable type family  with extensive weight and optical sizes.

03/22

3D ANIMATION

On-going experiment explorign subjectivity and objectivity.

08/21

MULTIMEDIA

Installation and animations for the launch of Nike Flyease shoes at Nike House of Innovation in Shanghai and Paris.

08/23

IDENTITY

Music tour visual for singer and composer, Chris James,
A series of visual researches questioning the existence of color white.

04/22

IDENTITY

Identity design and curation for RISD Senior Show 2022

03/22

CODING

Explore voice as a medium of expressing emotions beyond language.

11/21

TYPE DESIGN

An experimental typeface exploring form and legibility.

12/22

IDENTITY

Brand system for a seed-stage technology company working to facilitate sustainable abundance.

10/20

INDENTITY

Rebranding of  Belgian contemporary art show in Shanghai

11/22

WEB DESIGN

Commisioned project. A plateform for legal services enabling companies to hire flexible legal talent

ON THE PAST, PRESENT, FUTURE OF THE PAST


CATAGORY: Experimental
DATE:  05/22
RISD Degree Project 2022,
Advised by Paul Soulellis

AWARD: NewOne Award, Graduate360° Graduation Design Award


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On The Past/ Present / Future of The Past invites an improvisation of memory between humans and technology. It studies how we interact with memories and how engagement has shifted in the digital realm. It is inspired by experiences with my father lacking physical documentation and the later craziness of recording everything out of amends, until I realized how the endless recording completely ruined my intimate engagement with the past. With the analysis of my past and insight research of memory itself, I took writing and visual prose as a response to what I experienced, observed, and pondered.
        The first mode, The Past, uncovers a memoir of my father and a comprehension of pure memory recall. The second mode, The Present, compares different methods of recording to see how they affect the engagement with memories. The third mode, The Future, speculates on potential issues lurking behind the perfect vision of recording everything. With all my practices，I sought to unfold a resonance space that enables a comprehension of memories, a listening of the self, and a negotiation of technologies under critical views. This, in turn, may shape our next engagement with the old days, the todays, and the tomorrows.
         This project, additionally, is an experiment with a new design approach, where words serve as a guiding basis for reflection and visuals act as a rhetorical approach to content. Visual language is like a window that empowers ideas with forms and establish an intuitive emotion. It constructs different levels of engagement that allow audiences to appreciate the surface of visual or follow its direction to enter the inner territory.



Process Book

A documentation of thinking process.
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MODE 1__Part 1
THE PAST_A Memoir
The first project is a memoir about my father. I traced our shared experiences during his lifetime and as an attempt at understanding how memory works. The very initial practice starts with writing. Yet the process is difficult for me as I found it hard to retrace the past in a linear order. While recalling one memory, some others could materialize out of nowhere and take up residence in my thoughts. After the struggling process, I presented those arbitrary intrusions as fragmented words and visual forms. They are printed in fabric, ready to be refolded and ravaged. Each fiddling with the cloth is deformation and reformation of prior orders.

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MODE 1_ PART 2
THE PAST_Complete The Window

Recollection is a window that allows us to re-experience a completely different past. Colors are flowing; exagg-erated forms are complemented with sharp edges. The brain is constantly adding layers to it, compensating for the details in pursuit of complete exper-iences of the past. As an exploratory extension of the previous project, I extracted the forms of memory from the prior practice, deconstructing and reconstructing them into abstracted forms with details filled in. They form a series of windows, which are portals of not only entering my personal memories but also inviting the viewers into the territory and establishing associations. Memory is no longer described in a literal and precise words, but becomes an abstract result that invites participation, interpretations, and imagination.


MODE 2_Part 1
THE PRESENT_Everyday
It was a month-long journaling practice. Following the activity, I attempted to reflect on it and uncover a semblance of memory unity that existed in everyday life. Interestingly, I discovered that I frequently had a vivid remembrance of a daytime occurrence, and the linkage consumed a considerable portion of the review. Both sketching and writing are typically devoid of realistic representation, favoring imagination and concept dissemination. This brings to mind electronic records. Is fascinating imagination a thing of the past in the modern era?
MODE 2__PART 2
THE PRESENT_Traveling Diary: The Breakers

I employed a semi-scientific experimental technique in this experiment to assess differences in recording behaviors and their effect on individual memory. I invited my friend, Zhaochong, to be involved in this experiment. We traveled to The Breakers which is the grandest of summer "cottages" in Newport, RI, and a symbol of the Vanderbilt family's social and financial dominance in the region. During the trip, I asked Zhaochong to consistently take video recordings while I documented my experiences by hand-drawings. I ended up tying the recording results chronologically as two archive books in order to compare and contrast the two types of documentation. A week after the trip, my friend, Daisy, interviewed each of us independently regarding our travel memories. A following-up essay was conducted as a reflection of the experiment.


MODE 3
THE PAST

In the last chapter, I take a look at some of the problems that electronic records have the potential to cause in the near and far futures. It's possible that having too much information in our memories will work against us, rather than for us, by making it more difficult to recollect what we did in the past. The combination of dark, disordered pieces, and complex textures is meant to depict the overwhelming sense that one is being bombarded with an excessive amount of information. I have high hopes that the viewer will experience a sense of confusion as a result of this visual language and that it will lead them to think about the shifting nature of the way we interact with technology and our memories .