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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

AFETUS DISPLAY


CATEGORY: Type Design
DATE:  09/21


Afetus is inspired by a poem by the Polish poet Anna Swir (1909–1984), and in it she is speaking to her infant daughter: 
“You are not going to defeat me,” I say
“I won’t be an egg which you would crack
in a hurry for the world,
a footbridge that you would take on the way to your life.
I will defend myself.”
Anna struggled for many years and found it hard to forget how painful childbirth and pregnancy had been for her. The idea of a struggle between the mother and her newborn child falls outside the grand narrative of human experience. Rather, the marginalized part is the violence of unborn baby that exert to mother’s body from its inside. The typeface attempts to visualize the marginal motherhood. The glyphs are shaped to mimic the fetus' huddled position in the mother's body, while the sword-like strokes metaphorically threaten from the inside out. Together the typeface meant to imply the domestic violence and struggling of motherhood.