Photo courtesy of Maxime Harvey

Photo courtesy of Maxime Harvey

Photo courtesy of Maxime Harvey

Photo courtesy of Maxime Harvey

Photo courtesy of Maxime Harvey

aka YALE GDMFA THESIS SHOW

aka "is a graphic design show without hierarchy, in fact, it's a ahow without a title. 16 designers exhaust all available networks and reconfiguring existing materials with a new agenda." It's the first time in many years that the students decided to put actual physical work in the thesis show. To accommodate nearly 250 pieces of work in the exhibition space without overwhelming the audience with quantinty, the class brings together heads to come to a curatorial solution which provides thematic groupings of work at the same time allows room for free association and induced disorientation to come across.

The flythrough promotion video is the end product of the planning process. The curatorial scheming happened over the course of time using Google Sketchup 3D model as visual aid. Since the idea of transparency and anti-hierarchy is central to the concept of the show, it became natural to make transparent the process by presenting the video.

Curation with Kate Dewitt, Aurora Robles, Nontsi Mutiti & YGDMFA 2012
Flythrough Video with Harry Gassel

SKETCHUP SHIPWRECK

Screengrabs of 3D environment of Green Hall Gallery in Yale School of Art built for the purpose of the curation of Yale Graphic Design 2012 Thesis Show. During the process, the 3D model crashed at random moments, making the whole precess long and precarious.

POSTER ANNOUNCEMENT FOR BIENNALE DE PARIS

Silkscreen poster design for French avant garde art group Biennale de Paris who came to New Haven for a workshop. Typeface designed by Atelier Carvalho Bernau

Photo courtesy of Sandra Burns

Photo courtesy of Sandra Burns

from_to_: MFA 2012 GROUP SHOW

Designed in collaboration with Weiyi Li. First exhibition of MFA 2012 candidates right after summer break. The design consists of 55 envelops given to all second-year Yale School of Art students. They were asked to fill in the blanks following two prepositions From and To. The returned envelops with answers eventually became the title wall design of the exhibition, and the name and departmental tabs on the envelops become the labelling system.

IN BETWEEN: A CATALOGUE RAISONNÉ

The catalogue reflects a body of work that questions the notion of having one singular, static, or, as I prefer to put it quite mischievously, a straight identity in a globalized, post-colonial space where both forced and free-willed migration is the day-to-day phenomenon. The unbound loose pages induce moments of confusion and invite the viewer to counter, engage and reconfigure the book.

SHING-SHANG LING-LONG DING DONG

Collection of 15 sets of Reuter news photography feed represented in half-sized postcard strips. Each set represents a stereotype the world has for the Asian community: eating, sleeping in public spaces, luxurious goods buyers, mass game, etc. Watch the inspiration video here.

PHOTOGRAPHY LECTURE SERIES: ROBERT POLIDORI

Deisgned with Inva Cota

OPEN STUDIO 2011

Souvenir for 2011 School of Art Open Studio visitors.

YALE REVIEW OF INTERNATIONAL STUDIES

First Issue of a political/international affairs publication run by Yale undergraduate students.

STAHL: TYPEFACE REVIVAL

2011 digitally revived version of Rudolf Koch's Stahl from the 1930s. The vertical stokes in the original version are straight down whereas this revived version introduce curves to the vertical strokes to make the display typeface more legible when set in text size. View specimen sheet.

IDENTITY & PERFORMATIVITY

The structure of the book defies the conventional linearity of book reading. To introduce to its readers the chaotic and fluid nature of sexual identity, the reading of the book also takes an unconventional, non-linear form. Chapter 1 starts on the left page and continues on the next left page, and so forth. In the succeeding chapter 2, the whole text rotates 90° counter-clock wise and continues on the left pages. The end of chapter 2 reaches the last physical page (not numerical page) of the book where the text makes a 180° rotation and chapter 3 continues on the right pages from the bottom of the book to the front. Chapter 4 ends on the opposite page to which chapter 1 starts. The book starts and finishes on the same spread.

LITERARY IMAGOLOGIE

Poster annoucement for a literary conference at Fu Jen University.

GRADUATE INST. OF CROSS-CULTURE STUDIES

Poster proposal annoucing a new graduate program at Fu Jen Catholic University. GICCS is in fact the marriage of 3 exsisting, prestigeous graduate programs each of which is an established research unit of humanity studies.

DZIENNIK POLSKI

Dziennik Polski (Polish Diary) is a project initiated to showcase a collection of photographies of two personal trips to the Organization MONAR (Stowarzyszenie MONAR), a rehabilitation organization, in Poland back in 2005 and 2006.