Concrete Book

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aBookis _Seeing Yourself

Book p/Arts-a _Layered

Book p/Arts-b _Layered-Dynamic

Book p/Arts-c _Layered-Dynamic-Belongingness

Book p/Arts-d _Layered-Dynamic-Belongingness-Deconstruction

C/ment Book _Trial 1

C/ment Book _Trial 2

C/ment Book _Final Book

Final Project _Seeing the Truth

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aBookis Seeing Yourself

Book can be a kind of media to build connections between author and readers. Book is a container to accommodate contents, sometimes interactively. In this book, I tried to recover the traditional form of "a book". A reflective material is used for the interactive content that I want to achieve. According to the name of the book, readers can see from themselves through the image in the mirror-like surface and their way of observation.

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Book p/Arts-a

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Layered Stack of layers. interaction within overlapped layers. Different layers can be defined by outlines, but also transparency of overlapped area.


Book p/Arts-b

Layered - Dynamic Overlapped area is freely but unstably belonging to different layers. The uncertainty of its belongingness provides a dynamic property of overlapped area. Beyond that, each layer has its own color, texture and orientation. The shape, color and texture of overlapped area change along with layers’ relative position.

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Overlapped letter belongs to both words as either the first letter or the last letter. Plus, they are parts of the whole word “belongingness�. There are three layers of words overlapping with each other. Their movement response to their belongingness.

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Layered - Dynamic - Belongingness

Book p/Arts-c


The relationship between parts and whole shows hierarchy (layer). The process of deconstruction changes the belongingness of each part. The interaction within layers reflects the dynamic of overlapped area.

Book p/Arts-d

Layered - Dynamic - Belongingness - Deconstruction

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C/ment Book_ trial 1 Material: wood cover vellum printing white/pink felt Photography was my main strategy to document our event at Thomas' house. Photos printed on vellum are both translucent and fragile. Felt are used for protecting photos, providing readera the feeling of sweet memorry and cautiousness.


Thomas opened the door of his house for us, but also opened the door of book design and his experience. Layers of doors means the richiness of what we have harvested. Disoriented doors refers to our complicated feeling about both complex design theory and Thomas' experience.

C/ment Book_ trial 2 Letter Book 9


C/ment Book_ Final Book 10


This final book defines "book "as a more interactive and spatical media to build the connection inbetween readers and me. Inherited from the idea of trial 2, each door lockes a space and they are arranged in different orientation. The experience of opening every door in this book provides people with my sweet memory and disordered feeling. Finally readers will focus on the tiny picture of Thomas.

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Two public incidents prompting national outrage have dominated Chinese social media this week: one is a scandal that took place at a Shanghai kindergarten; the other is a children abuse scandal happened in RYB Kindergarten, Beijing. Recently, multiple parents discovered needle marks on their children’s bodies. According to some of these parents’ accounts to media outlets, their children later said that they had been injected with unidentified substances, were given unidentified white pills after lunch every day, and had been forced to stand naked as a punishment. Some parents even alleged that their children suffered sexual molestation. In that Shanghai kindergarten, parents had acquired video footage of teachers beating toddlers and force-feeding them wasabi. 12

The latest Beijing scandal added more fuel to the social media explosion. Thousands of netizens sharply criticized RYB Education and questioned the general situation of China’s kindergartens. What has made the Chinese public even more furious is the Chinese authorities’ poor reaction. So far, the Beijing police has detained a 22-yearold teacher “on suspicion of mistreating persons in her care,” without confirming or denying any of the allegations above. Nor did the police release the closed-circuit video to the parents, as the public has been demanding. In addition, Chinese censors have been fiercely deleting all related information about the scandal on Chinese social media. Thousands of commentaries and articles posted by Chinese citizens, as well as a series of Chinese media reports, were deleted within hours. Despite that, Chinese netizens have reposted their opinions again and again.

Final Project_seeing the truth

Mylar

Red Plastic Papper

Black Cardboard

Series 1: Transformation of exclamation mark from forbidden page in social media. Different patterns are cut on three different materials. Random combination of three materials results in 3D, translucent and complex new patterns.


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Series 2: Transformation of "404 not found" website page. Three materials.

Mylar

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Red Plastic Papper

Black Cardboard


Series 3: Composition of exclamation mark with scroll screen, showing a gun with bullets and boom, refers to people's bravely fighting for truth. Series 4: 16 sayings about truth are extracted f ro m N e w Y o rk T i m e s ' " T r u th Campaign". There is always truth behind the appearances. Every news has its purpose behind it. More and more people choose to believe in themselves.

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