This is an interactive book about Yoko Ono, her love & peace spirit went through the book, butterfly is the symbol as I’d like to describe her as a butterfly – dancing through life, light but powerful, possibly caused some butterfly effects. Back to the book, it was divided into three chapters of I/LOVE/YOU (inspired by one of Yoko’s love and peace campaign ONOCHORD in 2009, speak I LOVE YOU to anybody by a little flashlight, just as love itself). For the electric part, i collaborated with a friend studying industry design in Delft, he helped me to add the light behind the butterfly – in the beginning of each chapter, press the word in the headline, the page will be shining. Even a little experiment, we spent two days to work it out. For the contents, also asked some professional comments from Editorial Design. There are far more things than I thought to be done to make a qualified book, the execution of every details, the applying of innovation, the style, language, size, color, paper choosing and printing … When the book got done, I still had some more ideas, such as make an interactive poster or a DIY paper garment… but all of these developments were based on the first step, it is just the beginning.

Information Visualization

This is the outcome of a corss-disciplinary study about Index Design in last January, collaborated with a Lebanese girl and a Finland girl from Public Space Design, we made a data visualization demo based on our email accounts in three days. In the first day, we discussed and exchanged our ideas, and chose the topic we gonna work; in the second day, we made some drafts and tried different ways to range and visualize the data, while built some excel databas as the backup; in the last day, we brought proper materials and built the damo. We didn’t want the design looks too formalize, so used a cartoon image to show the data volume, moreover, as my teammates are from spatial design, there is a sense of architecture, is it?

Mirror Image

Mirror Image

Mirror Image

The Living Shadows

Had some ideas about shadow for the graduation exhibiton last year, we have discussed a lot almost every possibilities of how to use the shadow effectively to the exhibion, and we spent half day together to built a lovely matrix, but actually the concept was not applied to the exhibition, it was ended up in a ridiculous way. Now looking back to the concept, what i am interested is the living shadow, it is notl only the reflection of something but has its own life, even an independent existence, find it out or create it in a smart and humoristic way, still plays low-key but expressively.

These three posts are the outcome of the desing project for my graduation exhibition of maHKU 2010.

I picked up three pieces of jewellery which consisted a series of stories from my primary school education system. In my desing, I tried to deconstruct the straitlaced education system by means of some little fragments within itself, and tried to transform the collective memories into a personal perspective – showing a contrary meaning of the same old symbols, endowed the Red Scarf, Captain Armband and Little Red Flower with a vivid, humoristic and flexible style.

Black and white are the grounding color of the design, red, yellow, blue and green – the typical primitive colors which have been used in the uniform system when I was young were composed the rest of tone.