Hey Jane!

Portfolio website

2008-12-31T10:22:00.002Z

My portfolio website. http://www.janeycl.com/index.php

Graduated!

2008-12-24T13:27:00.002Z

A very special year and special group of people.

Christmas Cards for OISTAT

2008-12-23T21:08:00.007Z

2008 version: www.oistat.org/newsletter/xmas2008/

2007 Version
2006 version

New Website

2008-12-02T09:12:00.005Z

http://www.janeycl.com

http://www.janeycl.com/loss_language

Interim Show

2008-09-23T21:19:00.016+01:00

Breakfast viewing

My flatmate Heeyoung.

Joana's Work 'Everyday Archeology'

Yiki's work ' Hide and Seek'

Andrew's work ' what happens when'

Ricky's work 'Music of System'

Sana's work 'The writing on the wall'

Paul's work ' The tourist's gaze'; Kan's work 'The shape of anger'

Jo's work 'Trace the memory'

Ashleigh's work ' H2Boring'

Andromachi's work 'The dream cookbook'

Juan's work 'less legible more visible'

Tomoko's work ' Laughter in everyday situation' & her chairs

Bryan's work 'slave to instruction'

Deniz's work 'Everything is going to be alright'

Harrish's work 'Thought hiccup'

Daizy's work 'cognitive dissonance'

Interim Show - my works

2008-09-23T21:11:00.012+01:00

(text on the banner)

LANGUAGE ECOLOGY
A Project Exploring World Languages In Danger of Disappearing

SYNOPSIS
“Soon I will go berry picking (an euphemism for dying). When I go, I will take our language with me.” Aunt Marta, one of the last speakers of the Tofa language of Siberia.*

The last two hundred years has seen the demise of many languages, and specialists predict that half of the approximately 6,900 languages spoken in the world today will disappear within this century. At this rate, we stand to lose a language about every 10 days. Why is this happening? Does this matter? By exploring different factors affecting language shift and loss, or what is termed ‘language ecology’, the project highlights the urgency of safeguarding endangered languages, and seeks to commemorate them before they vanish forever.

*K. David Harrison (2007), When Languages Die

Population: One (2-1)
Video

(text on the label)

This video is one of the two works in progress presented by Jane Liu during the MA show. In the 12-minute film, she documented the names of the 53 languages that have only one speaker alive today. In this work the sunlight is captured as a source of warmth to keep the languages visible and alive (breathing). Dependent on the London weather, these languages vanish as instantly as movement in the sky.

In the video the language names appear in order from east to west according to their location on earth, whereas Liu’s installation outside the triangle space (Population: One 2-1) presents the names of endangered languages from north to south.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u54o3SWmM5w

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Population: One (2-2)
Soil

(text on the label)

This installation is one of the two works in progress presented by Liu during the MA show. Her project investigates the decline of world languages today.

The text on the ground represents the names of the 53 languages that have only one speaker alive today (the order is from north to south according to their location on earth). The use of soil implies an ecological perspective, whereas with the wind and the viewers, the work will constantly change: the names will eventually disappear over time. Documented for posterity, this is a commemoration of the phenomenon of dying languages.

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After the exhibition, the editor of EP magazine contacted me and invites me to write an article about my ideas about disappearing languages. It is a new magazine about culture & literature, and is in the process of looking for contributors. I am quite excited and think it is a good opportunity to bring this project to the real world.

Show Preperation

2008-09-23T20:57:00.009+01:00

Working in Progress

2008-09-23T20:51:00.006+01:00

Testing at Project Space

2008-09-23T20:45:00.005+01:00

Tutorial with Anna

2008-07-22T20:39:00.008+01:00

Having been studying, contemplating and struggling over the past few weeks, my mind is changing again at the highest rate ever during this MA course. It is a good thing though, so far, since whenever I look back, I find my previous thoughts so naive and immature.

Today is the tutorial with Anna Gerber - I wish could have the tutorial earlier. She made very good diagnosis of my issues and concerns, and identified very precisely what my next step should be. I think I really need that - someone to really listen to my history and struggles, and tell me what is good and what is interesting about my practice. I guess I still lack confidence in my own judgment, and I always try to be too clever or too comprehensive before stepping further. This is a problem. After all, design is not only about thinking, it is more about making and doing, I should keep that in mind and putting more efforts on this aspect.

An useful advise from Anna today is, when it comes to defining the message, I should be careful about the difference between dilution and precision. I should also try not to overload the information and the methodology applied in my work, as it is important that my work can communicate with my potential audience.

Above are some recent experimentations.

Draft PGdip Fine Art catalogue

2008-06-30T22:09:00.005+01:00

I am currently teamed up with Juan and Tomoko to design the catalogue for our college's post graduate diploma fine art's degree show catalogue. They wanted it to be a 21x21cm loose-page calendar in a folder. Each of us come up with different designs, and these are my first drafts.

Paper Curation Project

2008-06-03T22:44:00.013+01:00

Our Design is a response to the design of the exhibition space and the art work

Daisuke's model

Daisuke, really interesting Japanese artist/designer/dancer/sculptor/architect...

Daisuke, me and Ricky

Kyu (Curator)

Graphic Design for "Rikrit Tiravanija; Tomorrow is another fine day, today as well" exhibition at the Economist Plaza. Another quite successful project. Absolutely enjoyable and interesting experience working with Curation and Interior Design students. We made a truly great team.

Concept

The shape
a. is the flat (the art work) & the ecoomist plaza (exhibition space)
b. is where the public and the personal collide
c. is the hotbed of new possibilities and connections
d. is the happening and celebration of everyday life

Everything else (the tracing paper, the white, the green, the case, the die-cut, the void…)
a. is to echo the spirit of the artwork, and the design of exhibition space
b. is to create a dreamlike, illusive experience
c. is an invitation for imagination
d. is a suggestion of life

Design Process

stage 1 keywords: out of context, overlapping, home, entrance…
stage 2 ground plan of economist plaza; cohere graphic design with the exhibition and
the spatial design
stage 3 first versions; decide to keep it simple, minimum, and whitish
stage 4 final result

Experiments 2

2008-06-03T06:19:00.001+01:00

I am trying to create images based to the keywords: Loss, Shift, Perspective, Evolution, Organic, Diversity

Experiments 1

2008-06-02T06:22:00.000+01:00

I am trying to create images based to the keywords: Loss, Shift, Perspective, Evolution, Organic, Diversity.

Tutorial with Luke

2008-05-07T07:21:00.004+01:00

Research Development

Visual Development

Naturalist

2008-05-02T12:56:00.003+01:00

Richard Downing, 'The Water Banquet', U-Man Zoo, 2003

Another approach to create my design is to look at the world from the perspective of indigenous people. Like the 18th century European naturalist, who "discovered" and "named" the new plants and animals and put on display in glass cases. I can observe the modern world using the indigenous people's way of perceiving, and put on display in the glass case.

Images of the endangered

2008-04-30T09:44:00.007+01:00

Suphan Buri, Thailand: Birds fly over drained rice at a rice mill factory

Photograph: Chumsak Kanoknan/Getty Images

Shishou, China: Pere David's deer pasture at the Yangtze river swan islet. The nature reserve, a wetland covering an area of about 68.66 sq km, contains over 1,000 Pere David's deer, the largest wild population of the animal in the world
Photograph: China Photos/Getty Images

Images from "Tactile, high touch visuals" Berlin, 2007

I am looking for images that give a sense of being "endangered". am thinking about creating a series of visual messages (photos, video, installation...) that evoke the "crisis of languages".

I am now seeing myself as a curator. What kind of artworks should I include in my exhibition? How do I arrange/design the space to give a totality for my project?

Some Visual Ideas

2008-04-27T11:42:00.008+01:00

Letterbox, Australia, 2000
This poster is to show how logos and signage are seen and represented by kids. (Folk design might be a direction, as it is closer to life and offers something refreshing than a more sophisticated design)

Philip Carter, UK, 2000
These photographs offers a graphic story of urban signage....(government-sponsored graffiti?)
Another example of folk design.

Pentagram, UK, 1998
The Australian Rural Mailbox

Letterbox, Australia, 2000
I might also touch on the subject of "Helvetica" as a universal fontface choice to discuss the diversity in design.

Rough Structure

2008-04-27T09:45:00.010+01:00

Babel Tower...When languages die, is design becoming the new global language?

I am really grateful of Wei-Wen's feedback and advise on my project. Her positive response gave me a "go" to dig further on this subject with more confidence.
What she suggested clears out for me most is the way I am to position myself in this project ( something I found quite troublesome and unsure for a long time), which is, to be critical and reflective, on issues concerning design, the world and the whole human being. I hope am not aiming too high in regard to my experience and knowledge, but at least this is something I find valuable, interesting, and worth pursuing.

With insightful hints from Wei-Wen, and after the short tutorial with Frank this Wednesday, I develop the rough structure of my essay.

Firstly I will be looking at the phenomenon of language death from anthropological, societal, and political perspectives.
Secondly, I will address the relationship between language and graphic design. Design is language / Language is design?
Finally, and probably most important part of my essay, will be discussing the significance of languages death to design practice.
Here is some initial thoughts that might worth discussing:
1. A homogeneous world view? Is design becoming easier? Is this a sign of crisis? Do we need designers anymore?
2. Lost of knowledge about the world => lost of creativity? Rethink about creativity
3. Lost of history & culture. Designer as cultural practitioner, what is our responsibility?
4. Tower of Babel: Does the lost of languages imply the surging of human pride? How to look at the rising role of design in the sense that design is the new “global” language?
Rethink about international style. I might argue that the diversity of design will keep human stay humble.

So that is the basic structure.

Since Tracey's briefing on our timetable for phase two this Tuesday, I realized that there will be an exhibit of work in progress on mid June. This is to compose of our research documentations and visual experiments. Realizing that I am not really a sketch-book person, I will try to use this blog to document my thoughts, discoveries, and visual developments. Long way to go, especially the visual part!

Disappearing Languages

2008-04-04T17:17:00.009+01:00

I changed my project subject again. Dramatically, as each time.
I hope this is a sign of progress. Like what Andrew said " Nothing is wasted."
I really hope so. As on the flip side, this can also imply I am too short of knowledge to support the other ideas that I came up with previously.
For example, simplicity, getting lost, hesitation, choice, design & art, market, exhibition, festival, spectacle, alienation, mindlessness...
All these fancy ideas come forward easily and welcomingly, but be overthrown and given up over and over again by not being able to articulate or visualize it.
It is a truly difficult job to produce something while having to write 3000 words to "inform it".
I need 2 years to finish this degree.

Anyhow, today, the deadline of our second submission of research essay outline, here is the subject that I stick to. "Disappearing languages".

According to linguistics research, half of the approximately 6,900 languages spoken on the planet will be extinct within our lifetime. The book by K. David Harrison, titled "When Languages Die" look at the significance of this issue. I thought about relating graphic design to this phenomenon, and maybe I can find some interesting materials and thus produce some images in response. I can also explore our own heritage of Chinese character under this framework.

At this stage, this is the only subject that I can have a picture in mind while having some theory or text that I can refer to and discuss about, and not being too ambitious, unpractical, and boring.

This flow of thoughts came up after I visited the "China Design Now" exhibition at Victoria & Albert Museum yesterday. I just felt an urge to see something Chinese after done all the readings.

And maybe, in retrospect, one of my more sustained interests in learning foreign language is a support to my making the right choice this time.

Am I catching up?

2008-04-04T16:28:00.005+01:00

Roland Barthes, Image Music Text(1977)

This week is all about reading, thinking, re-reading, and rethinking.
Vicious circle.

What I have read?
Barnard, M., Graphic design as communication.
Flusser, V.,The Shape of Things: a philosophy of design
Lefebvre, H., Critique of everyday life
Barthes., R., Image, Music, Text
Debord, G., On the passage of a few people through a rather brief moment in time: the situationist international 1957-1972.
Benjamin, W., Illuminations
...et cetera.

Of course I didn't finish reading any of those books.
But I think I have a better sense now about what they are trying to teach us, and what I am here to learn.
I guess I can ask less stupid questions now.

I am still very shallow about everything though. But at least I am quite confident about the core value of graphic design.

It is about visual language.
It is about image making.
It is about making your image speak and understood.

This will be the most important and fundamental lesson I need to learn in this year (Maybe this is a BA lesson?). Before I get a hang of this, I don't think I should be thinking about anything else.

Simplicity - Criticle Paper Tutorial

2008-03-20T13:07:00.010Z

picture from : http://greggsutter.com/mt/archives/manWomanControlPanel.jpg

This is the photo Frank showed me.

This morning I changed a large scale my research plan before having the tutorial with Frank. It seems like shifting to a different subject, but the fact is every idea that have stayed in my mind during the last 3 months all joined together naturally. I guess this is a good sign.

My interest now is narrowed down to the notion of "simplicity". This is the first comment I received from Tracey, our course director, during the presentation of our work on the first day. This is the aesthetic quality that I appreciate most, as well as something that is very apparent in my design work.

After reading the analysis of the beauty and the sublime in Kant's critique of judgment, I thought it would be interesting to look at the notion of simplicity from a cross-cultural perspective - something that I have been wanting to do since the beginning, but just don't know how to.

Simplicity, for us from the East, is related to a whole system of thinking. For the west, I don't know quite how to get to the core but it seems, from my recent reading about Modernism, Dadaism and Avant-Garde, that there is also a tendency towards simplicity, but through a very different approach. So I might examine the notion of simplicity, from how it is represented in art and design, to look at the different way of thinking. I might conclude my paper by discussing the nature of cross-cultural communication.

During the tutorial, I think I had a quite positive feedback from Frank. It seems to me he also found this subject interesting enough. But he reminds me some very important points:
1. I have only 3000 words to write, so be realistic! Narrow it down!
2. I need to think about how to visualize my research in my practice. He mentioned information design, or using photos to make comparisons. Ashleigh also suggested that I can present my research in different ways. Great advises!
3. Frank's last remark: are they really different? or are they actually the same thing? Um, I shall find the answer in my research.

I also thought of a title for my research, something like: Simplicity is sophisticated....
Maybe this is a good subject to do in a country which is known for its sophisticated culture...:P

Critique of Judgment

2008-03-18T16:16:00.015Z

I realize why I have been so hesitate for my research project. It is related to my issue about identity. And today I realize where all this crisis came from.
Yes, it is about the change of environment, life, culture...etc. All these have only reinforced this situation. But the problem has always been there. So it must be something about me, about the working of my brain and my personality.
I think one of the factors is "greed", or "ambition".

I am reading Immanuel Kant's "The Critique of Judgment" recently. It is related to our last general theory forum's topic about the beauty and the sublime. Because of my poor knowledge in philosophy, reading this book is a real challenge. Not totally understood, I am only overwhelmed to find how different concepts there are associated with "aesthetics". At least in Chinese, there is only one word for "beauty". Maybe this is why I got confused firstly. And because of the general use of this word in Chineses, I am quite doubtful of the value of "beauty" - it makes me feel shallow regardless how important quality it seems to me in my design practice. Because of this doubt, I become unsure of my studying graphic design. Is it just about making things look "beautiful"? Here I am using this term "beautiful" in a general sense. Reading the western philosophy reminds me that there are different levels of "beauty".

I guess if I am to become a designer, I should really treat "beauty" more seriously and critically.

It is also justified in this book that: the pursuit of beauty is for the feeling of pleasure; and the aesthetic judgment is subjective.
They seem quite common sense, but I just started to wonder, what construct the principles of my aesthetic judgment? Why are those qualities bring me pleasure? So I started tracing it down, and found that those factors and influences is very much Eastern (Chinese) way of thinking, and can totally reflect my personality. Just before I get too immersed in all the "western civilization" that I studied (and lived) recently, the understanding of this fact suddenly clear up my mind. I guess the greed and ambition to understand a whole large different system of knowledge makes me become confused, lost, and even doubtful of my identity and beliefs. This is what makes me hesitate and even to make wrong aesthetic judgments. Because I don't trust myself.

I think I am not far from deciding my research subject now.

Extrinsic & Intrinsic

2008-03-08T19:04:00.007Z

Jean-Pierre Jeunet "Foutaises"

This first tutorial with Luke was really inspiring. In addition to offering me such abundance of names, books, websites, films..., Luke also reminded me something very important: about the mode of my thinking.

When I explained my research interest on a mind map, the first thing he mentioned was to distinguish the “extrinsic” and “intrinsic” of my influences. At first I didn't take it too seriously because I thought I know what I am doing. After going through all the materials, he sort of summed up my current thoughts. Apparently, there is a quite "diverse" scope of my practice and interest, (or sometimes not so mutually relevant). But he suggested that now I should start thinking about my future practice more inwardly and from my perspective - the question is about what "I" want.

He later showed me the film by Jean-Pierre Jeunet "Foutaises", in which the director used a rather simple and funny way "what is that I like, what is that I don't like", to present a kind of personal manifesto. Luke saw me also on a path of quest for manifesto. However, what I didn't think of is, when it comes to a manifesto for myself, what would that be?

After a few days of contemplation, I sort of realized where my identity crisis and the sense of lost come from. All too often I don't think "from", or "for" my self. "Subjectivity" is something that I am not familiar with. I always try to find out how other people think and care, or how the y expect. When it comes to my role in the world, I usually start by thinking "how the world needs me?" instead of "what do I want to do for the world".

I wonder if it is that I have the wrong mode of thinking, or that I choose the wrong profession...? Or is it possible to strike a balance between these two while still being a good designer? What is good design/designer anyway?

I guess the answer still depends on how I think about it.

Peter Doig at Tate Britain

2008-03-07T15:31:00.008Z

Peter Doig at Tate Britain

http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/

Luke suggested that I go to see Peter Doig at Tate Britain after having our tutorial. He thought I will like it. So I did.

I do like the kind of dramatic atmosphere in his painting of the landscape. I like his heavily worked surface, and his use of colors of which sometimes nostalgic, sometimes romantic, and sometimes mysterious. I found myself easily get immersed in the vast dream-like scene of the wilderness.
I admit I am always easily pleased with the visual quality of an artwork.

To go further, I found the theme of his paintings quite interesting. Rather than applying the found objects directly on the canvas, like many of the post-modern artists did, the images from postcards, newspaper, photos often serve as his source of inspiration, or being translated to become part of his painting. So one can find that his content is close to surrealistic, yet set in a impressionistic way of painting - A bizarre combination! I quite like it, and I think it justifies his atmospheric style of painting.

For me, the more important quality of his works is his employing of nature and human as the main characters, where the contrast between the vastness of landscape and the almost dissolving figures creates a sort of tension, strangeness, and lastly, sublime. It implies an unspoken statement of the artist, which reminds me of always being humble and respectful of the environment and the nature.

Preparation for tutorial 3 - Reading the History cont.

2008-03-04T20:24:00.002Z

The Great Graphic Designers

Paul Rand

My first encounter with some of the important figures in graphic design history. What stuck me most when reading Paul Rand is his philosophy of design,
"Don't try to be original, just try to be good"; and his his view of aesthetics: " Good Design is Good will(and good will comes from aesthetics)."
These statements are so powerful that they totally resolve my long-term doubt and unease about the values of design. I realize now that "aesthetics" is the "motivation", not the "goal"; and that the responsibility of a designer is to "communicate", rather than being original. Reading Paul Rand has remedy my identity crisis as a designer.

April Greiman
I was firstly drawn by the movie in the "drive-by shooting digital photography exhibition",
(http://mislosangeles.com/drive-by_site/movie.html), which, as always, I am fond of the color, texture, and the kind of spiritual quality presented in the abstract moving images. Then I find out more about her path in graphic design. She is one of the first persons who embraced the possibilities brought by digital technology. Her open mindedness towards the evolution of the world also extended her professional horizon from 2D to the field of time, space. She even developed a new mode of working, which invites collaborators from different disciplines.
Looking at her successful multifaceted career gives me the courage to step out of the territory that I am familiar with. Her conviction in "immersion and integrity" will serve as the guidance for my future endeavor.

Preparation for tutorial 3 - Reading the History

2008-03-04T20:22:00.005Z

Discoveries from Reading the Last Chapter of History of Visual Communication

As indicated in my essay outline submitted last week, I want to read more about the history of design (in the broad sense) in order to clarify for myself where I stand from the historic perspective, the role and the responsibility of designer at our time. I firstly read an online version of the History of Visual Communication. (http://www.citrinitas.com/history%5Fof%5Fviscom/index.html). And the process has proven to be very fruitful.

(1) Firstly, I would like to say the online reading experience is very helpful for me in the sense that it provides more color images which can be referenced to and enlarged; and it provides direct links to further reference texts, which I found really convenient.

(2) First Things First 1964, 2000 Manifestos
My first encounter with the very important Manifesto of our practice. The manifesto is basically about reflecting upon the priority of our profession, and advocating a mindshift away from product marketing to an exploration of more useful, lasting, and worthwhile causes.
I cannot agree with the statements more, since this is also what I have been exploring - the application of graphic design to fields other than commercial purpose.

Following this idea, I browsed through a website dedicated to social advertising (http://osocio.org/). I think it is absolutely a good example of how our creativity can be put to good causes for the world. However, I sometimes feel quite frustrated on the thought of how little impact we can actually make through advertising or a social campaign.

In developing the spirit of first things first further, I thought of other possible means that graphic design could take to make a positive impact. Education? maybe it is another more sustainable function; How about the spirit of design? By this I mean the way design solve our everyday problem in a creative way. With this thought in mind I found another website "Design your life". (http://www.design-your-life.org/). It is a website by Designers Ellen and Julia Lupton dedicated to collecting ideas about applying design theory and practice to some of the basic problems of everyday living. I thought it is brilliant. And I am expecting to see more examples from our discipline of graphic design, since visual communication is supposed to be most relevant to our everyday life.

Preparation for tutorial 2 - Exhibition Visited

2008-03-04T20:17:00.010Z

"Breaking the Rules" at British Library
http://www.bl.uk/breakingtherules

This is an exhibition on the printed objects (books, manifestos, flyers, album covers, sound recordings...) of the European Avant Garde 1900-1937.
I am absolutely overwhelmed. Having been really interested in reading the history of art and graphic design ever since I retook my student status, this exhibition presented in front of me every piece I read in the book. So informative the exhibition is, one enthusiastic person like me still got very exhausted in the end. It made me to think about how I can improve this visiting experience from the designer's perspective?

Len Lye - The Color Box - at Tate Modern

Last Saturday I wandered randomly around Tate Modern, without equipping a critical mind - in the intention to identify the kind of "artwork" I am really into - through my instinct. I found myself automatically be drawn to a short film by Len Lye - A Color Box- a 1935 production of abstract animation.
I simply love his use of color, shape, texture, and especially the movement and rhythm that goes perfectly with the Cuban music. I think it becomes quite clear now what are the elements that drives me most.

A bit later, during my research about the history, I saw a short film on Youtube: the history of evil.
I am not sure about the content, but I like very much its simplicity and the funny way of telling the history. Here comes an idea for my final project to be based on the history of graphic design, and by the means of motion graphics...I am quite excited about this idea because it combines my interest in the history of graphic design, my intention to explore new scope of graphic design, and its potential to be applied to the educational/exhibition/administrative purposes.

Preparation for tutorial 1 - Reflection from last tutorial

2008-03-04T13:30:00.020Z

Since last group tutorial with Luke, I've done a lot of questioning about my final project and the research paper; and inevitably, the most important and fundamental question: the purpose of my study, my future role and my relation to the world. Finding out the meaning and the value of my place in the world is really important to me in deciding which direction I am going to take forward.

Following are the thinking process and research reflections that help me to see more clearly the picture ahead. I am very surprised though, to find how everything that seems unrelated at first place ended up leading me to the same direction.

Reflections from last tutorial

(1) Question about "Identity"
I have lost my interest in the "cultural/national identity" subject since I read an article 'Connecting the Culture(s)' (Loytty Olli (2007), Framework, No.7, June, pp.18-20 ). In this paper, the author examined the concepts of "multiculturalism" and "trans-nationalism" in the context of Finland, - a country that has a similar identity crisis as Taiwan. He referred to the book Imagined Communities (1983), which wrote about nations are made of ideas and aspirations, stories and beliefs; "We do not belong to the same nation because we are alike, but we like to think we are alike because we belong to the same nation."
This revealing statement led me to question the significance of my own identity crisis (yeah... I seemed to have a multi-facet identity crisis in the past few weeks). I wonder does something called "Taiwanese culture" really exist? Is it possible to distinguish Taiwanese culture (and its application in the design scene) from that of China? Or is it really important?

My answer is no. In the era of globalization, particularly, the so called national culture is only one of the many factors that constitute our identity as a designer or an individual. In my case, on reflection, it even has a less important role. Perhaps it would be more worthwhile to examine how the information technology has changed the operation of the world and our design practice...etc. So at this stage I think this is a wrong direction to approach my "real" question about "identity".

(2) Did you work as an Art administrator?
Another thing that struck me was when Luke asked me about my experience as an art administrator. At first, it got me to think about what I can do as a graphic designer to help solve some of the problems facing the art administration practice. In my case, as an administrator in an organization serving particularly the performing art, I thought of "money". The need of fund and the skils for fund raising is always the primary issue. Secondly, the marketing and promotion of art institutions. Thirdly, the documentation of the artworks and the activities.
And then I thought of the complaint that I often to receive - I cannot produce a moving image. Well, in this information driven world, the ability to draw people's attention makes a difference.
So if I am to continue my future career as an art administrator (Am I? that is the real question), maybe the "Moving Image" is a direction I can follow through in terms of professional skill development.

Project 2 - In response

2008-03-02T21:53:00.006Z

the cover

one of the paragraphs

a part of the final work

study on Kandinsky's composition, rhythm and color

I guess I will finally start blogging now - YES- writing is essential in keeping a reflective practice.

Project 2 is about responding to an image of our choice through the creation of a 500-word text and presenting them using typography.

After the experience of project 1, I put more efforts this time on research instead of the intuitive " A-ha" approach (although some of the research turned out to be a wrong direction); and I am more careful and conscious in directing my findings of the theory to the final design work - both the content & form. It turned out to be very helpful in the design process!

I've also learned more about my attitude towards design throughout project 2, things like:
1. music is a great source of inspiration for me - I learned more about bassa nova this time! And through their music I can feel the optimism of the Brazilian soul! An unexpected gift for me.
2. everyone can write a poem - including me - and I even wrote 500 words!
3. I seem to be making better aesthetic judgment this time - especially when I was under great stress and time pressure!
4. generation of ideas is easy, but it is the selection of them hard; Like what Ben said to me, don't try to create another project for myself! Avoid too many ideas competing with each other is the key.

Finally, I am mostly grateful of Wei-Wen's sharing of her life story with me- the story I have heard many times but still, immensely touching and moving - and not to mention those incredible pictures she took. Like what you said, Wei-Wen, whenever seeing this pictures, we feel immensely blessed.

Lyon

2007-11-24T21:25:00.001Z

Just diary

2007-01-28T07:19:00.000Z

Fly Away

2007-01-28T07:04:00.000Z

Balance

2007-01-28T06:58:00.000Z

Festivals in Asia - (Folk Art)

2007-01-28T06:28:00.000Z

Festivals in Asia - (ink and color)

2007-01-28T06:22:00.000Z

OISTAT Visual Identity Design (under development)

2006-12-21T02:12:00.000Z

Business Card Design

OISTAT Letterhead

Cover for OISTAT Portfolio

OISTAT Symposium in Taipei(12/12/2006)
Signage

Banner

Hug!

2006-12-16T06:58:00.000Z

Look!

2006-12-16T06:08:00.000Z

OISTAT.ORG

2006-12-15T12:02:00.000Z

http://www.oistat.org

ActiveHealthCenter.NL

2006-12-15T11:49:00.000Z

http://www.activehealthcenter.nl

TATT-OISTAT.ORG.TW

2006-12-15T10:50:00.000Z

http://www.tatt-oistat.org.tw

TATT-PQ07 DM & Webpages

2006-12-15T10:00:00.000Z

http://www.tatt-oistat.org.tw/pq07.html

Modern Dance Web (under development)

2006-12-15T09:38:00.000Z

http://janeycl.myweb.hinet.net/index.html

Scenofest Fund Raising Flyer

2006-12-15T09:00:00.000Z

TATT Brochure

2006-12-14T22:47:00.000Z

International Conference of Performance Venue Management

2006-12-14T00:21:00.000Z