Panóptico de Actualidad Gráfica y Visual
“My Donut Worry piece was originally based on wanting to create a set of positivity stickers or badges to share on Instagram and GIPHY. This was before the worldwide lockdown came into force so they didn’t have their true impact until then. But I really wanted to make a few clever little badges to make people smile using puns and...
The exhibition allows visitors to experience the antarctic journey through AR, internet digital technology, bodily sensations, recreated scenes of polar day and polar night, adventure forums, and the shooting of documentaries to create a comprehensive adventure of ice, snow, and rocks on our subtropical island....
The redesign of “Taipei Metro Pass: Taipei Anytime” represents the distinctive reception of the city of the travellers. The travel pass serves the first impression of the trip and also commemorates the end of the journey....
“For the creation of my last typeface (Bigilla) and for most of the fonts I design, I draw a lot of inspiration from the world of luxury and fashion. I like everything that has to do with elegance and I try to show it in my creations, especially with ligatures.”...
“A typeface needs to be designed as a system with logical relationships between the elements that make it distinct from lettering. However, this does not mean that everything has to look the same. What can be interesting and exciting is consistency within inconsistencies, without becoming random ‘creativity’. When judging the quality of a font, it is important to look out...
Taiwan Power Company — D/S ONE is created by transforming the acronym of “Distribution Substation” to the concepts of “Design” and “Sustainability”. During the construction, public participation was also applied in creating a cross-field platform that incorporates education, technology, art and the humanities....
What constitutes a good typeface design? “A major consideration for me is consistency. A well-designed typeface will have consistent design characteristics throughout the entire character set, which includes numerals, punctuation, and some symbols. This includes cap and x-heights, the overhangs of curved characters such as the o, n, and e, character width, stroke width, size of the ascenders and descenders,...
The interior avoids unneeded ornaments; whereas, exterior was renovated by cement and cladded with perforated metals, building up translucent contrast between solid and see-through material. The perforated facade brings more daylighting and creates blurry yet inviting shadow from outer surrounding, eliminating visual barricades among vertical stores. This old house becomes a new, flexible, light-weight, carrier to cater for unknown activities...
“My initial idea was to design an extremely simple font that nonetheless feels exceptional. The beginning was easy, I just enjoyed drawing each letter one by one how I wanted. But then the hardest part came: testing, fixing, countless kerning adjustments, re-drawing glyphs over and over … It’s been three years now. What kept me going is the feeling that...
“In all of my typefaces, inspiration can come from anywhere. It can be something related, you can be inspired by another typeface, make something similar, better, or go into the totally opposite direction, or inspiration can come from something that doesn’t have anything to do with typography — a line on a building, a curve on a car; many times,...
“I recently re-made an old font of mine called Cindie Mono — the update is called Cindie 2. The original idea for the font came from the monospaced letters used on medical opticians’ charts. I found the simplicity of the letters and the scientific approach to legibility interesting. The update of Cindie 2 has a hand-drawn script face also. This...
“A new Velvetyne font should be distinct from all other Velvetyne fonts but also from any already-published retail or open-source fonts. It should have a backbone made of a strong concept. It should not be too easy to use, allowing people to question what they are doing. Even if it should not look like any of our previous releases, it...
