Eikou Zhang

NODOA is a decorative Latin typeface whose construction is based on traditional knotting craftsmanship. The entire typeface is built using the cloverleaf knot as its fundamental unit and is presented in both physical and 2D digital formats. Through contemporary graphic design practice, NODOA Typeface aims to offer a new perspective for understanding and appreciating traditional handcraft, while also exploring alternative formal models for decorative type design.

A wig, understood as a trace, implies that wigs and other forms of constructed hair act as markers capable of revealing, concealing, or creating multifaceted clues about identity, culture, and social histories. In this book, discussions surrounding wigs purely from fashion, aesthetic, and personal beauty perspectives are deliberately set aside. Instead, wigs are emphasised not simply as decorative accessories or cosmetic items, but as concrete and complex products of culture, society, religion, and globalisation, possessing a communicative potential beyond language and capturing tensions from multiple angles. Similarly, this book aims, through a series of in-depth case analyses, to extend an open space in which readers can undertake their own acts of psychological editing and reflection.