Jingya Jin

This project focuses on the bow as a visual symbol, exploring its hidden role in shaping femininity, bodily control, and gendered social perceptions. By analysing its form, material, gesture, and cultural meaning, the project aims to uncover the disciplinary systems behind the symbol and reinterpret its meaning through visual deconstruction and reconstruction.

I designed a book centred on visual experimentation. It includes an image archive, formal deconstruction and redefinition. The cover features a printed title and embossed bow illustration, with coptic binding and bow elements integrated into the book structure.

This project explores the evolution of the concept of childhood through the lens of how information is accessed. It traces the shift from a time when children received only filtered and protected information, to the present, where digital media has created a constant overflow of unfiltered content. As a result, the traditional definition of childhood has begun to collapse. The project then moves toward imagining how childhood might be redefined in the future: not as an age-based stage, but as a fluid psychological experience.

The three books use visual experimentation to present the transformation of the concept of childhood across different time periods. Each book represents the past, present, and future of childhood, using distinct visual languages to express the evolution of information and shifts in the concept. The books are physically connected through a unified book box, reinforcing their conceptual independence and formal unity.