Shiyu Zhan
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Hello, I’m Shiyu, a multidisciplinary graphic designer who is passionate about combining multiple media to express graphic design. During my three years at university, I have experimented with traditional graphic design mediums, as well as three-dimensional approaches, to eventually present in two dimensions. For my final project, I experimented with installations to express my ideas, using the randomness of digital AI to generate the images I wanted. I enjoy exploring and researching social topics, reflecting critically and solving problems through the power of design. I believe that design is not a decorative language, but a medium to convey emotions.
Portfolio
Paradise Lost
This project is based around my own dream world. I wanted to visualise my dreams. Presented as a small immersive exhibition, the viewer is invited to experience my dreams in person through the visualised graphics I created. There will also be a series of derivatives, postcards for visitors to record their inner feelings after seeing the exhibition, as well as phone cases, pillows, blankets and more. I also created static and dynamic posters and tickets to promote the exhibition. I hope that through the visualisation of random dreams, I can face my inner fears.
The past panel: focuses on my feelings of trepidation and fear when I first entered the dream world. At first I would always dream of strange looking things chasing me and the rides around me were different from the usual. So I was very helpless and all I could do was run forward as fast as I could.
The present panels: as time has changed I have started to become more mature and many times I have dreamt this scene and I am not so scared anymore. I began to have some curiosity as to why I kept dreaming about this place, and what this place really meant to me. So at this stage, I was more interested in exploring my relationship with the playground.
Future panels: I think I will probably keep dreaming about this scene in the future, this place has gone from being unfamiliar to me, to my getting used to the existence of this place now. It’s as if it is a place that only I will know, a place where I can pour out my emotions. I envisage a future where I will live with the place in my dreams and no longer fear it.
Existence and Extinction
Books can be used to record things in words and graphics, to express ideas and for people to turn the pages. Therefore, for the end result of this project I thought I would make a book design.
I felt that the arrangement of the graphics and text would also allow the reader to feel the movement of the apple as it falls, the process of being eaten and the changes in decay. As I have rarely done complete books before, I was enthusiastic about this project.
