Yexiang Huang (David)

This project centres on a fixed observation point—the entrance and exit of my apartment building—capturing the subtle choreography of daily life. Through consistent documentation, I recorded the ebb and flow of individuals and objects, noting shifts in direction, fluctuations in presence, and the interplay of light and colour. These observations reveal a recurring pattern: the mundane yet profound rhythm of people coming and going, set against a backdrop of ever-changing environmental nuances.

Building upon this foundation, I ventured into the realm of abstract 3D animation. By deconstructing the captured scenes into geometric fragments, I reassembled them into dynamic visual compositions. This transformation from tangible footage to abstract representation serves to explore the duality of familiarity and alienation within shared spaces. The resulting animations, characterised by rotating cubes and particle transitions, evoke the continuous cycle of departure and return, mirroring the patterns observed in the real-world footage.

Together, the documentary-style recordings and the abstract animations offer a layered narrative that examines the intersection of physical space and human experience. They invite viewers to reflect on the unnoticed routines that shape our environments and the potential for reimagining these spaces through creative reinterpretation.

Observation→Abstraction→Narration

This is not a conventional book rich in linear narrative or explanatory text. Instead, it is a fragmented, visually-driven survival manual, designed to simulate the cognitive disorientation humans may experience under extreme environmental stress in a future shaped by the greenhouse effect.

The structure of the book deliberately embraces disorder—scattered layouts, abstract imagery, and nonlinear reading paths—mirroring the psychological collapse and neurological degradation it aims to represent. Across five cores, each part explores different global regions and correlates specific climate-induced brain conditions to those zones, constructing a speculative but logical map of mental decline and environmental collapse.

Special inserts such as fold-out pages, rotational layouts, and layered data visualisations serve not just as design choices, but as metaphorical tools to convey confusion, repetition, and cognitive overload—mirroring the symptoms of neurodegeneration.

Ultimately, this project is not merely speculative fiction in visual form, but a design-driven call to awareness, urging readers to consider the urgency of environmental action and self-rescue—before the world imagined within these pages becomes reality.

1. Social systems
2. Global stress pattern
3. Group behaviour
4. Emotional level
5. Physiological level

As graphic designers, we must deeply consider the theme’s profound meaning and explore how to reveal its core value through its outward appearance. This is the unique perspective we should adopt. Every subject can be an engaging research topic in its own right. The combination of musical instruments and body language can be skilfully translated into corresponding visual expressions.

Designers should carefully observe and record the trajectory of body movements, from subtle to prominent, and then create diverse graphic forms. Simultaneously, by using the sounds produced by musical instruments to develop a unique visual language for them, designers can construct a personalised and diverse narrative based on existing research data.