2022

Yingzi Chen

Biography

Hi, I am Yingzi, a graphic designer passionate about printmaking, editorial design and typography. By integrating digital and analogue processes, my design philosophy is to provoke thinking from a unique perspective and make efforts to create subtlety and simplicity of designs that are intriguing and playful.

Portfolio

Design × Art × Design × Art

A festival and series of exhibition experiences exploring the relationship between art and design. Questioning what is art/ design and why?, as well as how they potentially transform into one another.

Each piece of paper was folded twice, resulting in a number of posters in various shapes. Everyone who visits the exhibition can create their own poster. The creases on the paper, like the crossover '×' establishing a connection between people and paper, as well as between art and design.

A series of posters were offset printed by lithographic process with silver and black ink.

Design × Art × Design × Art
Design × Art × Design × Art
Design × Art × Design × Art
Design × Art × Design × Art

Single ― Multiple

A journey starting from a single square to grids. Beginning from here, how does it end up in a completely unexpected way?

The book is printed square by square with a flat-bed letterpress machine, on Japanese Kozo paper, bound by hand sewing.

Single ― Multiple
Single ― Multiple
Single ― Multiple
Single ― Multiple

Ex-Formation

The explosion of knowledge available to us today can be dangerous for our creativity. Too much information stops us from thinking. Exploring the unknown and thinking about the opposite of 'information.'

These posters was printed by Inkjet on A2, 100gsm Munken paper from GF Smith. Unfolding the paper reveals the full image.

Ex-Formation
Ex-Formation
Ex-Formation