Graphic Design —— Lore of the Fan
Role
Independent Project
Skills
Drawing, Graphic Design, Story Telling, Font Design
Duration
June 2018 - July 2018
Introduction
During 2018 summer, I was in Boston. It was really hot and all I got was a desk fan. Thus I made an accordion book praising the heroic fan.
Front
On the front of the accordion book, I told the story adapted from a Chinese lore about Hou Yi that
“When ten suns rose from Earth, scorching the field, turning the world into a wasteland, DJ made a fan and blew all of them away, except one.”
This is the Lore of the Fan, also the Life of the Suns.
Back
On the back, I include the original lore of Hou Yi in Chinese:
“When Yao was the leader, ten suns came out at once. The crops were scorched, and all the plants were destroyed. The common people were starved to death. At the same time, the monsters and demons ran wild and did great harm to the people. Yao sent Hou Yi to solve the problem. After killing all the monsters, Yi shot down nine suns keeping only one in the sky. Then, the people could live a stable and happy life again. Yi became the hero eulogized by the later generations.”
Drawing
This is the first drawing I’ve ever done.
Five Modes
I explored different representations of the fan:
Graphic: Black and white only. It can appear to have “shading” as long as the shading is created using black and white only.
Simplified: Reduce the graphic representation to the exterior shape of the object with no or a small number of negative shapes in the interior.
Gesture/Contour: Fluid, quick, hand-drawn. Focus on line to define the object.
Nirvana: Selection of best expression of form, possible hybridized form, form that “feels best.”
Radical: Extreme deviation or abstraction, can be very stylized and/or concept-driven.
Patterns
Derived from five modes above.
Font
Inspired from the spinning motion of the fan.
