Chinese Character Typography Design Series
A series of Experiment
Individual Work Year: 2018 - 2019
This is an ongoing project, please come back and check later :)
The first piece is called motion in chinese character. I think Chinese characters are very interesting.
Chinese characters represent words of the language using several strategies. A few characters, including some of the most commonly used, were originally pictograms, which depicted the objects denoted, or ideograms, in which meaning was expressed iconically. The vast majority were written using the rebus principle, in which a character for a similarly sounding word was either simply borrowed or (more commonly) extended with a disambiguating semantic marker to form a phono-semantic compound character.
So according to each character's representation and origin, I created motions for them.
The second piece is asemic writing, called a book from sky.
Click to generate new asemic writing.
The third piece is some experiments I made for my thesis research.
I used javascript to play with the shape of chinese character in the font.
I use computational way and write some algorithms that can apply different visual and motion rules to all chinese character. Yes, all of them in the font!