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About
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Blind Spot is an experimental project that aims to explore the details people tend to overlook in everyday life. The four postcards develop from the four objects I carry with me every day: my glasses, power bank, MacBook, and AirPods. They are not just four functional items. Each of them carries a different meaning behind it.
My Four Belongings.
They reflect the decline of a designer’s eyesight, the anxiety of running out of battery and losing connection with the outside world, the fear of being inefficient, and the overwhelming feeling of our chaotic world.
Most people might simply viiew as four ordinary objects. But I see them as the blind spots in my own life — the details hidden behind these everyday things, whether positive or negative.
With these four objects always with me, I move back and forth between two scenarios: the digital world and the physical world.
The Digital World.
As a designer, I’ve spent most of my time working in Illustrator, and there are three recurring scenarios I constantly face. Whenever I feel that a design isn’t perfect enough, my first reaction is to say, “It’s ugly.”
Even if it feels “ugly,” placing it into a mockup suddenly makes it look more appealing — that’s something I always end up doing.
Another problem happens when I copy and paste elements between files. The colors changed, even though they all come from the same color system file. I always wonder why, and switch between the CMYK and RGB systems over and over again. I hate this!
Blind Spot? Maybe it wasn’t that bad!
The Physical World.
It wasn’t a long time since I moved away from Shanghai to New York. To me, the only way to connect with the city is by walking around. Subway is the most important public transportation we have in the city. As I move within the city, I realize I now remember each stop of the N/Q/R/W line.
Blind Spot? I think I am qualified to call myself a New Yorker.
The similarity between the digital and physical worlds – the powerful line language.
I believe line is one of the most powerful languages we have. Line appears everywhere. In design, in characters, and in various spaces. The photos were taken from the Elmer Holmes Bobst Library at NYU, where lines emphasize the design logic and architectural stability through its interior design.
Blind Spot? Line is powerful.
Texture:
Blind spot is about discovery; that being said, our eyes are the most powerful tool. So I decided to make the collage with a photographic film texture to represent what I discovered around the city.
Form of presentation:
The postcard is special, chose it because of its portability. Like my four items, my discovery travels with me every time.