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TO BRING A BOOK FAIR BACK TO BOOKS.
The debut of Rehearsal Art Book Fair, taking place on Sep 15 and 16, 2023 in New York City, seeks to explore and present the essence of independent art and literary publishing within highly capitalized and/or censored contexts.

Typeface designed by Chia-Ying Yu, Leila Anaïs Pyrczak, Shisi Huang, Jiaoyang Li, and myself following prompts reflecting on the idea and act of publishing.

*The letter "F" from fluxus poster of inclined dots resembles a checkmark after rotation
*The red cross of heavy paint brush stroke from Joseph Beuys's silkscreen printing work "3 Tonnen-Edition" (3 Ton Edition)
*Wikipedia’s image example for stage positioning marks and corresponding product image.
*The exclamation mark comes after onomatopoeic words or imperative sentences in no matter what language; a shout of "start!" filled with emotions.
*A palm raised upright which may signify prohibition - can it be interpreted as an invitation when rotated?

Double-sided brochure with one side unfolds into a poster.

12*18inches

Tote bag with front and back silkscreen printing in orange and grey, three colorways.

15*15 inches

A curated exhibition of over 240 titles of Samizdat from Chinese-speaking creators at Rehearsal Art Book Fair, also in the U.S for the very first time. This signifies our appreciation for the consistent practice of bookmaking as personal Rehearsals and Revolutions.

Bilingual book insert presenting each title’s metadata and words from recommenders.

3⅝*8.5 inches

A type experiment created from various logics based on the invention and application of the International Morse code, discussing the nature of code from an semiotics perspective. The outcome is both pure graphic and an encoded alphabet. 

Poster and flyer design for exhibition curated by Chiarina Chen. 

The Tale of Errantry to the End of the Night is a group exhibition exploring uncanny diasporic narratives and relations. Inspired by Édouard Glissant's idea of errantry, the title suggests a departure from fixed notions of belonging and instead embraces wanderings and changes. In Glissant's sense, the root is not important. Movement is. And identity is not entirely within the root but also in relation. This notion not only resonates with recent decades' diasporic discourses but also forges a deeper alliance with today's posthumanistic reality. As the paradigm shifts from bio to zoe, from dualistic transcendence to radical immanence, geographical and physical boundaries no longer confine where we belong or what we are becoming. 

Poster design with Shisi Huang for choreographer and artist NiNi Dongnier’s performance at Shanghai International Dance Center Theater.

Mongolian Typography: Tengis
_{Special thanks to Hannes Drißner}

︎Press: The New York TimesPoster design for exhibition curated by Herb Tam and Lu Zhang.

Home-O-Stasis: Life and Livelihoods in Flushing gathers the work of 8 artists who have intimate and spiritual connections to Flushing, Queens. They created work as messages to people looking for a place to live, presented alongside the room-for-rent postings. The exhibition honors the immigrant life and livelihoods that both rely on this mini-mall and make Flushing run. It honors a Flushing way of being and doing things, an effort towards Home-O-Stasis, or the constant improvisation towards finding and defining home, and achieving a fleeting sense of balance.

On view from May 23 to July 23, 2023.