the precious pieces of inspiration
Book Arts / Editorial Design
The book is a collection of all the quotes from books I read and some of my writing in the past year. The viewers can take each of them away as long as it interests them. It is just like I share ideas with them through this book. After one year of research, I realised that everyone lives within a group and is independent. We take pleasure in tremendous happiness but endure immense loneliness because we are so close, yet the distance between people's hearts is so far. By observing the crowd and myself, I try to find out what makes us identical to each other and what makes each of us unique. Perhaps ultimately, I find that, although we are essentially the same, our mutual interactions and accumulated experiences make each of us different. Because of our memories of such interactions, we can be further assured that we are truly living. “吉光片羽(JiGuangPianYu)” is a Chinese four-word idiom, which means the precious moments in life. I adopted the phrase for my book’s name to refer to what I have experienced and learnt this year. As I mentioned, they may not be necessary to others, but they inspired me. And that is why we are different from one another.
2011 Creative Prize, New Generation Book Cover Design Competition, Golden Butterfly Awards
The pages were printed by black/white laser printer and bound manually by myself. Due to the semi-transparent character of tracing papers, the final visual outcome was unexpectedly beautiful. Also, the concept of the project aligned with the other works I created in terms of the core idea of the relationship between languages, words and translations.
