Lin Yutang Collection
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This project, belonging to my undergraduate creative practice, is a design for a book collection of Lin Yutang, a famed writer in China. After reading his well-known work My Country and My People, the idea of designing his books started to germinate. I only focused on My Country and My People at the very beginning, then I picked his another two famous work to combine the three books together. To map onto the temperament of Lin Yutang's traditional Chinese culture, I made use of calligraphy as the basic element of the book titles, which occupied the principal part of the covers. Also, in this vein, the entire hue is simple grey overall, interspersed with a bit bright colour, such as red, yellow and blue. This kind of idea was also applied to the layouts of inside pages and the selection of paper. In brief, the entire book design attempts to reveal the literati character that Mr Lin contained. |
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