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- A Designer's Decade of Contemporary Art in China: The Book Designs of He Hao, 2003-2013
- Book
- 2014
- Published by: The Chinese University of Hong Kong Press
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Almost a Hundred Design Projects: Ai Weiwei, Xu Bing, Araki Nobuyoshi, Lin Tianmiao, Wang Gongxin, RongRong & inri, Liu Zheng, Yue Minjun, Miao Xiaochun, Xu Weixin, Zhang Dali, Yang Fudong, Tim Yip, Chen Wenji, Zhan Wang, Yu Hong...
An Asian Trend in Contemporary Graphic Design
An independent print-media practitioner, He Hao has been working with distinctive and representative artists in the Chinese contemporary art world, including Ai Weiwei, Xu Bing, etc., and designed more than 100 high-quality books and catalogs since 2003. Recording the current state of art development in China, his works have become an archive of significance. He Hao’s practice shows an Asian trend in today’s graphic design: the replacement of transplanted Modernism with a contemporaneity informed by the culture and lifestyle of contemporary China and the East. An independent print-media practitioner, He Hao has been working with distinctive and representative artists in the Chinese contemporary art world, including Ai Weiwei, Xu Bing, etc., and designed more than 100 high-quality books and catalogs since 2003. Recording the current state of art development in China, his works have become an archive of significance. He Hao’s practice shows an Asian trend in today’s graphic design: the replacement of transplanted Modernism with a contemporaneity informed by the culture and lifestyle of contemporary China and the East.
He Hao’s designs grow organically from the content. His sole concern is the discovery and presentation of the content, and his designs show no trace of his hand. This approach might best be called “essential design.”
— Xu Bing
He Hao is a designer infatuated with the dialogue between space and time. Sensitive to both the pressures of history and the endless transformations of all life forms, he remains in deep and focused meditation, a lone sojourner outside the commercial realm.
— Bei Dao
Table of Contents
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- Hans Van Dijk: Polaroid Photos
- Lin Tianmiao: Non Zero
- pp. 12-17
- RongRong & inri: Tui-Transfiguration
- pp. 18-23
- Wang Peng: Wang Peng
- pp. 24-27
- Designer's Note: Wang Peng
- pp. 28-31
- Guo Fengyi: Who is Guo Fengyi
- pp. 42-47
- Miao Xiaochun: Image+Imagination
- pp. 58-61
- Zhang Dali: A Second History
- pp. 70-74
- Designer's Note: A Second History
- pp. 75-79
- Liu Zheng: Under the Sun
- pp. 80-83
- RongRong & inri: Liu Li Tun
- pp. 84-91
- Designer's Note: Liu Li Tun
- pp. 92-97
- Xu Yong + Yu Na: Solution Scheme
- pp. 104-105
- Zhang O: Daddy & I
- pp. 106-109
- Mo Yi: My Neighborhood
- pp. 110-111
- Lin Tianmiao: Focus: On Paper
- pp. 112-115
- Designer's Note: Focus: On Paper
- pp. 116-119
- Lin Tianmiao: Seeing Shadows
- pp. 120-123
- New Photo: 10 Years
- pp. 124-130
- Designer's Note: New Photo: 10 Years
- pp. 131-135
- Lu Liang: Night Wanderer
- pp. 146-149
- Jan Worst: Paintings 1988–2008
- pp. 150-153
- Outward Expressions, Inward Reflections
- pp. 154-157
- Tang Hui: Tang Hui 1991–2008
- pp. 176-181
- Lin Tianmiao: Mother’s!!!
- pp. 182-185
- Liu Zheng: Dream Shock
- pp. 186-189
- The Tale of Angels
- pp. 192-193
- Peng Si: Bao Shu Du Xing
- pp. 194-195
- Wang Chuan: Eight Great Sights of Beijing
- pp. 196-199
- Teng Fei and Jack Cunningham: To Strangers
- Designer's Note: To Strangers
- pp. 202-205
- Chen Wenji: Chen Wenji
- pp. 206-211
- Designer's Note: Chen Wenji
- pp. 212-215
- Xu Bing: Xu Bing Prints
- pp. 216-224
- Designer's Note: Xu Bing Prints
- pp. 225-229
- Zhan Wang: The New Suyuan Stone Catalogue
- pp. 238-241
- Xu Yong: 18% Grey
- pp. 242-243
- Zhang Fangbai: Zhang Fangbai
- pp. 262-267
- Zhu Yu: Zhu Yu
- pp. 268-271
- Designer's Note: Zhu Yu
- pp. 272-275
- Jin Shangyi: Compliments to Vermeer
- pp. 276-283
- Zhang Jin: Zhang Jin Paintings
- pp. 284-287
- Designer's Note: Zhang Jin Paintings
- pp. 288-291
- Yu Hong: Golden Horizon
- pp. 296-303
- Teng Fei: Ctrl+S
- pp. 304-309
- Ye Jianqing: Observe
- pp. 310-311
- Zhang Jin: Realism of Middle School Students
- pp. 312-313
- Zhang Jin: Si He Ji Gu
- pp. 314-315
- Liu Xiaohui: Liu Xiaohui
- pp. 316-321
- Designer's Note: Liu Xiaohui
- pp. 322-325
- Zhang Hui: Zhang Hui
- pp. 326-329
- Wen Guozhang: Selected Oil Paintings
- pp. 330-331
- Xu Weixin: Figures
- pp. 332-335
- Xu Weixin: Seven Miners
- pp. 348-351
- Liu Shangying: Unarrived
- pp. 356-357
- Wang Peng: Wang Peng
- pp. 362-367
- Liu XiaoHui: Liu XiaoHui
- pp. 368-371
- Tim Yip: Silent Passenger
- pp. 372-375
- Zhang Jin: Si He Hua Gao
- pp. 376-377
- Name Index, About the Author
- pp. 380-386
Additional Information
ISBN
9789629968960
Related ISBN(s)
9789629966546
MARC Record
OCLC
919234466
Pages
448
Launched on MUSE
2015-08-28
Language
English
Open Access
No