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Fusion of Forms/交织的文字, 2025
Experimental Design/Billingual Typography
Fusion of Forms/交织的文字, 2025
Experimental Design/Billingual Typography
Designer: Xinyuan(Caesar) Li
Sound Edit: Benjamin Woods
Photography: Rohan Hutchinson
3D Clock Demo: Zhen Xiong
Typography is not only a tool for communication but also an invisible thread weaving together history, culture, society and technology. In today’s digital age, typography encounters both new opportunities and numerous challenges. What new forms can bilingual typographic design take? Can it serve as a bridge connecting different worlds and cultures, paving the way for deeper mutual understanding and meaningful cross-cultural dialogue? Fusion of Forms is a series of multimedia installations focused on innovative Chinese–English bilingual design, presented in a solo exhibition at the 2025 Melbourne Design Week. By integrating motion graphics and interactive technology, the works combine traditional typographic logic with digital experimentation. Through deconstructing and reconstructing writing systems, the project explores visual possibilities for bilingual narrative in screen-based, digital contexts.
In "Fish", the English word Fish takes the form of a pictogram, swimming alongside Oracle Bone script characters across the screen, hinting at a subtle symbiosis between civilisations. "Rain" reinterprets the structure of the Chinese character “雨” (rain) as a window frame, with its four dots transforming into the letters “R,” “a,” “i,” and “n,” together depicting raindrops falling past a window. Set within Melbourne’s multicultural environment, Fusion of Forms is not merely a formal experiment—it is a practice of social design. Through the interaction and fusion of Chinese and English writing systems, it invites the audience to engage by viewing, participating and conversing, creating a layered experience that promotes cross-cultural understanding and reflects on contemporary issues of language, identity and coexistence.
文字排印(Typography)，不仅是沟通的工具，更是编织历史、文化、社会与科技的无形纽带。在数字化的今天，文字排印既迎来新的机遇，也面临诸多挑战。在此背景下，双语文字设计将呈现怎样的新形态？它能否成为连接不同世界与文化的桥梁，开启更深层次的相互理解，促进跨文化对话？ 《交织的文字》是一系列专注于中英双语设计的多媒体装置作品，于2025年墨尔本设计周个人展览中展出。该系列作品融合动态视觉与交互技术，将传统排版与数字实验方法相结合，通过对文字结构的解构与重构，探索数字语境下双语共同叙事的视觉可能性。
《鱼》将英文字母 “Fish” 构造成“象形文字”，与中文甲骨文在屏幕中共同游弋，隐喻不同文明之间的微妙共生。《雨》则将“雨”字的框架转化为窗格，四点水化作英文字母 “R、a、i、n”，共同营造出雨滴落下、透过窗户的景象置身于墨尔本多元文化的环境背景下，《交织的文字》不仅是一项形式上的实验，更是一场社会设计的实践。它通过中英文字体系的交融与互动，激发观众在观看、参与和对话中形成多重体验，从而推动跨文化理解的进程，并回应现代社会中关于语言、身份与共存的深刻议
Speacial thanks to the support from CAVES Gallery for the solo exhibition at Melbourne Design Week 2025.
In "Fish", the English word Fish takes the form of a pictogram, swimming alongside Oracle Bone script characters across the screen, hinting at a subtle symbiosis between civilisations. "Rain" reinterprets the structure of the Chinese character “雨” (rain) as a window frame, with its four dots transforming into the letters “R,” “a,” “i,” and “n,” together depicting raindrops falling past a window. Set within Melbourne’s multicultural environment, Fusion of Forms is not merely a formal experiment—it is a practice of social design. Through the interaction and fusion of Chinese and English writing systems, it invites the audience to engage by viewing, participating and conversing, creating a layered experience that promotes cross-cultural understanding and reflects on contemporary issues of language, identity and coexistence.
文字排印(Typography)，不仅是沟通的工具，更是编织历史、文化、社会与科技的无形纽带。在数字化的今天，文字排印既迎来新的机遇，也面临诸多挑战。在此背景下，双语文字设计将呈现怎样的新形态？它能否成为连接不同世界与文化的桥梁，开启更深层次的相互理解，促进跨文化对话？ 《交织的文字》是一系列专注于中英双语设计的多媒体装置作品，于2025年墨尔本设计周个人展览中展出。该系列作品融合动态视觉与交互技术，将传统排版与数字实验方法相结合，通过对文字结构的解构与重构，探索数字语境下双语共同叙事的视觉可能性。
《鱼》将英文字母 “Fish” 构造成“象形文字”，与中文甲骨文在屏幕中共同游弋，隐喻不同文明之间的微妙共生。《雨》则将“雨”字的框架转化为窗格，四点水化作英文字母 “R、a、i、n”，共同营造出雨滴落下、透过窗户的景象置身于墨尔本多元文化的环境背景下，《交织的文字》不仅是一项形式上的实验，更是一场社会设计的实践。它通过中英文字体系的交融与互动，激发观众在观看、参与和对话中形成多重体验，从而推动跨文化理解的进程，并回应现代社会中关于语言、身份与共存的深刻议
Speacial thanks to the support from CAVES Gallery for the solo exhibition at Melbourne Design Week 2025.
