"An inventive work that transforms Taichung Hakka stories into an engaging visual and tactile experience."
-------- Review from Future Art & Design Award
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Project description
"TAICHUNG LIFESTYLE", a biannual magazine dedicated to Hakka culture, is centered around the design concept of "Hakka Cultural Performance", and would transform the magazine into an immersive cultural theater.
The 11th issue, "Unveil the Black Box of Drama — Performing As Hakka," uses the imagery of a theater black box to explore the fusion of native-language theater and Hakka culture. The double cover edition, starring an actor gazing out at the audience around on the stage as the front cover, while displays the reversal perspective as the back cover. The design allows the readers to become the audience as they glimpse into the inner world of the actor. The cover material is crafted from silver foil card with a black background so as to create a metallic sheen and evokes the visual effects of theatrical lighting.
The geometric shifts and gradients between pages, being reminiscent of the black box, guide the readers through spatial transformations and temporal narratives. Through theatrical elements, readers feel like indulging in a performance with page turns. By combining the tactile sensation of paper, light and shadow effects, and experimental typography, the paper has become an interactive cultural theater.
This work demonstrates how Taichung Hakka stories are transformed into contemporary visual experiments through printed materials and layout design, , so that it can have generated such an engaging reading experience. This can showcase the innovative vitality of Taichung Hakka culture within a visual context.