Designnonnatively
–Design in a Language You Cannot Speak
Prints & Installation
Author, Artist
Lai Ping So
Silkscreen Printing, Installation
January 2017
Designnonnatively is an art research project explores how language knowledge and typography are closely related.
A series of silkscreen prints and a sound device were created to emphasize the typographic features of counters and spaces between words in three scripts: German, Traditional Chinese, and Hebrew.
This work has been exhibited at several prestigious art spaces and institutes, including Hochschule Mainz, Gutleut Mainz, and PXL-MAD School of Arts Hasselt.
A series of silkscreen prints and a sound device were created to emphasize the typographic features of counters and spaces between words in three scripts: German, Traditional Chinese, and Hebrew.
This work has been exhibited at several prestigious art spaces and institutes, including Hochschule Mainz, Gutleut Mainz, and PXL-MAD School of Arts Hasselt.
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