ZOE VISUAL WORK

new illustration - the heart sutra

2007-12-28T04:00:00.000-06:00

my new wallpaper

COMMERCIAL WORK

2007-12-15T04:57:00.000-06:00

Logo design

Poster and bag design

Client: IBM

Poster design
Client: Han Feng Tang Advertising

Brochure design
Client: IBM

Brochure design

Client: IBM

Invitation card

Client: IBM

Brochure design
Client: IBM

Card design
Client: IBM

X panel design
Client: Beijing Yosemite Advertising

X panel design

Client: '51766' travel agency

Brochure design

Client: Beijing Mobile

Book design
Client: Huan Hua design agency

Brochure design
Client: Sheng Bo Rui technology

Leaflet design

Client: APC

Brochure design

Client: APC

Outdoor Advertising
Client: Victoria Garden

Map - illustration

Client: Travel China

ORIGINALITY WORK

2007-12-14T10:23:00.000-06:00

Animal's flowers, 2006
This series of works are created at my PgCert stage of study in Birmingham Institute of Art and Design. At that time, I researched camouflage art and intend to find a harmonious expressive way to illustrate the relationship of nature and creature. Flower is the symbol of beauty and goodliness; I connect this icon with animal’s images to create unreal beautiful pattern and scene.

S & Z design studio, 2005

S & Z is a design studio which includes me and one of my friends. My responsibility is graphic design, and she is illustration. We both like colorful things and ornamental pattern; therefore I designed this series of images to show our aesthetics and personal styles.

Hiding in nature, 2006

Love, pattern design, 2006

Power of creation, 2004
poster design for a design company, use the expressive way of contrast, Human brain is simplified and white, however, it could create flowery color and glorious rays of light it is the power of creation .

Geometrical images, 2007

this project is a exercise to use geometrical shapes to create cartoon images, I intend to experiment a new expressive style with simply and graphic elements.

Peacock, pattern design, 2005

Modern Lee Gui, pattern design, 2004

SD doll, exercise, 2005

Foot family, collage, 2005

Historic Beijing, illustration, 2005

In China, the shape of circle means full and entelechy, which represent the Chinese life philosophy. I used some famous architectures and buildings in Beijing to create a harmonious and perfect circle, it is a best wish to my motherland.

Bad dog, danger!!, illustration, 2006

Wind flowers, 2003

Eyes everywhere, pattern design, 2003

Mask girl, 2004

Layout design, 2004

My blog front-page design, 2004

Frida Kahlo, layout design , magazine, 2002

Dancer in the dark, layout design , magazine, 2002

Day dream, 2003

Alcohol poster design, 2003

Great Mother, illustration, 2003

Night owl, illustration, 2003

Layout design, 2002

posters for animals protection, 2002

windflowers, pattern design, 2002

Pattern design, 2002

The Miao’s girl
Acrylic on canvas, 50 X50 cm, 2001

Unique Wedding
Acrylic and pastel on cardboard, 35 X25 cm, 2001

Club singer
Acrylic on cardboard, 20 X28.9 cm, 2000

Afternoon Campus
Acrylic and ink on yellow cardboard, 24.6 X21.3 cm, 1999

MA VISUAL WORKS

2007-12-13T05:23:00.001-06:00

Wu Ming - the darkness without illumination, illustration, 2007

My MA visual project includes a series of illustrations and graphic art works that encloses the topic of ‘Wu Ming’. Wu Ming is a Buddhist word in Chinese translation. Literally, it means darkness without illumination. Actually in Buddhist theory, it refers to illusion without enlightenment. Rather than a lack of factual knowledge it is a basic error in perception that prevents people from seeing things as they really are.

In Buddhist culture, especially in Tibet Buddhism, the pig is always appeared as a symbol to describe the meaning of ‘Wu Ming’. This image became my initial icon that frequently be used in my visual work. As a metaphor, it is means ignorance, blind and greedy character in people’s mind.

Another important symbol is the hand. The hand gestures in Buddhist art called ‘Mudra’; it is a sign with holy meanings. In my work, my focus is not only the metaphors of Buddhist Mudra, but also the hand itself. Human use hands to make things, improving our lives and living surroundings, it is a tool of production, the symbol of change and revolution. However, good things might bring bad result. The hand is also figured as the inducement of desire and suffering which could lead to breaks and destroys.

What is the state of Wu Ming? In my understanding, it is the medial state between black and white, right and wrong, clear and vague. It is the state which full of wondering thoughts and lost. Although in the Buddhist theory which signifies every people has the mind of enlightenment, people in the real life are always easily enticed by their uncontrolled desire, which cause all sufferings and afflictions. In my illustrations, people close their eyes so that they are unaware of what happened to their surroundings and they can’t find the right way in front of them.

There is no one who has perfect wisdom and soul. That is the real one, the real human.

Wu Ming (part)

5 chapter's movie, 2007
I designed a four-direction face, which could be twisted and the eyes could open and close alternately। I recorded this process and made a short movie। The twisting face is appear all the time in the movie. As a metaphor, it implies a state of lost in human's mind. The movie seems meaningless, however it talks about temptation, desire, lost, confusion, meditation, and awakened. It is my thinking process and life philosophy.

Untitled illustration, 29 x 42cm, 2007

Lost, 12 x 15cm, 2006

Mudra- pig head, 120 x 120cm, 2007

Modern industry, 59 x 42cm, 2007

Lost-2, 58 x 42cm, 2006

Untitled, 2007

Blind us, 58 x 42cm, 2006

Untitled, sketch in notebook, 2007

Mudra tree, 42 x 60cm, 2007

Mess, 58 x 42cm, 2006

Meditation tree

Color pencil and ink, 30 x 21cm, 2006

Broken Mudra, 29 x 21cm, 2006

Broken Mudra - 2 , 2007

Gulfed spirit -1, ink on cardboard, 29.7 x 21cm, 2007

Ignorance-1, 63 X 89 cm, 2007

Ignorance-2, 21X 29.7cm, 2007

Ignorance-3, 21X 29.7cm, 2007

Ignorance- 4, 21X 29.7cm, 2007

Blind, ink on cardboard, 30 x 42cm, 2007