Designers today face unprecedented challenges in the wake of new media and technologies. They must find their way forward and break free from existing and future constraints. Traditional frameworks have become limiting, stifling design innovation. The pioneering spirit has been reduced to dogma.
Perceiving refined forms is the foundation of the designer's craft and has been a tradition since the birth of the profession. It stems from the Modernist movement's emphasis on perceiving the forces and sounds within basic shapes, exemplified by figures like Kandinsky. By revisiting the paths of past pioneers and listening to the future amidst repetition, designers seek to find the intersection with the other.
"The Fold Site" is an illustration and book design project that explores forms using lines as its basis. "Fold" represents complex spatial structures, while "Site" refers to the structural categories in topology. The project aims to express high-dimensional spatial concepts on a two-dimensional plane through clusters of folds created by continuous, paused, intersecting, parallel, and bending lines. These clusters interact, merge, and give rise to complex forms, echoing differentials and creating a flow of forces. Through this exploration of forms, the project seeks to find resonance with viewers through a non-literary, purely formal program, inspired by the dialectic of Hegel's master-slave and Antonin Artaud's "Théâtre de la cruauté."
