Kathmandu Triennale, 2021
Motion Graphic, Video, Typography
Technique: Animation
Software: After Effects
Clients: Siddhartha Arts Foundation / Para Site
Art Direction: Chris Wu (Wkshps)
Animation: Yixue Li
Software: After Effects
Clients: Siddhartha Arts Foundation / Para Site
Art Direction: Chris Wu (Wkshps)
Animation: Yixue Li
Motion graphic work designed for Kathmandu Triennale 2077, Nepal’s premier international platform for global contemporary arts.
Using kaleidoscope as the visual motif, this work reflects the discourses of “decolonization, migration and displacement” discussed by the Triennale.
Using kaleidoscope as the visual motif, this work reflects the discourses of “decolonization, migration and displacement” discussed by the Triennale.
On Being A Factory Worker, 2019
Exhibition, Art Direction, Print, Animation
Venue: Anderson Gallery
Technique: Digital print | Animation | Installation |
Wheat-pasting | Resin Casting
Material: Assorted Paper | Foam | Resin | Two-way Mirror
Software: InDesign | Photoshop | After Effects
Dimension: 240 x 168 in.
Design and Art Direction: Yixue Li
Craftsmanship: Jason Pascoe
Photography: Terry Brown Studio
Technique: Digital print | Animation | Installation |
Wheat-pasting | Resin Casting
Material: Assorted Paper | Foam | Resin | Two-way Mirror
Software: InDesign | Photoshop | After Effects
Dimension: 240 x 168 in.
Design and Art Direction: Yixue Li
Craftsmanship: Jason Pascoe
Photography: Terry Brown Studio
How does the vernacular visual language speak about disparities in China and across the globe? How does the typographic landscape around factories bring awareness to the cultural and socioeconomic gap between production and consumption?
On Being A Factory Worker is my MFA thesis exhibition that hopes to bring forward the disordered but lively visual landscape surrounding Chinese factory workers. It is designed to be "anti-designed" through a vibrant clashing color palette, and a joyful, messy, overloaded usage of typography. It also hopes to touch upon difficult questions about labor wages, rights of female workers, as well as identity transference.
2020, TDC 66 Communication Design Winner
2020, Communication Arts Design Annual 61
On Being A Factory Worker is my MFA thesis exhibition that hopes to bring forward the disordered but lively visual landscape surrounding Chinese factory workers. It is designed to be "anti-designed" through a vibrant clashing color palette, and a joyful, messy, overloaded usage of typography. It also hopes to touch upon difficult questions about labor wages, rights of female workers, as well as identity transference.
2020, TDC 66 Communication Design Winner
2020, Communication Arts Design Annual 61
New York Comedy Festival, 2019
Identity, Social, Campaign, Animation
Technique: Digital | Offset Print | Animation
Software: InDesign | Photoshop | After Effects
Client: New York Comedy Festival (NYCF)
Studio: Wkshps
Art Direction: Chris Wu, Eric Price
Design: Yixue Li
Animation: Eric Price, Yixue Li
Software: InDesign | Photoshop | After Effects
Client: New York Comedy Festival (NYCF)
Studio: Wkshps
Art Direction: Chris Wu, Eric Price
Design: Yixue Li
Animation: Eric Price, Yixue Li
Following the visual identity developed by the project team at Wkshps, I designed the digital campaign, social media assets, venue posters, and other promotional materials for the New York Comedy Festival 2019.
The New York Comedy Festival is an annual comedy festival co-founded by Jarrod Moses and Caroline Hirsch in 2004. It brings more than 200 internationally acclaimed stand-up and sketch comedians to venues across the City.
The New York Comedy Festival is an annual comedy festival co-founded by Jarrod Moses and Caroline Hirsch in 2004. It brings more than 200 internationally acclaimed stand-up and sketch comedians to venues across the City.
Commercial Classics (Ad Series), 2019
Campaign, Animation, Kinetic Typography
Technique: Animation
Software: After Effects
Client: Commecial Type
Studio: Wkshps
Art Direction: Chris Wu, Eric Price
Design: Yixue Li
Animation: Yixue Li
Software: After Effects
Client: Commecial Type
Studio: Wkshps
Art Direction: Chris Wu, Eric Price
Design: Yixue Li
Animation: Yixue Li
Advertising campaign series designed for type foundry Commercial Type’s new collection, Commercial Classics. Commercial Classics “is dedicated to recreating old typefaces, allowing these historical forms to escape the past and come to life again.”
Based in New York and London, Commercial Type is a joint venture between Paul Barnes and Christian Schwartz.
Based in New York and London, Commercial Type is a joint venture between Paul Barnes and Christian Schwartz.
Ballroom Marfa (proposed), 2019
Identity, Merchindise Design
Technique: Digital
Software: Photoshop
Client: Ballroom Marfa
Studio: Wkshps
Art Direction: Chris Wu
Design: Yixue Li
Software: Photoshop
Client: Ballroom Marfa
Studio: Wkshps
Art Direction: Chris Wu
Design: Yixue Li
Proposed merchindise design for Ballroom Marfa, an internationally recognized non-collecting contemporary art museum located in Marfa, Texas.
One Size Fits All, 2018
Installation, Photography, Publication
Technique: Installation | Digital print | Photo-retouching
Material: Switch plates | Mixed media | Paper
Software: Photoshop | InDesign
Dimensions: 22.75 x 18 in. | 2.75 x 4.5 in.
Design and production: Yixue Li
Material: Switch plates | Mixed media | Paper
Software: Photoshop | InDesign
Dimensions: 22.75 x 18 in. | 2.75 x 4.5 in.
Design and production: Yixue Li
One Size Fits All includes an installation and a publication. Utilizing the grid structure, this project explores the limitations with which we have to work and the space we sometimes force ourselves to fit.
I wanted to address the suffocating feeling of trying to fill one’s assigned work position, each and every day.
Exhibited at Book Object Festival in Italy.
I wanted to address the suffocating feeling of trying to fill one’s assigned work position, each and every day.
Exhibited at Book Object Festival in Italy.