Shiyao Angel Yu

Bio

work

  • 2013

    Poster created for an international poster competition. 

    A symbol gains meaning not through form but through intention. In photos of the Holocaust, one finds on deportation trains a forbidding manipulation of the Star of David. Used in this context, the symbol is modified and imbued with a merciless character. The tragic deformation the symbol’s original intentions evokes complex feelings and thoughts; the implications of such systematic usage suggested something far more...

  • 2013

    A project that aims to revitalize a local Chinese library’s current state through the development of an identity system. By providing the library with a set of communication guides and assets, it hopes to bring to focus the library’s functional, cultural and spiritual values. A set of stationery set, print materials and identity guideline have been developed as the deliverables of this project.

  • 2012

    This project involved the use of type to illustrate a written content. The work I've chosen to work with is The Second Coming by the Irish poet William Butler Yeats. The poster serves to convey a sense of forthcoming chaos as depicted in the poem.