Xiao Chen

I’m a designer, dreamer, and nature enthusiast. My love for art and design shapes the work that I do.

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People tend to view emotions as an interference with rational judgment. However, emotions are natural fluctuations in life, and only by accepting emotions can we achieve true inner stability. As the value of emotions in interpersonal relationships becomes increasingly scarce, people’s ability to feel and respond to emotions is slowly weakened. Based on this observation, we created an interactive installation that aims to guide people to dialogue with their own emotions. The installation includes eight platforms representing basic emotions. Through pressure sensors and guidance cards, the audience can feel the dynamic changes of emotions and evoke the energy and flow of emotions. This is not only a technical experience, but also an emotional self-identification and healing. The overall design emphasizes that the value of emotions comes from self-acceptance and expression, and encourages people to face their inner emotions.

This project focuses on constructing a youthful visual language for the Hong Kong Cat Lovers Exhibition, achieving brand image upgrade through dynamic design strategies. Official website data indicates that the participating demographic has shown a significant trend toward younger age groups. By extracting the original yarn ball element from the official website, I reimagined it into flat graphical elements of lines and spheres. Through the arrangement of flowing curves, the design conveys the dynamic motion of cats chasing yarn balls while expressing their playful, lively nature. Furthermore, I streamlined the original logo by simplifying the line structures and incorporating a sense of breathing space, endowing the emblem with contemporary aesthetic qualities. While maintaining the original blue-purple color scheme, I intensified color saturation to enhance visual impact, effectively stimulating emotional resonance and enthusiasm for participation among younger audiences.

In today’s society, many people are confused about the future. They don’t know what to do in the future, or the significance of what they are doing now. Such a state reminds us of nihilism. According to Pratt, Nihilism believes that the universe and life are meaningless. Feel nihility is a very common problem of the century. Especially as our lives become busier, people have more of this feeling of emptiness and powerlessness in life. Although nihilism emphasizes despair and nothingness, it is not absolute. Instead, it encourages people to face reality and accept the impermanence and uncertainty of life. It reminds us to think about the nature and meaning of human existence. So we wanted to create an installation that would allow people to bravely face the void after feeling it. Our installation wants to help people realize that nothingness is a necessary thing and that instead of fear, we can choose to face it.

This project focuses on network information leakage in privacy. In the current context of rapid digital development, the issue of information and privacy protection is indeed becoming increasingly urgent. With a large amount of data flowing in the network, the frequency and breadth of information leakage are constantly increasing, allowing us to clearly see that data security has gone beyond the scope of personal privacy and has become a systemic problem that affects social order and economic security.