I hate how you make me give my thoughts a shape,even when I’m supposed to be taking a break.
In my spare time, I make designs around concepts, information and ideas I’m curious about. Trying aesthetics I follow on social media helps me practise visual expression and develop my creative thinking.
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Typography and layout study
GOTHAM
To practise what I learn about typography and layout, I often set myself an exercise: research a typeface’s history and applications, then design a poster about it using only its own characters and the colours black and white. For this poster, I chose Gotham, the iconic geometric sans-serif typeface created by designer Tobias Frere-Jones and released by Hoefler & Co. in 2000.
Drawing on the raw, sturdy character of mid-20th-century New York architectural signage, I rearranged the letterforms into a striking Batman mask. This visual detail suggests an intriguing connection between Gotham’s American urban character and the fictional Gotham City in the Batman comics.
The poster brings together key moments in the typeface’s history, from its prominent role in Barack Obama’s 2008 presidential campaign to its widespread use in leading magazines such as GQ, communications and technology. It presents Gotham’s history and range of applications, and expresses the modernity, clarity and trustworthiness associated with the typeface.
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Seoul (prod. HONNE) - RM
This is one of my favourite songs by RM, one of my favourite independent Korean artists. The song plays with the words "love" and "hate" in a way I find interesting, and I think it has had a considerable influence on how I’ve come to think.
If love and hate are the same word, then I have always hated the things I love, and loved the things I hate. Emotions are difficult to name or separate neatly, so I choose to accept them and live with them, allowing them to become part of me.
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"눈" (Winter) - SE SO NEON
"눈" (Winter) by SE SO NEON is a contemplative song about loneliness, emotional distance and the uncertainty we feel as time passes. It is my favourite song to listen to when I go to the beach alone in winter.
In the song, the singer compares themself to a winter that is "cold and white", expressing loneliness and a longing to escape an inner emptiness. The image of "winter ignoring spring once again" suggests being caught in sadness and becoming emotionally numb, not yet ready to welcome warmth or new beginnings.
Each lyric feels like a footprint pressed deep into the snow, carrying the weight of our thoughts as we face memories and the distance between souls.
Open original image ↗Concept poster · Jean-Paul Sartre and existentialism
LOST
I designed this image around a quote by Jean-Paul Sartre while learning about existentialism. According to Sartre, we are "condemned to be free" because we do not choose to be born, yet must always decide how we exist.
When we enter a big city, familiar frameworks begin to fall away and no one has laid out the path ahead. We confront that freedom with confusion, emptiness and a sense of being lost. Lost can therefore be understood as the shock of freedom: the moment we realise there is no predetermined map for our lives.
Being lost becomes the starting point for shaping who we are, as we learn to accept uncertainty, take responsibility for our choices and draw our own path.
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O Captain! My Captain!
"O Captain! My Captain!" is an elegy written by Walt Whitman in 1865 to mourn the death of President Abraham Lincoln. It was first published in Sequel to Drum-Taps (1865), a collection of Whitman’s poetry inspired by the events of the American Civil War.
It is perhaps Whitman’s best-known poem, which is ironic given how much more conventional its rhythm, form and subject matter are than those of his other works. Although some critics have argued that Whitman regretted writing "O Captain! My Captain!", it undeniably captured the mood of a grieving nation and remains one of his most loved and most frequently quoted poems.
The blue and red colours, along with the circular motifs, also refer to Lincoln’s political beliefs. In the 1864 presidential election, he sought broader support during the Civil War by running for re-election under the National Union Party, a temporary coalition of the Republican Party and pro-Union Democrats. The party dissolved after Lincoln’s death.
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