A truly unique and rather eye-opening festival, even if all I went to was a few exhibits at the Old Court House.
The CCC Character Festival [www.HexaProject.com]
was the first out of 3 compulsory exhibits that we needed to visit and so Mada, Clarissa and myself strayed from the rest of the class and went to it first.
The warm greeting of an almost symmetrical character as you enter.
The room was rather small but it was packed with lots of illustrations beautifully drawn/printed [ looks drawn yet printed] in black. Each piece stood alone but sort of told a story. Now let me allow these photos to tell them.
Kind of looks like very old paper that the chinese used to use. With very vivid and compelling drawings. These 2 are my favorite. It’s pretty amazing what people can do with lets say a black pen and paper. The thought and imagination process in their minds and transferring that onto paper is amazing.
These are some other characters exhibited under the CCC Character Festival
The Planet Planter
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Typography
Now this exhibit was rather unique, in the sense that the room was pitch black. As such pictures taken do not represent
The actual feel of the room. There were several posters hung up with small torch lights with it, the trick was to shine at the poster and the shadow produced would spell out the words on the posters. Hard to imagine, even harder to capture on camera. So you have to use your imagination, it’s kind of like making shadows with your torchlights.
What you see is what you get, the atmosphere was quite scary if you was inside there alone. The use of light was a great way to further bring the emphasis on the typography on a deeper level. It forces the views to focus in order to read the messages embedded in the design pieces .
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POST: Taiwan design in pop culture
This was my favorite of all the exhibits, it featured various professionals in the design related scene. From post production to print to clothing design. The way they presented the portfolios of the professionals was simple yet it drew you to carry on reading.
Simple yet it drew me in – I wouldn’t mind something like that for myself at home.
This video was ran on loop on the projector, I must have re-watched it at least 3 times. Love the way it was done, the transitions between the frames especially towards the end when they introduce the various professionals.
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As a whole, even though I only managed to visit some exhibits at the Old court, I found the trip really educational, but more importantly it was fun to see what people can do and it sure was an eye-opener. Here are somemore random pictures taken from other exhibits.
These were hand sewn together, the tabs from cans.
From the “V is for Vase” Exhibit 
A Super old school umbrella “locker”, not part of the exhibition but left me feeling rather intrigued.
Why Not?
