leMook 12

UBC Literature Etc.
Art Director
Spring 2008

leMook 12, featuring Urbanism as the primary topic and complimented with the photographically beautiful Special Project: Travel Journalism, is the newest issue of the UBC Literature Etc. leMook series. The creative approach was to balance the serious topic of Urbanism with an attractive and easy-going illustrative style to soften the text. Being the art director and the illustrator, I really enjoyed this particular project. It allowed me to further explore my drawing style in the humorous direction. It also led to the creation of freehand typography - two styles both in the English alphabets and Chinese characters.

UBC Literature Etc. was founded in the summer of 2002 by Elisa Chiu, a former undergraduate student at UBC, passionate in all aspects of art. She particularly wanted to collect Chinese literary works from all around the globe and publish a semi-annual magazine (April, September) based in Vancouver, now named "leMook", that is completely written, illustrated, and designed by students. Today, this publication has become the basis for our club.

Biography of Jung Chang
Wild Swans, censored

Core Studio
Designer
Spring 2008

The Chinese-British author Jung Chang is famous for her book, Wild Swans, selling over 20 million copies worldwide. The book is an autobiographical family history following the lives of three women of three different generations - Jung’s grandmother, mother and Jung herself - in Communist China. Jung’s goal as a writer is to bring aware of Mao’s evil deeds to the Western world. Through the redesign of the book, I wish to help push the author’s message on a different level.

This new edition of the Wild Swans is a project on the author Jung Chang and censorship. This publication will show the world the truth about Communist China and its strict rules not just in the text, but on the text as well. Donned in black streaks of markings and holes of breakdowns, the book is paralleling the life of Jung Chang to her emotions in Mao’s China. It is created to let the Western world experience censorship as is. If you are living in China, this is what you can and cannot read; it is bringing China to you.