Design Summer is a design education project initiated by renowned designer He Jianping in Hangzhou in 2009. It is defined as a “professional teaching workshop for designers.” Over the past decade, over a hundred industry-leading professionals and experienced practitioners in the field of design have been invited to serve as mentors for this design education program. After a three-year hiatus, Design Summer 2023, with the theme “ReStart,” successfully took place from July 17th to July 27th at its traditional venue, Hangzhou Creative Town, and concluded.
In response to the conclusion of Design Summer 2023, Bananafish’s “Design Lightning Night” program is launched. We have invited several participants from Shanghai to share their experiences during the eleven-day event, showcase workshop works, and engage in discussions and archiving of their experiences with different teaching methods and approaches taken by their respective mentors. Everyone is welcome to sign up and join the event!
Design Summer, Design Journey, As a Designer
DLN includes:
Part One
19:30-20:45
Design Summer 2023 Student Sharing Lecture
15 minutes per person
Part Two
20:45-21:20
Conversation between Guests
Part Three
21:20-21:30
Q & A
Host
Sufei
Date
2023.8.4 Friday night 19:30-21:30
Location
Bananafish Lecture Space
Poster Design
Xu Qianqian
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Xu Yinliang
Work and life in Shanghai as an art director and graphic designer. His works have been selected for Tokyo TDC and Macao Design Award.
Xu Yinliang’s workshop works at DS2023:
Work 1: Establishing One’s Own Tool System
Collect and organize a personal set of tools, then expand it to create a series of posters with a personal exhibition theme.
Work 2: Embrace Change, Enjoy the “Surprises” in Design
Summarized as creating a book.
The course ultimately resulted in two books: “Street Monsters” and “A Brief History of Time.”
The mentor chosen by Xu Yinliang for Design Summer 2023 is:
Anna Kulacheck + Shin Sobue
Sufei
Sufei, graduated from the University of York in the UK with a major in Arts Management. She works as a magazine editor, writer, and teacher at an artist book workshop. She was the chief editor of the blog “My Independent Bookstore,” where she introduced various bookstores from around the world and researched small bookstore business models from 2005 to 2020. She founded the art media website “Simple Style” from 2009 to 2015. In 2009, she established Bananafish Bookstore and has been responsible for book selection and event planning. Since 2017, she has initiated the UNFOLD Shanghai Art Book Fair project and served as the curator of the Shanghai Art Book Fair, responsible for the exhibition content and hosting lectures. Selected curatorial projects include the “Kazunari Hattori Book Design Exhibition” (2018, Bananafish) as a co-curator, “Back to the Page: Material Imagination of Artist-Made Books” (2018) as a co-curator, the “Yoshihisa Tanaka Book Design Exhibition Shanghai” (2019, Bananafish) as a curator, “East Asian Graphic Design Map” (2019, Bananafish) as a co-curator, and participating artist in the “Self-Printed Books as Alternative Art Practice” exhibition at the Shanghai Duolun Museum of Modern Art in 2023.
Sufei’s workshop works at DS2023:
The mentor chosen by Sufei for Design Summer 2023 is:
Kim Dohyung
Chen Zhu
Art Director, Graphic Designer. One of the lead designers for the open-source font project ‘Smiley Sans.’ For many years, I have been involved in font guidance, standard font design, and custom font design within brand visual systems, serving as a font consultant for various brands and agencies. Now working as an independent designer, I focus on design practices in the fields of branding, publishing, and curation.
Collective works of all students from the workshop Hannes Drißner by Chen Zhu at DS2023:
The mentor chosen by Chen Zhu for Design Summer 2023 is:
Hannes Drißner
Yijing Mao
An independent designer who previously worked as a full-time designer in the Brand Department of Seesaw Coffee. Currently focusing on brand, packaging, and poster design.
Yingjing Mao’s workshop works at DS2023:
The mentor chosen by Yijing Mao for Design Summer 2023 is:
Florian Lamm
Gan Yilin
A graphic designer currently working at Studio DPi design studio.
Gan Yilin’s workshop works at DS2023:
The mentor chosen by Gan Yilin for Design Summer 2023 is:
Kim Dohyung
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