Posters and Motions

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Ruobing Liu   Wawa :)


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Ruobing Liu (she/her) is a graphic designer based in New York and China. My work spans through graphic languages, interactive experience, motion and 3-D approaches, exploring multiple themes based my own observation of the world and myself. Experiencing between the US and China, my practice draws on non-Western ontologies while also deconstructing and reconfiguring her relationship to intercultural narratives as well.

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Projects  Interactive

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GENTLE MONSTER  
CEREBRAL GEAR
  This project imagines a future where eyewear becomes a cognitive control device, transforming perception by systematizing the mind—suggesting that what we see is no longer objective, but engineered by how we think.

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<worldoperator>
Imagine the world as a meticulously coded system, where every event, every so-called coincidence, is the precise line of code in a grand, unseen program. My thesis challenges the common perception of randomness, proposing that what we label as accidents are not arbitrary but predestined—woven into a larger design that dictates the formation of our reality. Just as a complex algorithm generates outcomes that may seem unpredictable yet follow an inherent logic, the universe operates on an intricate structure where chance might be merely an illusion.  

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KAPPA SUMMER SCHOOL
While I was interning in the out.o design studio, I had the chance to participate in the main design practice of the brand KAPPA related programs including the KAPPA SUMMER SCHOOL project, where KAPPA was holding a three months long program in Aranya. During the project, I got the chance to design various merchandises and main visual elements.

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256 Images
I have always been wondering about whether or not our life id already determined, where we are is where we meant to be, what we are doing is what we meant to do... I was using grid system to place the images of the planets and 10 stages of a human being to metaphor the possibility that our life is already mapped out, and it is connected to the universe energy. I was using ruler, in this case, as the page number, everything in the book is precisely measured as an visual approach to delivery the concept and message.

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OOPS  Typeface
The human mind is a remarkable pattern-detecting machine, finely tuned by evolution to find order in the chaos of life. This ability has been crucial for survival—helping us recognize predators, identify edible plants, and make sense of the unpredictable natural world. However, this same tendency often leads us to perceive patterns where none exist, giving rise to the illusion of coincidences.

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Unsettling Desire
This project is inspired when I noticed my shopping desire, and my situation where I don’t have enough money to buy what I want to get. So the whole book is unfolding my emotion towards consumerism, and every page number is the cost of the paper I spend on making the book.

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Scattered time
I have always believed that time does not exist in a linear form, but rather in a scattered, point-like form, where people can access all moments either randomly or with purpose. In this project, I attempt to use a graphical form, employing a sundial and the shadows on paper as the content of the work. Installed in a set, it captures the present moment. I have always believed that time does not exist in a linear form, but rather in a scattered, point-like form, where people can access all moments either randomly or with purpose. In this project, I attempt to use a graphical form, employing a sundial and the shadows on paper as the content of the work, installed in a set to capture the present moment.

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Culture and superstition
I noticed myself being in a loop of spending money and this feeling of i don’t have enough money to buy what i wanna buy, even though i might not need this and even when i know that this is really overpriced. At one hand i like buying things that i like and want, but on the other hand such behavior makes me feel bad because im spending my mom’s money, and it makes me anxious.

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Language Market
For me personally, I got awkward or embarrassed talking to others in various context, and I woul的make jokes or make the conversation "less formal" with the use of a lot of international slang. In China particular, there will be context that we need to sit with various people who are older than us, and eat while having conversations; such scenario just makes me really uncomfortable, so the whole idea of the exhibition is to talk with others with various dialogues in various contexts. So I made an exhibition just for embarassing each other, and thus making the issue unfolded.

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NEST WE GROW
This Project is the visual design for a exhibition of the architecture Nest We Grow, which was a architecture piece in California. The architecture was delibrately constructed with various conjunction between woods by different techniques, and the building is somewhere that people could admire nature and environmental space, so I focused on construction techniques applied to the building because that is the main spotpoint of the piece.

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