Monkeys!Playful Graphic Design


Overview
Monkeys have flesh-colored faces and bright red rumps.
Drawing on these distinctive traits, I designed a series of playful graphics.
ContributionIndividual Project

DurationOct 2022 – Dec 2022 (2 months)

InstructorJian Xu (Tongji University)




Chapter I: Monkey？Monkey！
Through graphic ingenuity, the designs avoid literal depictions of monkeys while still allowing viewers to recognize the animal and its amusing characteristics.



Chapter II: Twelve Years Old
With a single continuous line, each form is sketched into being: looping and winding to shape monkeys and tell a small, engaging story.


Twelve Years Old
At that time, I wanted to catch the moon.
Because the Moon belongs to the future of humanity,
but the moon was mine.
At that time, I felt that things were always messy and overwhelming.
Adults said that every problem has a solution.
But I believed that not solving something
could also be a way of solving it.
At that time, I was often saddened by partings.
My twelve years old,
along with that season’s cicadas, I could never catch,
were buried in the soil.




Chapter III: 7:50 Using a unified graphic system, I created a range of animated monkey forms that capture a sequence of reactions as college students realize they are about to be late for an early morning class.
Linger
Wake
Gobble
Rummage
Dash
Pedal




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