Play Time
(Magazine and Creative Direction)
The summer of 2024 is one of games, marked by not only the summer Olympics in Paris, but also the art world’s marathon sport known as the Venice Biennale. LEAP’s Spring/Summer issue is set in a gaming mood. Through the lens of games, this issue focuses on themes related to sports, competition, military action, and the myriad rules behind these games. Much of what we do in life can be seen as a game of some sort. Some play it to win, some are in it for the ride, while LEAP is here to look into the rules of the game.
(Magazine and Creative Direction)
The summer of 2024 is one of games, marked by not only the summer Olympics in Paris, but also the art world’s marathon sport known as the Venice Biennale. LEAP’s Spring/Summer issue is set in a gaming mood. Through the lens of games, this issue focuses on themes related to sports, competition, military action, and the myriad rules behind these games. Much of what we do in life can be seen as a game of some sort. Some play it to win, some are in it for the ride, while LEAP is here to look into the rules of the game.
Little Utopias
(Magazine and Creative Direction)
Published in 1516, Thomas More’s book Utopia portrays a fictional island, serving as the inspiration for LEAP’s Fall/Winter 2023 edition titled “Little Utopias.” This edition can be taken as a map, which will guide you to four imagined islands — Dwelling, Communing, Worlding, and Reimagining. Throughout this journey, you’ll get a glimpse of the realization of idealist thoughts in everyday life, the organization of creative communities, and the construction and maintenance of utopian spaces. The design of the magazine incorporates customized typography, resembling islands on a map with their distinct yet interconnected outlines. Earth tones inspired by various topographies dominate the color palette, while visual essays are complemented by illustrated or geometric shapes, representing diverse types and scales of maps.
(Magazine and Creative Direction)
Published in 1516, Thomas More’s book Utopia portrays a fictional island, serving as the inspiration for LEAP’s Fall/Winter 2023 edition titled “Little Utopias.” This edition can be taken as a map, which will guide you to four imagined islands — Dwelling, Communing, Worlding, and Reimagining. Throughout this journey, you’ll get a glimpse of the realization of idealist thoughts in everyday life, the organization of creative communities, and the construction and maintenance of utopian spaces. The design of the magazine incorporates customized typography, resembling islands on a map with their distinct yet interconnected outlines. Earth tones inspired by various topographies dominate the color palette, while visual essays are complemented by illustrated or geometric shapes, representing diverse types and scales of maps.
ArtReview China 2023 Spring
(Magazine and Illustration)
In this issue, ArtReview takes a brief sweep through some of the alternative “art schools” — alternative, that is, to the “official” educations that are the mainstay of art training under the universe umbrella — that have sprung up across the world in recent years. It also examines what it means to ‘learn’ to be an artist through customizing a questionnaire in the hope of getting to know how artists, students, and teachers learn and practice art. Illustrations are drawn to visually express several answers to the questionnaire.
(Magazine and Illustration)
In this issue, ArtReview takes a brief sweep through some of the alternative “art schools” — alternative, that is, to the “official” educations that are the mainstay of art training under the universe umbrella — that have sprung up across the world in recent years. It also examines what it means to ‘learn’ to be an artist through customizing a questionnaire in the hope of getting to know how artists, students, and teachers learn and practice art. Illustrations are drawn to visually express several answers to the questionnaire.
Sleek Surfaces
(Magazine and Creative Direction)
LEAP’s Spring / Summer 2023 edition, titled “Sleek Surfaces,” delves into the notion of smooth aesthetics, which have become increasingly dominant due to the resurgence of social media during the pandemic era. New technologies continue to permeate daily life, and the notion of “sleekness” is shaping how we view and influence life’s politics in an ostensibly diverse but potentially homogenized manner on an unprecedented scale and depth. In this issue, visual elements were used to reference such technologies, software, machines, and tools, and take the shape of the miscellaneous digital informational aestetics to explore the intricacies and dissatisfactions surrounding smoothness within contemporary art.
(Magazine and Creative Direction)
LEAP’s Spring / Summer 2023 edition, titled “Sleek Surfaces,” delves into the notion of smooth aesthetics, which have become increasingly dominant due to the resurgence of social media during the pandemic era. New technologies continue to permeate daily life, and the notion of “sleekness” is shaping how we view and influence life’s politics in an ostensibly diverse but potentially homogenized manner on an unprecedented scale and depth. In this issue, visual elements were used to reference such technologies, software, machines, and tools, and take the shape of the miscellaneous digital informational aestetics to explore the intricacies and dissatisfactions surrounding smoothness within contemporary art.