VIVIENNE TRAN
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Vivienne is currently an undergraduate design student at USC. Her work is often inspired by the so-called mundane, everyday life and passing presences of people around her. She experiments with a multitude of mediums and likes to explore the different forms her works may take. She currently works as the Art & Design Director at the Daily Trojan.
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A1-sized posters done for Visual Image Making course at Ewha Womans University for the 22-2 fall semester. For this project, our class took a field trip to the group exhibition, “apmap 2022 seoul - apmap review” where we were to choose two works on display and express the works as lettering posters (one in English, one in Korean).
Song From Plastic
This lettering post was based off of UJOO+LIMHEEYOUNG’s work, ‘Song From Plastic’ (2022) (images on the right). The work applied the principle of a phonograph to a multitude of recycled plastic objects, capturing sounds on the plastic to play back like a record. Through this work, the artists raise questions about the meaning of our value as human beings and its traces, which I wanted to present in my poster. Like a vinyl record, each plastic object had engraved circular grooves. Combining this aspect with the quesiton of our value as human beings, the lettering can be seen as fingerprints and how each fingerprint has their unique combination of grooves.
빙하 (Glacier)
This lettering poster was based off of Kiwon Park’s ‘Glacier’ (2022) (images on the right). The work took up an entire wall in the exhibition and consists of paper and galvanized steel to transform the wall into a glacier. I intended to design based on the emotions of solitude and serenity I felt while observing the piece. As it takes up an entire wall, it transported me to a completely different environment and I felt alone and at peace even with other visitors around me. Like when one loses focus and stares at something for too long that it becomes blurry, I felt a serene blankness when I stood in front of it. This reminded me of how I wish to feel at the end of my journey. And coincidentally, this work was the last one displayed in the exhibition, making a fitting end to it all.
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