Students' works
At the Institute of Creativity and Innovation at Xiamen University I am the unit leader of the creative foundation courses Analogue Design Skills and Digital Design Skills. In these courses students learn foundational analogue and digital techniques while developing their creative thought processes. In Analogue Design Skills students explore techniques such as observational drawing, collage, painting, printmaking, bookbinding, and pop-ups. In Digital Design Skills students get familiar to software such as Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, and Premiere to create digital artifacts: posters, vectorial illustrations, digital drawings, brochures, logotypes, gifts and stop motion animations.
In Analogue Design Skills and Digital Design Skills students imagine a fictional world that have characteristics and dynamics created by them. Students learn how to be comfortable at experimenting, drafting, projecting, making mistakes and finding solutions. This creative exercise represents an opportunity for students to explore their ideas and points of view about broader pressing global issues such as ecology, animal rights, social injustice, class, identity, mental and physical health, depression, and isolation. The artifacts produced by students are representative of their generation’s way of experiencing shared vulnerabilities; they show how students reflect on creative solutions about problems that affect their societies as well as imagining dystopic futures that reflect their fears and anxieties.
Analogue Design Skills
Lei Qianhui, Visual Communication Design 1, Analogue Design Skills, ICI, Xiamen University, Fall 2022.
Lanxin Chen, Digital Media Art 1, Analogue Design Skills, ICI, Xiamen University, Fall 2022.
Ouyang Wenfei, Environmental Design 2, Analogue Design Skills, ICI, Xiamen University, Fall 2022.
Peng Yunling, Visual Communication Design 2, Analogue Design Skills, ICI, Xiamen University, Fall 2022.
Zhang Qingyi, Digital Media Art 4, Analogue Design Skills, ICI, Xiamen University, Fall 2022.
Ring Jiayi, Environmental Design 2, Analogue Design Skills, ICI, Xiamen University, Fall 2022.
Zheng Yuting, Digital Media Art 4, Analogue Design Skills, ICI, Xiamen University, Fall 2022.
Hu Xiao, Visual Communication Design 1, Analogue Design Skills, ICI, Xiamen University, Fall 2022.
Gas Yiyang, Digital Media Art 1, Analogue Design Skills, ICI, Xiamen University, Fall 2022.
Ji Zia, Digital Media Art 3, Analogue Design Skills, ICI, Xiamen University, Fall 2022.
Digital Design Skills
Zhu Xingyun, Visual Communication Design 3, Digital Design Skills, ICI, Xiamen University, Spring, 2023.
Cao Xinran, Digital Media Art 1, Digital Design Skills, ICI, Xiamen University, Spring, 2023.
Lanxin Chen, Digital Media Art 1, Digital Design Skills, ICI, Xiamen University, Spring, 2023.
Qiongyn Du, Environmental Design 1, Digital Design Skills, ICI, Xiamen University, Spring, 2023.
Xu Xinran, Visual Communication Design 3, Digital Design Skills, ICI, Xiamen University, Spring, 2023.
Lin Ruixuan, Visual Communication Design 2, Digital Design Skills, ICI, Xiamen University, Spring, 2023.
He Chenyue, Environmental Design 1, Digital Design Skills, ICI, Xiamen University, Spring, 2023.
Wang Xiaohan, Digital Media Art 3, Digital Design Skills, ICI, Xiamen University, Spring, 2023.
Wang Chuchun, Digital Media Art 3, Digital Design Skills, ICI, Xiamen University, Spring, 2023.
Zhao Yingmiao, Digital Media Art 4, Digital Design Skills, ICI, Xiamen University, Spring, 2023.