Life Creation_Collection of Folk Characters_Limited to Hong Kong and Macao

Author: life creation Publisher: Bright Culture Book length: 129mm x 210mm Number of pages: 240 pages ISBN: 978-988-8820-92-4 【brief introduction】 Text Observation Technique in Architectural Science - "Mink Chinese Characters" Made in Hong Kong Chinese character creation in the city - 109 selections of folk characters Explore the art of font design on the street, make mistakes again and again, and regain the fun of writing. Recommended prefaces written by Ben Sir Ouyang Weihao, Ashin (owner of Shu Shao Shao X Tongdu Restaurant), Huang Yuxuan and Sampson Wong Yang Tuan, Distinguished Professor of China Academy of Art, writes an introduction The author pointed out that digital words or computer words may account for 80% to 90% of the text that people see today. If the word can be typed, it is "right", and if it cannot be typed, it is "wrong". When a word is typed on an electronic product, there are only limited ways to display it. Except for the optional fonts, the others are limited to regular specific writing methods. The words in the city seem to be much more transcendent than those in the virtual world. There are signboards in front of shop doors, advertisements on bamboo sheds and building exterior walls, and business solicitations in front of real estate shop windows. The most varied ones are probably the market price signs or the handwritten menus of Dai Pai Dong tea restaurants. Some may say it's just a typo, some may say it's just a random scrawl, or some may say it's just an evolution of the old way of writing. The teacher has never taught me to write like this, but in people's hands, interesting and distinctive characters have emerged - we call these characters "minti characters". This book begins by exploring the design of "min-style characters" as "wrong-style characters" and its significance to the city and the people. This book uses digital techniques to simulate handwritten or signboard characters that you see every day into a set of electronic fonts based on their writing methods. We found that digitizing Minti characters might give them a formal feel and the possibility of being formally discussed, while retaining a sense of randomness in the strokes and writing methods. In the author's opinion, this method is an important extension for exploring the observability of folk-style characters. Based on the development of the digital age, giving the folk-style characters new clothes and retaining their writing style may allow the folk-style characters to be seen and discussed again. As a medium of communication, to what extent can the design of folk characters change? How does it change to express more? If the same word is written and drawn by different people in different situations, what will it show? Although we love these "people characters", we are not scholars who specialize in Chinese or characters. Without in-depth knowledge of Chinese characters and language, we left "archaeology" and tended to view "minzi" in the spirit of "examination of modern studies". Therefore, the perspective of this book is not formal academic, nor is it a city record based on pure personal preference. It is an attempt to use architectural research methods to explore words and cities from another perspective, trying to discuss the unconventional and random characteristics of both. Use a relaxed and happy pseudo-serious mode to discuss the characters in the city, and talk about the folk writings in various places in the city. Right or wrong, just talk about imagination. 【About the Author】 Life creation Life creates the city, and the city creates the life. The team aims to explore the reality of the city from daily life and its direct impact on people's emotions, cognition, and behavior, thereby reflecting on the city's collective memory, life culture, and architectural design. In this way, we try to give urban theory a discussion that is free from history and pure emotion, but with an academic theoretical basis. We also hope to inspire people's understanding and imagination of local culture.