Image Archive

Inspiration:

Real life things (Emotion)

Architecture (Construction)

Environment (Story)

Painting (Color/Tension)

illustration by Marcela Ghirardelli

I feel a sense of blooming, the heart of art.

Brushstrokes Cut into Forty-Nine Squares and Arranged by Chance.

By Ellsworth Kelly

It is an interesting image, very simple, those inks they are just brushstrokes, but l like the randomness here.

Apostrophe

Photographers – Travis Rathbone

Taking elements from the real life, and then become a 2D pattern.

For the first time, the raw fish doesn’t look so ugly.

Studio of Light,

Courtesy of Tadao Ando Architect & Associates

Geometrical shape, a sense of futurism.

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The color of the shadow of a surface. Combine this with the pure color and black or any other color.

 table-trunk by Andrey khvorostyanov

I like the clean, hard, colored geometry of the top in contrast with the more organic twisting and undulating lines of the sides of this stool/table.

Bent Wooden Chair Design Japanese design studio Nendo

Perfection.

Skin Fawn by Ryan Estep

Little hope is coming out, little life and little sunshine, it can grow bigger.

Photo by Line Thit Klein

very contemporary Japanese style decoration, I like the composition and the color theory here, very nude and natural feeling, and I also really appreciate the craftsmanship of these plates.

JEAN DUNAND Lidded box,

circa 1925 Lacquered oroide inlaid with mother-of-pearl and eggshell. 5.7 cm (2 1/4 in) high, 12.1 cm (4 3/4 in) diameter Underside stamped with ‘JEAN DUNAND’

Geometrical elements, and I like the texture of the surface.

Mexican Modernist architect

By Luis Barragan who is one of the most influential architects of the 20th century, he was known for his mastery of color, and space, and light.

Gallery of Galaxy Soho in Beijing, by Zaha hadid

I like the infinitive mood of the architecture, pushed the boundaries of architecture and urban design. It makes me feel like the building has fluid, and there is no limitation.

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 the yellow. It raises a sense of free to me.

 

 

Jackson Pollock

The famous ‘Drip and Splash’style, I can feel there is tension and power, also force.

The color is also very impressive.

 

Painting by Francis Picabia – les dessins

We live in a three-dimensional world, everything should have many aspects, and different interpretations. Try to observe things different could open another window.

Harbin Opera House

The modern architecture interiors, the context between modern and natural, the feeling is really addicted to minimal but meanwhile it is not simple, so clean that makes mefeels like somewhere from paradise.

Painting from Mark Rothko

I like this painting, because it gives me a sense of hope: when almost the whole frame is covered in black, there is still a brush on red (hope), and it is fresh, it is strong.

Twisted Tree Branches Fused with Ornate Picture Frames by Darryl Cox

life extension.

Ricardo Bofill’s utopian vision for social living in Sant Just Desvern, Spain.

I like the color, very striking, the photo also discovers a community-minded building that turned science fiction into harmonious fact.

liferuin,

by David Maljkovic

it makes me feel very stressful and been limited

 

Part 2

Photo by myself at Centre Pompidou

Key: construction and color, industrialized design.

Photo by myself at Whitney Museum

Light and stairs, space and constructions.

Old stamps and chops made in Hong Kong.

Traditional China café, Dim Sum spot in HongKong at 1980.

photo at 1959, Hongkong.

Hong Kong 1970’s. Photograph by Greg Girard

History and cultural background is always something that influenced me.

 

Photo by myself in New York.

Multi-tonal brick facade of New York City apartment. I have always loved brick façades. The depth of the façade and rectangular windows look great.

These are shoots that my friends did in HONGKONG, it is a very local area when the buildings are quite old, again I feel a sense of life here, with time and story.

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There are windows and air conditions. When I looked at this image, I was imagining the living conditions behind these windows, they are variously different, however they might present a similar lifestyle, it is very closely to life and living and humanity.

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Color blocking

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Yellow Wall of building, White concrete stone steps. Great modern architecture photography.

Stanbul’s Colourful Minimalist Architecture by Yener Torun

I love the bright color combinations and the white wall is very outstanding. However, the focal point of this image to me is the people with red umbrella.

painting by Franz Kline

Abstraction and illusion.

Photo by myself. 

Photos by ,myself while traveling.

Red and Grey is a combination that reminds me of my cultural religion, what is inside me and where I am coming from. Everyone have different background, and it should be really impactful to who you are. 

Winter inn Beijing. Vivid gray, traditional gray.

Photos by myself.

Lazy and cozy

Photos by myself.

There is a sense of innocence in these two images which makes me kind envy about, sometimes I feel like it is too fast to grow up and we suddenly lost all the innocences through growth.

Photos by myself.

Life, color, sunshine and light, positive energy.

Photos by myself.

Perspective.

I like to travel and I am more enjoy to take photos while traveling, everyday is a new experience and I think these memories/information is very important to each individual, and it is also a very useful way for me to build up my personal archives.

Design Statement

Yanting Yao

I like Minimal, but not limited to be as less as possible. For me, minimal is another form of enrich. Shopping was one of my habit, and that keeps my strong relationship with clothing and fashion, and that extend my passion. For many people, clothes don’t have other meaning rather than a piece of fabric that covers your body, it categorized as a functional object. But for me is another form of art. It is about creativity, there is personality and story involve. For most of times, I get inspirations from myself, my memory and the things I have seen before can triggered me: a feeling that suddenly jump into my mind, a painting that have great color combination, a movie, a song, or a little detail from another garment, etc. I like to see myself from my design, that is more tangible to me.

I don’t really consider myself as a fashion designer, in my definition a real designer is someone like Raf Simons. But I like design, my design philosophy is always coming from a simple thing, and the how to maintain the simplicity and meanwhile elevating into a more composite form. So the construction of a garment is what I always trying to push into my design although it is not easy to achieve. And then, there is color. I like black, it is the most harmonious color, it makes good combination with others. I like to use solid color; I would also apply prints, but they are more like an element to delight my design. I like work with fabric, I have passion on hunting fabrics, in my philosophy the right fabric is the first success of a good design. I would also spend time with textile and material exploration because I like to discover how fabrics enhances the design. Therefore, I am obsessed with details. For me, each finishing and stitches that been applied to the design can makes a huge difference, so I would take big consideration on this part during my design process. Sketching is important, because after design, we need a media to visualized that and also to communicate. However, don’t put much time on sketching, perhaps I really need to work on something physically.

Design, is also a problem-solving process for me. I have to say that from these years of studying, the learning experiences I have gained formed me into a more patient and painstaking person. Which is a good thing, because in real life, things are not easy as well.