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    Statement A little about me: I was born and raised in Queens. I love exploring street food fairs during humid summer nights. I’m a sucker for reality TV shows like Survivor, 90 Day Fiance, and Masterchef Australia⁠—they introduce spice into my unremarkable life. I’m also a veteran of horror/thriller movies due to my older brother’s sadist (just kidding) tendencies (he made me watch Shutter and Ringu when I was 8). I also love watching anime and Korean dramas. However, something that's always been true no matter how much my perspective and personality has fluxed over the years is that I've always loved reading books. When I was younger, I was always holed up in the local library in my favorite corner reading away late fees⁠—I would devour poetry, YA fantasy novels, comic books, etc. Later on, when I began experimenting with different art mediums, I realized that while I don't enjoy placing people in my art pieces and could never capture the nuances of what made them special to me, people were always at the heart of my writing. Perhaps that's why I gravitated to graphic design, or more specifically typesetting literature. People change day by day, but books don't: whatever the author felt writing that specific line or choosing a word that rolled on the tongue just right is forever permanent within four borders. Books are like a hometown for the soul—it’s not about where we are from, but where our hearts long for. Using typography with intentionality allows me to attempt to capture that sweet nostalgia and whimsy and allow people to experience the author's writing in refreshing new ways that go beyond text plainly set left aligned with a loose rag.

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    typography, classes, work, graphic design, book, fun, thesis, instance, chinese culture, woodworking, call, anne, love, chinese, indesign, transcribing, treadmill, graphics, font
    “For me, like my parents, whenever they wanted to apologize, or they want to show love, or whatever they come to my room, and they would have a bowl of fruit. And so preparation of food is an act of love in Chinese culture, like, when someone who's Chinese sees you, the first thing they won't say is ‘hi’ but ‘have you eaten yet?’”
    “I also like taking other classes...This semester I'm taking this woodworking class which is really cool. Like I'm trying not to like die. One time in the workshop, he was introducing us to all this equipment, and he's like ‘yeah, with this equipment, once I got something in my eyeball’ and I was like yeah, I'm never gonna touch that.”
    “I have been watching a lot of like, sort of like feel good dramas. There's this like Korean drama they call ‘Hometown Cha-Cha-Cha’. And when I was watching it, it really made me like, want to call my parents. It's like that kind of show. And then like afterwards, I actually did up calling my parents like I was just like watching it while I was on a treadmill. Because I still watch stuff while I'm working out, and I was like watching it. And then afterwards as soon as I walk out the treadmill, I called my family. I was like crying on the treadmill while watching it–it was like kind of hilarious.”
    “I enjoy Japanese graphic design work in general. There's some Swiss typography which is always cool. It's funny because in my classes, in my books the type within it ends up being quite small, because I think I like working with small stuff. So I admire Irma Boom.”
    “So that's what my thesis is about, like, being able to express love through preparation of foods. I'm just exploring that now.”
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    Statement A little about me: I was born and raised in Queens. I love exploring street food fairs during humid summer nights. I’m a sucker for reality TV shows like Survivor, 90 Day Fiance, and Masterchef Australia⁠—they introduce spice into my unremarkable life. I’m also a veteran of horror/thriller movies due to my older brother’s sadist (just kidding) tendencies (he made me watch Shutter and Ringu when I was 8). I also love watching anime and Korean dramas. However, something that's always been true no matter how much my perspective and personality has fluxed over the years is that I've always loved reading books. When I was younger, I was always holed up in the local library in my favorite corner reading away late fees⁠—I would devour poetry, YA fantasy novels, comic books, etc. Later on, when I began experimenting with different art mediums, I realized that while I don't enjoy placing people in my art pieces and could never capture the nuances of what made them special to me, people were always at the heart of my writing. Perhaps that's why I gravitated to graphic design, or more specifically typesetting literature. People change day by day, but books don't: whatever the author felt writing that specific line or choosing a word that rolled on the tongue just right is forever permanent within four borders. Books are like a hometown for the soul—it’s not about where we are from, but where our hearts long for. Using typography with intentionality allows me to attempt to capture that sweet nostalgia and whimsy and allow people to experience the author's writing in refreshing new ways that go beyond text plainly set left aligned with a loose rag.

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