HYPERICON
2025
INTERFACE
HYPERICON is a visual research project exploring how contemporary culture produces, consumes, and overloads us with symbols. Starting from two contrasting images (a national romantic painting and a neon-lit Hong Kong street) I examined how visual languages encode identity, tradition, capitalism, and overstimulation, raising a broader question: Are we moving toward a better era, or simply a noisier one?
What began as an editorial idea evolved into an experimental process. Through maximalist icon compositions, and semiotic analysis, the project shifted from designing a publication to building a participatory tool: an interactive web that allows users to paint and write using globally recognizable cultural symbols.
A Playground filled with icons.
The tool includes two modes Brush and Type inviting users to create chaotic visual layers or compose text with an alphabet built from everyday icons. Using the tool, I generated a collection of posters, each embracing saturation, noise, and visual excess as deliberate design strategies. These outcomes extended into print and installation: a flipbook translating digital overload into motion, a wall to paste sticky icons, and the interactive tool itself as part of the exhibition. Instead of offering a single conclusion, the project turns symbolic overload into an experience, one that invites viewers to question how we navigate a world saturated with signs, and what this reveals about our collective identity.
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A PLAYGROUND FILLED WITH ICONS.
The tool includes two modes Brush and Type inviting users to create chaotic visual layers or compose text with an alphabet built from everyday icons. Using the tool, I generated a collection of posters, each embracing saturation, noise, and visual excess as deliberate design strategies. These outcomes extended into print and installation: a flipbook translating digital overload into motion, a wall to paste sticky icons, and the interactive tool itself as part of the exhibition. Instead of offering a single conclusion, the project turns symbolic overload into an experience, one that invites viewers to question how we navigate a world saturated with signs, and what this reveals about our collective identity.
HYPERICON
HYPERICON is a visual research project exploring how contemporary culture produces, consumes, and overloads us with symbols. Starting from two contrasting images (a national romantic painting and a neon-lit Hong Kong street) I examined how visual languages encode identity, tradition, capitalism, and overstimulation, raising a broader question: Are we moving toward a better era, or simply a noisier one?
What began as an editorial idea evolved into an experimental process. Through maximalist icon compositions, and semiotic analysis, the project shifted from designing a publication to building a participatory tool: an interactive web that allows users to paint and write using globally recognizable cultural symbols.
2025
INTERFACE
