Project by: Raven Huang (@rh_ruiqihuang)
In designing this poster, I approached the familiar Mickey symbol not as an icon of joy, but as a rigid biological shell constructed by consumerism that restricts individual identity. To translate this critique visually, I applied a heavy Gaussian blur to the background image, liquefying the icon’s clean vector lines and turning it into an ambiguous, fading artifact. I then counteracted this visual dissolution with the precision of architectural drafting. Utilizing a modular grid in InDesign, I structured the English translation of “The All-Is-Well Song” into rigid, technical columns, mimicking spatial specifications. To heighten the sense of a redacted archive, I used white blocks to obscure key phrases, while the metadata and custom-coded serial numbers impose a cold order over the blurred red canvas. This direct collision between rational geometry and liquefied imagery embodies my continuous process of measuring and dissecting how consumer fictions actively build the world we inhabit.
