After-glow 白熱

Creator

Chan, Tsz Fung, Thomas 陳子豐

Title

After-glow 白熱

Alternative Title

A CONCEPTUAL EXPLORATION ON HK GOVERNMENT'S DESIGN 香港政府出版物的概念性再設計

Subject

Visual Communication -- Design -- Exhibitions

College graduates

Date Created

2019-06-24
2019-06-26

Relation

PolyU Design - Projects gallery

Format

Photographs

Identifier

ASSD2019BACDD03P001

ASSD2019BACDD03P002

ASSD2019BACDD03P003

ASSD2019BACDD03P004

Is Part Of

BA (Hons) in Communication Design

Description

After-glow 白熱

Self reflection and cognition is always the starting point of forming a sense of identity. The research result from this project have shown that one of the reason causing a relatively low sense of identity from Hong Kong people is the lack of media to form such a reflection. In the field of design, government initiatives have always been one of the main media to show one city’s, country’s identity, unfortunately, the research result also show that majority of the citizen do not agree the current government design is showing what Hong Kong really is.

The strict limitations of government initiatives also limit the design idea, and harder to resonate with the citizen.

“Incandesece” is a physics phenomenon refers to a metal being heated to a temperature and forming visible light. The hotter the metal is, the softer it is, and a brighter light formed from the phenomenon, so Incandesece usually appears when forging a metal, as the worker needs to heat the metal to its softest point so as to reshape the metal. This project uses Incandesece as the metaphor to represent the status of the current Hong Kong people’s sense of identity, being in the most least solid point. Though, what we should focus is how we continue to treat and reshape our own identity, a good “craftsmanship” may change the most fragile identity into a toughest sense of identity.

白熱化，指事態發展到最緊張、關鍵的狀態。這個名詞源自一個物理現象 ——「白熱」。

「白熱」是指當金屬受熱，到達一千五百度以上的高溫而產生可見光的物理現象。在煅造金屬時，工匠要把金屬加熱到白熱現象出現才開始塑造。金屬愈熱愈不堅硬，能方便工匠將之塑造成不同形狀。是次設計把「香港人的身份認同」比喻為「白熱的狀態」，表達香港人的身份認同已到達最關鍵的階段，而這階段雖然最不堅固，不過也是最容易被重塑。

塑造手勢的好壞能決定金屬成品的密度和形狀；「白熱」以後，最不堅固的身份認同亦能透過重塑變為更堅定。

Tutor: Amy Chow

Collection

PolyU Design Annual Show 2019: beyond the surface = 二〇一九理大設計年展: 表裡以外