WEN CHEN
Creative Technologist & Visual Artist
INDOOR COPENHAGEN
Indoor Copenhagen is an Artists' Book project that explores the tangible memory in visual forms to document the experience in Copenhagen during the pandemic. It is a self-initiated project started during the Erasmus exchange programme at Royal Danish Academy (KADK) in Copenhagen, Denmark, in Spring 2020. I finalised the design and produced it at my home university, London College of Communication (LCC, UAL) in London, UK, in Spring 2021. During the production, I had immense support from the Print Finishing and Book Arts Workshop at LCC to experiment with a wide variety of printing techniques, such as Lithography, Risography, Thermography, Duplex and many more.
Date MARCH, 2021
Category BOOK ART, PRINT, PHOTOGRAPHY, ILLUSTRATION & EDITORIAL
Format 264 PAGE HAND-BOUND BOOk & 1 A2 DOUBLE-SIDED POSTER
Tools LITHOGRAPHY, RISOGRAPHY, DIGITAL PRINT, FRENCH STITCH, ADOBE ILLUSTRATOR, ADOBE INDESIGN & ADOBE LIGHTROOM
Award FINALIST, BEST STUDENT BOOK, BRITISH BOOK DESIGN AND PRODUCTION AWARDS 2021
Feature LCC BA GMD 2021 GRADUATE SHOWCASE
Skimming animation of the whole book. Hand model: María Gómez-Acebo.
Hand-bound details with the pocket containing the posterSpread opened on the map poster. The book block is printed with reprography in full colour. The poster is printed with inkjet.Flat cover with spine on the sketch poster. The map on the cover is printed with Lithography in silver ink. The routes on the map are printed with Risography in yellow ink. The cover is duplex with Munken off-white and GF Smith Colorplan Factory Yellow paper.The folded poster with Copenhagen map and spatial sketches.