The East Asian Graphics Archive

🇺🇸 Discover The East Asian Graphics Archive 💌 Makisa Bronson is a Chinese-American brand strategist, copywriter, and former Decoding Identities student. She is also the co-founder and curator of The East Asian Graphics Archive. With roots in China and the US, Makisa spent much of her life deeply immersed in and inspired by Chinese graphic design, as well as that of Korea and Japan. After searching far and wide for a centralized place on the internet to learn more about East Asian graphic design, she found that it didn’t exist, and quickly partnered with her friend and fellow creative Melisa S. to make it a reality. Together, the two founded The East Asian Graphics Archive: a digital archive of contemporary graphic design made by creatives, studios, and brands from across East Asia and the diaspora. “Our goal is to cultivate a platform that makes it easier for anyone to discover, explore, and learn more about East Asian cultural production”, adds curator and translator Jiwon Kim. To date, the Archive has curated 5 collections featuring over 100 graphic design pieces, sourced from everywhere from Seoul to Shenzhen to Shinjuku. Follow and get to know the project: https://lnkd.in/de4wf2zV

EAGA Collection 4: The New Minimalism East Asia’s visual landscape is known for its embrace of stunningly maximalist, larger-than-life compositions and graphics that practically ooze with richness. In the Eurocentric field of design, however, this manifestation of maximalism is often seen as “too much”: too chaotic, too crowded, too over the top to be taken seriously. Even the term “maximalist” is highly subjective—maximalist to whom, and in relation to what? We curated the EAGA’s fourth collection out of a defiance of the rules that the West imposes on cultural production. There is untold beauty in pushing one’s artistry to the fullest, in capturing every facet of one’s subject in luscious, radiant detail. Nurtured from an unapologetic love of East Asian maximalism, this collection is our devotional to design that—by Western metrics—does too much. Dance at the edge of extravagance with us at https://lnkd.in/eMTReXNB.

EAGA Collection 4: The New Minimalism East Asia’s visual landscape is known for its embrace of stunningly maximalist, larger-than-life compositions and graphics that practically ooze with richness. In the Eurocentric field of design, however, this manifestation of maximalism is often seen as “too much”: too chaotic, too crowded, too over the top to be taken seriously. Even the term “maximalist” is highly subjective—maximalist to whom, and in relation to what? We curated the EAGA’s fourth collection out of a defiance of the rules that the West imposes on cultural production. There is untold beauty in pushing one’s artistry to the fullest, in capturing every facet of one’s subject in luscious, radiant detail. Nurtured from an unapologetic love of East Asian maximalism, this collection is our devotional to design that—by Western metrics—does too much. Dance at the edge of extravagance with us at https://lnkd.in/eMTReXNB.