DESIGN NAME: Symbolink
PRIMARY FUNCTION: Mythological Book
INSPIRATION: To ease the tension which has derived from the global pandemic issue, it was considered important to conceive about treating world-common sense, which could link everyone.
UNIQUE PROPERTIES / PROJECT DESCRIPTION: Symboink is a series of books that archives imaginations derived from common symbols. Comprised of 3 books with each worldwide symbols(Celestial tree / Water and Fire / Door and key), they convey the intuitive connection between global beliefs.
OPERATION / FLOW / INTERACTION: A book that derives common sense between symbols around the world.
PROJECT DURATION AND LOCATION: The project started in April 2021 and finished in June 2021 in Seoul, Korea. It was exhibited in Ewha Womans University Graduate Exhibition in June 2021.
FITS BEST INTO CATEGORY: Graphics, Illustration and Visual Communication Design
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PRODUCTION / REALIZATION TECHNOLOGY: A print that maximizes the sublime of time, by imposing the textures of old paper processing, undeciphered letters, and interpretations of tradition.
SPECIFICATIONS / TECHNICAL PROPERTIES: (Width) 110mm x (Height) 210mm *3books
TAGS: Book, Font, History, Culture,
RESEARCH ABSTRACT: 1) Intuitional affordance of the historical symbols
2) Signifier-Signified system
3) Progress of religious union between symbolism and mythological language
4) Formed common symbols around the world
5) Affects of the symbol on depth psychology
CHALLENGE: History must not be distorted. It was challenging to objectively organize the transmitted records of history and the relationship of influence between regions.
ADDED DATE: 2021-07-30 06:00:35
TEAM MEMBERS (1) : Yunbee Baek
IMAGE CREDITS: Oluf Olufsen Bagge, <Yggdrasill, the Mundane tree>, 1847 CE.
Jan Cossiers, <Prometheus Carrying Fire>, 1630 CE.
Goguryeo, <White Tiger in the mural of the Goguryeo Tomb> 6-7c. CE.
Maxfield Parrish, <Prometheus>, 1919 CE.
Peter Paul Rubens, <Prometheus Bound >, 1618 CE.
Andreas Cellarius, <Seu Harmonia Macrocosmica>, 1660 CE.
Scandinavian Iron Age, <Bronze Razor depicting Irminsul>, 2.c.BCE.
Holy Roman Empire, <Carved Irmin column in Externsteinen>, 9c–12c.CE.
Heinrich Leutemann <The destruction of the Irminsul by Charlemagne>, 1882 CE.
The Kimberley, Western Australia, <Wandjina Rock Art>, ca. 3000 BCE.
The Kimberley, Western Australia, <Wandjina Rock Art>, ca. 3000 BCE.
Wattie Karruwara, <Wandjina>, 1962 CE.
Emanuel W. Bonavia Assyria, <Illustrations of Assyrian sacred trees>, 1888 CE.
Assyria, <Incised horse frontlet carved into the shape of a flowering, volute palmette tree>, 900–700 BCE.
Assyria, <Pair of eagle-headed protective spirits with Sacred Tree>, 865-860 BCE.
Assyria, <Bull-men flanking deity above sacred tree; winged deity holding horned animal heads>, 800–600 BCE.
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