VCA DESIGN & PRODUCTION
GRADUATE SHOWCASE
GRADUATE SHOWCASE
Set & Lighting Design "Eurydice"
Movement 3 Scene 2 - 1:50 Scale Model
Sarah Ruhl's Eurydice explores the fragility of memory and love, and the transitions between different worlds. My design interprets this concept through a suspended, layered stage structure. Key visual elements include the fluid layering between levels and ornate Baroque and Rococo-inspired décor, which collectively express the connection and contrast between the two worlds. The play offers opportunities for spatial transformation to evoke shifts in memory, while the design supports this by constructing moments of intimacy and isolation within visual language. My design responds to these opportunities through stage connections and interior ornamentation, employing irregular junctions and opulent decoration to reveal distinctions between realms from memory to void, from love to oblivion.
Image: Ye Chen
Set & Lighting Design "Eurydice"
1:50 Scale Model
Storyboard with lighting design
My lighting design contrasts two worlds through shifting layers of light. Adjustable chandeliers and ceiling lights create distinct atmospheres of warmth or solitude, while the hidden illumination of the upper level defines the transformations of the underworld. Light filtering through windows forms a Tyndall effect, symbolising fragments of memory. These shifting patterns of light and shadow reflect Eurydice's journey between life, love, and oblivion.
Image and editor: Ye Chen
Set & Lighting Design "Eurydice"
Movement 1 Scene 5 - 1:50 Scale Model
Image: Ye Chen
Set & Lighting Design "Eurydice"
Movement 2 Scene 2 - 1:50 Scale Model
Image: Ye Chen
Set & Lighting Design "Eurydice"
Movement 2 Scene 7 - 1:50 Scale Model
Image: Ye Chen
Set & Lighting Design "Eurydice"
Movement 2 Scene 8 - 1:50 Scale Model
Image: Ye Chen
Set & Lighting Design "Eurydice"
Movement 3 Scene 2 - 1:50 Scale Model
Image: Ye Chen
Set & Lighting Design "Eurydice"
Movement 3 Scene 3 - 1:50 Scale Model
Image: Ye Chen
MacBook, 2025
42 x 59.4 cm
Digital print, AI - generated image
My copy of a copy project is making a book about MacBook. It is inspired by screen printing and colour overprinting, exploring how images are created through the construction and superimposition.
My project employing copy as a metaphor, depicts the copy of using AI’s iterative process and the migration of printing colour CMYK, copying out the RGB - coloured. It conveys the boundary between design originality and copy, and the significance between process and outcome.
Image and design: Ye Chen
MacBook, 2025
22 x 330.8 cm, 11.4 x 16 cm
Digital print on transparent paper and semi - tracing paper, manual
Utilising AI-generated images of MacBook components, each page features RGB - coloured (Red, Green, Blue) disassembled MacBook components. These pages interconnect to form a continuous, long scroll, which presents the reconstruction from fragments to a unified whole that reconstructs the MacBook’s form. Poster and paging booklet present multiple iterations and the space that superimposition could play in the MacBook through RGB - coloured.
Image: Ye Chen
MacBook, 2025
22 x 330.8 cm
Digital print on transparent paper, manual
Image: Ye Chen
MacBook, 2025
11.4 x 16 cm
Digital print on semi - tracing paper, manual
Image: Ye Chen
Branding: LeaFest Festival, 2025
29.7 x 42 cm
Digital print, illustration
Image and design: Ye Chen
Branding: Rebrand of Lionel's Cafe, 2025
10.5 x 14.8 cm, 14.8 x 21 cm, 21 x 29.7 cm
Digital print, illustration
Image and design: Ye Chen
Repackaging of Nongfu Sprint Tea, 2025
Digital Print on coated paper, manual
Image: Ye Chen
Design: Ye Chen & Jingyan Chen
Repackaging of Nongfu Sprint Tea, 2025
Digital illustration
Website design: Ye Chen
Product design: Ye Chen, Jingyan Chen
Ye Chen is a graduated of the Bachelor of Design course , major in Performance Design and Graphic Design. She is passionate about exploring creative design, transforming abstract concepts into tangible visual forms to communicate effectively with the world.
Her interests in photography and craftsmanship, alongside her diverse artistic studies, inspire her to fuse different approaches in exploring innovative concepts and practising the creation of more impactful art and design.