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.

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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

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Set & Lighting Design "Eurydice"
Movement 2 Scene 2 - 1:50 Scale Model

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Set & Lighting Design "Eurydice"
Movement 2 Scene 7 - 1:50 Scale Model

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Set & Lighting Design "Eurydice"
Movement 2 Scene 8 - 1:50 Scale Model

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Set & Lighting Design "Eurydice"
Movement 3 Scene 2 - 1:50 Scale Model

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Set & Lighting Design "Eurydice"
Movement 3 Scene 3 - 1:50 Scale Model

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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.

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MacBook, 2025
22 x 330.8 cm
Digital print on transparent paper, manual

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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

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Design: Ye Chen & Jingyan Chen

Repackaging of Nongfu Sprint Tea, 2025
Digital illustration

Website design: Ye Chen
Product design: Ye Chen, Jingyan Chen