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Space to Place

(2025)

Space to Place explores how neutral spaces become places through everyday presence, memory, and sensory experience. The project focuses on temporary residents and their relationship with public and semi-public environments: cafés, streets, transitional interiors. These are not treated as fixed locations, but as emotional containers shaped by time, repetition, and personal ritual.

Type

Print Design
Editorial Layout
Interview Design
Illustration
Visual Storytelling

Role

Researcher
Designer
Illustrator

Overview

This project begins with a question: How are temporary residents shaped by transient dwellings and past memories in their sense of identity and self-awareness?

The research is set against the backdrop of contemporary mobile lifestyles, focusing on the lived experiences of international students and long-term temporary residents in cities like London. It explores how empathy deepens our understanding of belonging, and positions public spaces as temporary sites for constructing a sense of place and identity. Through illustration, text, and spatial composition, the work translates intangible atmospheres into visual language.

The publication is divided into four chapters. The first opens with a conversation between two people. The second addresses the inspiration behind the project. The third draws together responses from interviews. The fourth outlines the research and intentions that underpin the work.

In form, the publication takes the shape of a three-dimensional space flattened into a two-dimensional surface, split into two halves. The left side uses parentheses ( ) to create space for the reader to add their own notes or responses. The right side carries narrative illustration. This structure naturally divides the content in two, allowing readers to move through the publication freely rather than following a fixed page order. Reading becomes more dynamic, no longer bound to a page-by-page sequence.

The choice of materials is deliberate. The inner pages use Pergamenata White wallpaper, a paper with a translucent quality that lends itself to layered compositions. This translucency gives the interior a sense of spatial depth, allowing images and text to show through between pages, echoing the way spaces overlap and accumulate in memory. To read the publication is also to touch a wall.

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The packaging is made from the same paper as the publication's cover and back cover, Cairn Board Indigo, 325gsm, so the outer packaging and the publication share one continuous material language.

Beyond its thickness, this board was chosen for its structural capacity. It fully encloses a 28×28cm publication without the top and bottom panels sagging, and it retains enough rigidity to support cut-out details without losing strength.

This weight and surface also carry a quieter meaning. The board's density and texture recall the surface of a building's exterior wall, echoing the project's focus on public space and atmosphere. Under the idea of fluid dwelling, that home is never fixed, only ever in motion, the deep indigo evokes a night sky. Wherever you move to next, you are always looking up at the same one.

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Paper type:
Caim Board Indigo 325gsm
Wallpaper 130gsm
Pergamenata White 230gsm
Pergamenata Natural 110gsm

Package 33x33cm
Publication 28x28cm

Digital print
Single sided printing
Spiral roll binding