While Chinese characters were originally pictographic, most of the current versions have been simplified to the point where you can’t recognize their origins. We recently came across an interesting take on Chinese pictographic characters in the form of food-related words. Shanghai-based Win tipped us off to her wonderful designs which cover characters including seafood, vegetables, meat, and fruit. For each character, some element or stroke of the character has been stylized in the form of the object it represents.
Win admits this work is influenced by the Japanese designer Hiromura Masaaki’s food characters and embarked on the project as an experiment. Performing the exercise, Win discovered that simplified characters have removed a lot of the original meaning from characters and it can be hard to capture their essence with pictographs.
For more from Win on NeochaEDGE, link here. /// SL
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