Tiange Li (lives and works between Chicago and Madison) is a multimedia artist and designer. After two years of research on contemporary Chinese art history and museology at the Rhode Island School of Design, Tiange is currently an MFA candidate at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
We live in a quick shifting world where different ideology, capitalism and social political power drafting our life today. Tiange’s works question about the fragility of life and what we sacrifice for development and aspiration shaped by the invisible power, cultrally and socially.
EXPERIMENTAL TYPOGRAPHY
- 2024
- 3DTYPE COOK BOOKBlender
The goal of this book primarily explores the possibilities of transforming type into 3D forms through CAD software, from design to fabrication, including research and experimental typography. The types designed here do not have practical functions but aim to explore expressions of type beyond the two-dimensional plane and existing forms in a joyful experimental method.
The book includes three Chapters, Type&Culture, Type&Space, Parametric Type. Each chapter has different focus. In the first chapter, the limitation of representing culures by type was explored, including a visual research of bilingal types in Chinatown Chicago. Thinking about the possibility of create a type carry more cultural characteristcs, 3D Ornament type was designed. In Type
& space, an invesigation of creating type as a object in space was explored. In the last Chapter, parametric design method was applied to create type with grasshoper and geometric node.
Research and works were collected in Professor Taekyeom Lee’s Advanced Typography.
- 2021
- TYPOGRAPHY
- Daur Custom Calendar
The Daur People are a Mongolic ethnic group who have historically resided in the northeast of China. Today, with a population of only thirteen thousand, knowledge of Daur culture and arts is rare. Very few descendants of the Daur still speak their language. The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) has classified the Daur language as endangered in the Atlas of the World’s Languages in Danger. Due to long-term political and economic marginalization, the indigenous written language of the Daur People no longer exists.
This project delved into the origins of the Duar written language, tracing it back to the Khitan Language. Additionally, it explored the traditional Daur ornamentation found in Daur handcrafts, aiming to study and recreate these elements to depict Daur costom visually.
- 2022
- TYPOGRAPHY
- Inside-Out
- Self Publish Book
- 2022
- Out of Control
- Machine-Learning, Style-gan 2
The phrase "out of control" encapsulates a state of uncontrollability, and I employed various methods to illustrate this across three dimensions. While food and stuffed toys typically evoke happiness, I utilized them to underscore the detrimental effects of losing control. Through extreme deformation and distortion showcased in two videos, I emphasized the destructive nature of loss.