Keming Chen
I am a graphic designer interested in how visual communication can reveal experiences that are often difficult to see or articulate. My practice is research-led and experimental, with a particular focus on time, everyday behaviour, digital culture and the relationship between people and technology.
I often work through typography, publication, image-making and material experimentation, using processes such as repetition, distortion, touch and accumulation to develop visual systems from research. Rather than treating graphic design simply as a way of presenting information, I see it as a method of investigation — a way to question familiar experiences and translate abstract ideas into physical and visual forms.
My current work explores how contemporary digital life influences our perception, behaviour and relationship with time.
Temporal Alienation and Acceleration
This project explores how digital acceleration and constant screen interaction are reshaping our perception of time. Through experiments involving accelerated reading, fingerprints, repeated screen viewing and the physical wear and tear of typefaces, digital behaviours are transformed into visible traces. These experiments ultimately took the form of a visual archive and a publication, intended to be read in conjunction with the carefully designed typographic notes on the preceding pages. The increasingly compact typographic layout reflects repetition, acceleration and a sense of temporal alienation.
The loose-leaf edition uses textured paper with warm tones to create a more archival-like experience with a rich tactile quality, highlighting the traces of materials and unique moments within the project.
Wiring binding presents the project as a consistent manual, highlighting the progression, accumulation and accelerating rhythm of the pages.
