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Visual Communication
Degree Show 2021


Doreen Zheng

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Doreen is a Sydney-based designer who enjoys immersing herself in thoughtful, experimental design processes. She loves all things print with growing exploration in interactive and digital design. She spends her time buying pretty books, hoarding nice paper, and having a good cry at the cinemas. For work enquiries or collaborations feel free to get in touch! 
A Forager’s Survival Kit: A survival kit for the influx of mushroom foragers in a speculative future of a devastated landscape. Humans can’t control matsutakes as they only grow on recently disturbed or damaged landscapes. Despite that, people have created a system around matsutakes and found invisible patterns of foraging them. Ask Moonblocks is an interactive experience around an object in the Powerhouse Museum archive. Moonblocks looks at similarities in the way people ask questions online, seeking affirmations and assurance in what they have already decided upon. Link is a publication that explores the temporal and adaptive nature of typography in our environment. It looks at the way people follow and interact with signs and symbols through the exploration of COVID stickers and the similarity of the landscape in the digital space. The Art of Living on a Damaged Planet: Every landscape is haunted by the past ways of life. This web landscape is imbued with tracks and traces of the past allowing users to observe closely and afar, the hauntings of our ruined planet. Using face tracking, this creates a travelling-like experience through the layered landscapes on earth.


UTS School of Design, Faculty of Design
Architecture and Building
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