Yi Hua Lin’s graphic posters are inspired by the seas and mountains of Taiwan

The Taipei-based designer takes from the sounds of indigenous Taiwanese music and views from the natural world to construct her playgrounds of shape and colour.

Date
18 June 2024

When talking about the creative process behind her exquisitely composed graphic collages, Yi Hua Lin tells us: “I create almost unconsciously, similar to free writing. These colours and patterns emerge on their own.” Reduced fragments of her home's landscapes, these digital drawings are completed with hand drawn calligraphy and illustrations. The graphic designer’s map-like abstractions and gatherings of dynamic shapes are products of “the energy I gain from nature”, she says.

If you look a little closer, in the small print of Yi Hua’s pleasing posters live tiny love letters to the natural world and quiet messages for environmental protection. Her work The future ocean has no fish shouts: ‘don’t let marine life become mythology’ in a small line of type hidden in a sea of blue above her floating forms. “Environmental protection is often not an interesting or attractive topic,” the designer says. So, it is through her work that she hopes to make viewers curious about nature, and encourage them to reconnect with it. She explains: “When you become curious about nature, you will want to get closer to it. When you get closer to it, you will fall in love with it, and then you will want to protect it [...] I believe that instead of lecturing people about the importance of environmental protection, it is better to let them fall in love with nature on their own.”

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Yi Hua Lin: The future ocean has no fish (Copyright © 018athome, 2024)

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Yi Hua Lin: Pray for Hualien (Copyright © Yi Hua Lin, 2024)

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Yi Hua Lin: About the process of lightning (Copyright © 018athome, 2024)

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Yi Hua Lin: Sudden rain (Copyright © 018athome, 2024)

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Yi Hua Lin: Night night sun (Copyright © 018athome, 2024)

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Yi Hua Lin: Night night sun (Copyright © 018athome, 2024)

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Yi Hua Lin: Island Adventures (Copyright © 018athome, 2023)

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Yi Hua Lin: Fire (Copyright © 018athome, 2023)

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Yi Hua Lin: Five meters under water (Copyright © 018athome, 2024)

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Yi Hua Lin: Ayurveda (Copyright © 018athome, 2024)

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Yi Hua Lin: Ayurveda (Copyright © 018athome, 2024)

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Yi Hua Lin: ARK (Copyright © 018athome, 2024)

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Ellis Tree

Ellis Tree (she/her) joined It’s Nice That as a junior writer in April 2024 after graduating from Kingston School of Art with a degree in Graphic Design. Across her research, writing and visual work she has a particular interest in printmaking, self-publishing and expanded approaches to photography.

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