Code Word Archive
Publication | Typography | Poster | Motion
Print | Digital
2023
Mentors
Sandra Maxa, Hayelin Choi
Forough Abadian, Amelia von Wolffersdorff
Designer
Jia Yu
To thwart censorship on online platforms, many people have created code words to communicate sensitive topics. As a result, people have become metaphorical poets, deciphering each other’s codes, causing some words to lose their original meanings, and some words to disappear.
Code Word Archive imagines a future where there is no longer a censorship mechanism, and the cryptic text of the past becomes a document of future human archaeology. A dictionary and videos become tools for deciphering poetic ciphers, tracing the taboos, and collecting memories of a period of online censorship.
︎︎︎Featured in Dezeen School Shows, 2023
Code Word Archive imagines a future where there is no longer a censorship mechanism, and the cryptic text of the past becomes a document of future human archaeology. A dictionary and videos become tools for deciphering poetic ciphers, tracing the taboos, and collecting memories of a period of online censorship.
︎︎︎Featured in Dezeen School Shows, 2023
Appendix: Preliminary Visual Exploration
Digital Identity Dilemma Alphabet
An interactive web-based piece that explores the challenges, subtle contexts, and layered meanings of digital identity.
This typographic experiment lays a conceptual and aesthetic foundation for continued research.
Prototype (Click to interact – desktop only)