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A close-up, angled shot of a printed document featuring a mix of English and Chinese text. Blue tick marks are handwritten next to several lines of the text.

Weng Nam Yap presents the mundane in the most beautiful booklet

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Date
17 September 2012

As a Birmingham-born London-based writer I know all about different cultural contexts (shut up, they’re VERY different) but my globetrotting pales into insignificance compared to Weng Nam. The Malaysian-born graphic designer now lives and works in The Hague but has also enjoyed stints in Prague and Barcelona. And just as my Brummie roots inform my work (!) Weng combines these various cultural influences with flair and restraint to create beautiful, interesting projects across a range of media. The highlight of his portfolio was this book of seemingly trivial and mundane occurrences in his life recorded during a particular week, but truth be told there’s little wasted time on his (needless to say excellently-designed) website.

A close-up of a printed page with blue text. A underlined heading reads “seven days trivial matters”, followed by an introductory paragraph starting with “Hi, my name is Wengnam Yap”.
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Weng Nam Yap: Seven Days Trivial Matters

A close-up of a white notebook bound with blue thread. The pages feature minimalist text reading “11th tuesday” and “12th wednesday”.
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Weng Nam Yap: Seven Days Trivial Matters

An open book with a blue thread binding. A brown rectangular insert sits on the right page, partially covering the text.
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Weng Nam Yap: Seven Days Trivial Matters

An open book with white pages and a blue spiral binding. Small, scattered photographs and blocks of text are arranged across the spread.
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Weng Nam Yap: Seven Days Trivial Matters

An open book with white pages and a blue thread binding. A large, brown rectangular card is pasted onto the left page, surrounded by small photos and fragments of text.
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Weng Nam Yap: Seven Days Trivial Matters

An open book with a smaller booklet nested inside. Both contain a sparse arrangement of small, square photographs in blue and sepia tones.
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Weng Nam Yap: Seven Days Trivial Matters

An open book with two white pages featuring a scattered layout of small photographs and blocks of text. The images are a mix of blue-toned and warm-toned snapshots, arranged loosely around the pages.
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Weng Nam Yap: Seven Days Trivial Matters

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Rob Alderson

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Rob Alderson is a freelance writer, editor and strategist. He was previously editor-in-chief of It’s Nice That and WePresent, and editor of Design Week. He publishes the newsletter Undo, which tries to make sense of how AI is changing design work, the design process and the design industry.

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