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Three large black posters display white wireframe figures by Antony Gormley. The figures are shown in different poses: crouching, squatting and standing. People walk past the displays on a city pavement.

Measured design by Yerina Cha with a deft, all-things-considered application

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Date
11 July 2012

Here’s a portfolio of consistently strong graphic design, with thoughtfully measured information that doesn’t clutter or clump the poster layout or billboard or app or however its designer applies it. It’s is nice then that Yerina Cha, the individual responsible, studied fine art before design – it suggests that her experience with conceptual content means that there is that much more emphasis on the aesthetic experience of data, or typographic message.

Take, for example, the Another Singularity design for Anthony Gormley’s exhibition at the Hammer Museum; working across all of the shows collateral from billboards to books, Yerina’s design takes into consideration the nature of Gormley’s work, which “explores the relation of the human body to space at large”, and has converted it into her own graphic, manipulatable vernacular that could be used dynamically across the board – including an exhibition app so that the public might interact with it too.

The appeal of the design is in its carefully reduced aesthetic that belies some series layout skills and an equally deft handling of interesting cultural content on one hand and something like DIY product branding on the other.

A poster for an exhibition by Antony Gormley features a grey, wire-mesh figure curled into a crouched position against a black background. Vertical text along the left edge reads “CONSTRUCTED ATAXIA”, the artist’s name, the dates “03.02.2012 – 05.12.2012” and a website address. The word “HAMMER MUSEUM” is split across four lines in the bottom right corner.
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Yerina Cha: Another Singularity

An open book with a bright yellow cover and pages. The right page is white with the words “ANOTHER SINGULARITY” printed in small, grey capital letters in the centre.
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Yerina Cha: Another Singularity

A person's head and shoulders are tightly wrapped in clear plastic film, obscuring their features. To the right, a block of text provides a biography and analysis of the artist Antony Gormley.
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Yerina Cha: Another Singularity

An open book shows a page of text alongside a fold-out spread of pencil sketches. The drawings include various abstract forms, a small building, and a detailed diagram of a figure.
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Yerina Cha: Another Singularity

An open book featuring a spread of text and images. Three photographs show sculptures by Antony Gormley, including a large, dark figure standing in a concrete room and a group of reclining figures.
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A graphic design sheet featuring a collection of blue and white logos, dates and typographic elements. The layout includes the “AmDC” wordmark, the text “American Design Club” and the dates “8.13 – 8.18”.
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Yerina Cha: AmDC gift fair (produced at Studio Lin)

An infographic titled “Biodegradation Timeline” displays various everyday objects arranged by how long they take to decompose. Items move from left to right, starting with organic materials that take “2–4 weeks” and ending with plastics and glass that take “500 years–forever” or are “unknown”.
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Yerina Cha: Biodegradation

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Bryony was It’s Nice That’s first ever intern and worked her way up to assistant online editor before moving on to pursue other interests in the summer of 2012.

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