Workshop, Branding 2024 Societies internationally have become increasingly diverse as they experience more cultural exchange. It should be embraced for personal and soceital benefit, but an individual can often feel inertia when they engage with the unfamiliar, especially when it comes to the sensitivities associated with ‘other’ cultures.
CRXSS is a typography-based workshop that oversees participants in learning the systems of various scripts to devise their own blend with one they’re familiar with, bringing them on a journey to cross the gap between familiar and unfamiliar and begin to embrace multiculturalism.
CRXSS Workshop Series
A series of workshops were conducted in-person and online with largely monolingual individuals; discussions and collaborations quite naturally occured between participants. The sessions operated as cultural exchanges in exploring various scripts from all over the world.</media-item>/media-item><</media-item>
The workshop’s run extended into 2025 for public participation as part of Save The World Club Charity’s Lunar New Year celebrations. It was modified to be incorporated as part of a chinese ink painting workshop, focusing on East Asian scripts.
< Workshop Outcomes
Instructional pamphlet
Collation of partcipant work
Cross-scriptual name leaflets
CRXSS map
Process
The scriptual aspect of the project stemmed from an initial exploration in the Chinese name seals—the interest of one’s sense of connection with their ethnicity and physical manifestations of identity A traditional Chinese name seal and its ink imprint An early experiment in carving a wooden name seal Further research led to the discovery of China-born, Beijing & New York-based
artist—Xu Bing. His Square Word Calligraphy practice bridges the gap between Chinese and latin scripts.
The concept of bridging two cultural worlds drove the project’s continued direction. It was expanded further through the introduction of scripts from around the world and tested on multilingual peers to workshop the initial idea.Xu Bing’s Square Word Calligraphy system Conceptual mind-mapping Read the full process report!