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Drawn Magazine Exhibition

This exhibition centers on DRAWN magazine and explores the concept of “Naturally Imaginative” through a spatial intervention inside LONFOOD, a light meal restaurant in Shenzhen. The 323-page, ocean-themed publication was re-edited and visually restructured, with selected excerpts placed into a custom-built central table. In this setting, reading becomes ambient—something that happens between conversations, within everyday rhythms. Titled People Mountain People Sea, the project gestures toward both the vastness of natural landscapes and the collective flow of human thought and emotion. At its core, the exhibition asks: when a magazine leaves the page and enters physical space, how might it be read again—differently, and together?

2021 · Lonfood · Food & Beverage

Exhibition Curation · Graphic Design · Exhibition Display

Curation Taki Zhao/ Yifan Xu · Design Taki Zhao

Drawn Magazine Exhibition
Drawn Magazine Exhibition
Drawn Magazine Exhibition

At the center of the display, a turquoise-toned panel is embedded—evoking the calm surface of water and echoing the magazine’s narrative of ocean, tides, and emotional drift. The spatial presentation emphasizes a grounded, horizontal reading posture and a quiet visual rhythm. Through the tactility of paper, intentional use of whitespace, and a controlled exhibition cadence, the experience unfolds somewhere between an exhibition and the rituals of everyday life.

Drawn Magazine Exhibition
Drawn Magazine Exhibition
Drawn Magazine Exhibition
Drawn Magazine Exhibition

Menu as Medium — A visual and sensory extension of the exhibition narrative. For the exhibition, LONFOOD introduced two sea-inspired specials. Designed as part of the overall narrative, the menu adopts the exhibition’s visual rhythm—echoing the editorial tone through restrained typography, generous spacing, and material clarity—offering a quiet extension from printed matter to palate.

Drawn Magazine Exhibition
Drawn Magazine Exhibition
Drawn Magazine Exhibition
Drawn Magazine Exhibition
Drawn Magazine Exhibition

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