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Shuli Zheng

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Shuli is a designer from Hangzhou, China, currently a part of Knoll Brand Design Team. She holds a BFA in Industrial Design at BIFT and her MFA in Communications Design at Pratt Institute. Previously, she was contributing at IIIXL Studio and Pratt Institute. Welcome to Shulibrary!

Relimoji Universe



Individual Project

·    Motion Design
·    Game Design
·    Coding
·    Poster Design

The idea of Relimoji derived from an experience I visited the National Museum of China. In that museum, I saw a Gong which is a wine container and was used for sacrificial ceremonies in Shang Dynasty. That shape and appearance seemed intriguing to me. What worth to be mentioned is that in ancient times this container was so solemn and was a part of the sacred atmosphere. People at that time deemed it a holy and inviolable thing but as a person in the modern age, I just feel it is cute and just like a new kind of creature. I think this kind of difference and contrast is just fascinating.

So I continued to find out other relics with either amusing or cute or vivid facial expressions.I extracted amusing and vivid facial expressions of cultural relics from different ages and regions. I gave the assets I made a name called Relimoji, which is a combination of cultural relics and emoji. I use them to create poster series and this Relimoji Universe video. Also, I use the Relimoji assets to create a p5.js game called Human Civiliaztion Breader.