The Prelude Exhibition of The First Shanghai Graphic Design Biennale – TopoPoster: International Poster Design Exhibition, after six months (June – December, 2025) of planning and preparation, was successfully held from December 13 to December 22, 2025. As one of the larger-scale exhibitions in recent years featuring an international selection of works in China, it showcased over 300 representative poster designs from 153 influential contemporary designers and studios active in the forefront of the field across 28 countries.

"Feel this it's still warm"

For Xingyun Shen’s beautiful graduation project, we designed her thesis publication and printed matter to connect with the audience. After designing the publication (TBA) I wanted to find another way to show some parts of the beautiful and necessary writing she had made. Hence these posters that you see before you.

All elements for the work come from her waipo's (grandma) clothing, who passed away. Xingyun worked, researched and cared for the clothing. In turn we scanned the garments for save keeping and from those scans took all the colours, elements and inspirations for the work.

Notably the remaining gray hairs of her grandmother were used as the guiding element in the work.

Kasper Quaink

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