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Source: https://ualshowcase.arts.ac.uk/project/678170/cover

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Xingyu Ling

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I'm a designer for visual communication based in China.

In my personal projects, I frequently utilise graphic design, motion graphics design, book design, and other forms of visual media to address social issues within the humanities that I am deeply concerned about.

I'm a designer for visual communication based in China.

In my personal projects, I frequent...

College London College of Communication

Course MA Design for Visual Communication

Graduation year 2025

This project presents leaked evidence from a fictional company, Applied Humanitics™. You will find a series of its ‘functional supplements’ alongside the company’s own development archive. Together, these objects reveal a cold system that quantifies and distorts human experience.

But a quiet rebellion is happening. A living organism, the slime mould, invades this sterile world. It breaks the system down from the inside and reveals what was lost. We invite you to act as a detective, uncover this story, and ask a critical question: What is the error when the quantification systems we create to understand life begin to override life itself?

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"ERROR" — Book Design inner page display.

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Xingyu Ling

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Xingyu Ling

SPECIAL THANKS TO:

Oliver Wrobel

Elise Amal Connor

Elvira Grob

Gem Smith

June Mineyama-Smithson

Staffs in the workshops of London College of Communication

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## Official page
- https://ualshowcase.arts.ac.uk/project/678170/cover

## External
- tel:+8617621180528
- mailto:to.william.ling@gmail.com
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