Yichen Gengfolio 26
Editorial design / AR / Moving image

In the Wake

A study of how ruins become living archives, where architecture, memory and natural growth continue to reshape one another.

Year2025
ContextBA Graphic Design final project
FormatPublication, AR and film
RoleIndependent project

A garden emerges from what remains.

The project begins with ruined architecture and asks what happens after a building loses its original function. Open structures gather weather, plants, visitors and new forms of meaning.

The publication combines photography, custom typography and layered print treatments. Moving image and augmented elements extend the book beyond the page, turning still records into a changing environment.

In the Wake publication photographed on a pale background
Final publication / front cover
Quietude spread from In the Wake
Publication spread / Quietude
Unfinished spread with architectural imageryUnfinished spread with architectural drawings and text
Animated layer

The page continues to move.

Vertical motion studies translate the publication's image language into a time-based sequence.

Layered translucent leaf spread from In the Wake
Next project

The Death and Life of Great American Cities

↗