Bilingual Designer Manifesto

DREAM LABOR PRESS

Dream Labor Press is a self-publishing collective founded by a group of Chinese female graphic designer-authors who are based in the United States and China. Our work focuses on storytelling and fiction-making in the liminal space between places and identities.

By means of zines, artist books and other small publications, we play with objects, symbols and memories. We endeavor to communicate layered narratives that resonate with different walks of audiences and to push the boundaries of design.

CURRENT MEMBERS

Doris Liu
Zia Qian
Lexi Xu
Lihao Zhu
Zhenyu Zhou

FAIRS & EVENTS
Brooklyn Art Book Fair, 2024
Other Islands Book Fair, 2024
打开——Open M Art Fair by abC, 2024
Multiple Formats Art Book Fair, 2024
Press Play by Pioneer Works, 2023
Detroit Art Book Fair, 2023

STOCKISTS
Accent Sisters Studio
MCBA Online Shop

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Email

Lihao Zhu
2022

4.25 x 5.5 inch (unfolded to 11 x 17 inch)
Single-sheet zine, risograph printing

A manifesto declares the challenges and responsibilities of Mandarin-English bilingual designers.

Written in Simplified Chinese and English, different versions of the manifesto are printed on tabloid-size and transparent posters and layered together to allow for a bilingual reading experience. On the other side of the poster, a one-page zine further explains the objective of the manifesto. The duotone zine is RISO-printed in teal and bubblegum pink.

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