“Her text” project is centered around a new female-led conceptual dictionary. Exploring its own
community built for communication and interaction towards the existing language system through collecting, writing, typography, workshop, and publishing. The community continues to collect voices from different women and create
words for each voice through typography design according to the structure of existing
“Nvshu” scripts (A secret language used only among women in ancient China). These voices/words will be centered around how to break the BOUNDARY of
women with a feminist + emotional lens.
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Zhang Shifeng
Rose AntonyCommunity creator
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Henna Tattoo Artist
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Context
Nvshu languague
Láadan Language
"Nvshu" is a gender language
that exists and only used among women in ancient China) Its works were a way for women to lament by communicating sorrows, commiserating over Chinese patriarchy. Laadan is the feminist language of a science fiction novel, including many words adapted to women's emotional and expressive needs.
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“New Nvshu” Typeface Design / The hieroglyphic typeface
My previous work includes my attempts at two forms of the typeface for female language.' The first typeface "New Nvshu" is very similar to the original "Nvshu". The second one is a hieroglyphic typeface based on a collection of women's habitual movements.