字象万千
Intro
汉字，是中华文明最独特的艺术形式之一。
它既是语言的载体，也是视觉的造物；既承载思想与情感，也蕴藏着关于秩序、结构、空间与时间的美学经验。方寸之间，横竖撇捺彼此构筑，黑与白相互生长，一枚字，往往包藏万象。
字体设计，是一门隐于日常却深刻影响观看与阅读的艺术。人们每日与文字相遇，却鲜少停下脚步，凝视字形本身——那些笔画的粗细、转折、呼吸与留白，如何悄然塑造着我们感知世界的方式。
“字象万千”汇集了字体设计师刘运来的阶段性创作与实践。展览由个人字体设计作品、松山湖盒子美术馆展览标题字体合作项目，以及东莞理工学院字体设计工作坊成果三个部分构成。从个人创作到空间实践，从文字设计到教学共创，展览试图呈现字体不仅作为一种设计工作，更作为一种持续发生的文化实践。
做字，是在有限的方寸之中经营无限的可能；也是在数字时代里，仍以耐心、观察与双手，缓慢雕刻文字的过程。愿观者在笔画之间，看见汉字之美，也看见那万千字象之中，关于人与文字、设计与世界的微妙联结。
艺术家：刘运来
Artist: Liu Yunlai
云坊字室创始人，长沙市创意产业协会副会长，深圳市平面设计协会会员，「Typemeet字体聚」成员。2019毕业于江南大学整合创新设计专业，职业生涯始于汉仪字库，后曾任职于国际字体公司 Black[Foundry]，专注于中文字体的设计与开发。 曾深度参与谷歌黑体（Google Sans）项目，主导其中文部分的智能部件设计与字符质检，并带领团队完成大量字符的制作，为该字体的全球适用性提供了高品质与统一性的保障。作为核心成员，曾为乐高、拳头游戏、迪卡侬等国际品牌开发定制字体，将品牌基因精准转化为独特的视觉语言。 作品多次获得国内外专业奖项认可，包括汉仪“字体之星”专业组一等奖、Award360°年度字体、GUANSHAN 世界非拉丁字体大赛等。目前，个人字体作品“汉仪婉风宋”、“云坊镂空黑体”都已推向市场；此外，另有多款字体正处于产品化流程中，即将陆续面世。
Founder of Yunfang Type Studio, Vice Chairman of Changsha Creative Industry Association, Member of Shenzhen Graphic Design Association and Typemeet.
He graduated from Jiangnan University majoring in Integrated Innovative Design in 2019. He started his career at Hanyi Fonts and later joined the international type foundry Black[Foundry], devoting himself to the design and development of Chinese typefaces.
He took an in-depth part in the Google Sans project, leading the design of smart components and character quality inspection for its Chinese version, and led the team to finish the production of massive characters, ensuring high quality and visual consistency for the font’s global application.
As a core team member, he has developed custom typefaces for international brands including LEGO, Riot Games and Decathlon, accurately translating brand DNA into exclusive visual language.
His works have won numerous domestic and international professional honors, including the First Prize in the Professional Category of Hanyi Type Star Award, Award360° Annual Typography Design, and GUANSHAN World Non-Latin Type Design Competition.
His commercial fonts Hanyi Wanfeng Song and Yunfang Hollow Sans have been officially launched on the market. Multiple other typefaces are undergoing productization and will be released successively.
策展人：许燕转
Curator:
许燕转，诗人、文艺学博士，文艺批评教授，东莞理工学院国际设计学院主要负责人，东莞市批评家协会主席，东莞文艺名家工作室主持人，广东省“艺术乡见”工作室主持人，广东省文艺评论家协会理事，广东省高校“千百十”工程省级人才培养对象。主持国家新闻出版总署重点课题、教育部、省科研课题8项，发表学术论文 30 篇，主要研究方向为文艺研究、当代文学研究等，多篇论文被《人大复印资料》转载。论文专著获澳门人文社科奖一等奖、深圳文艺评论奖优秀奖、广东省第一届政府新闻出版奖一等奖等。任广东省社科联基地辑刊《城市文化评论》编辑部主任，提出“新工业文学”，倡导“新工业文艺评论”。
Poet, Doctor of Literature and Art, Professor of Literary Criticism.
Principal person in charge of the School of International Design, Dongguan University of Technology; Chairman of Dongguan Critics Association; Host of Dongguan Distinguished Literary & Art Master Studio and Guangdong Provincial “Art Rural Encounter” Studio; Director of Guangdong Provincial Association of Literary and Art Critics; Provincial-level candidate of the Guangdong Provincial University “Qian Bai Shi” Talent Cultivation Program.
He has presided over 8 key research projects sponsored by the National Press and Publication Administration, the Ministry of Education and Guangdong Provincial authorities. He has published 30 academic papers focusing on literary theory and contemporary Chinese literature, many of which have been reprinted by Information Center for Social Sciences of Renmin University of China.
His papers and monographs have been awarded the First Prize of Macau Humanities and Social Sciences Award, Excellence Award of Shenzhen Literary Criticism Award, First Prize of the 1st Guangdong Provincial Government Press and Publication Award, among other honors.
Serving as Editorial Director of Urban Culture Review, the journal of the Social Science Federation Research Base of Guangdong Province, he put forward the concept of “New Industrial Literature” and advocates the practice of “New Industrial Literary and Art Criticism”.
