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“nodate Square” can be seen as a stamp album, photo album, or certificate folder. Readers are free to rearrange images and text—there is no linear logic to the reading experience.
“nodate Square” adopts a strategy of separating image and text: the artbook carries the visuals, while the website hosts the written content. The physical book is designed in A3 format, unfolding like a portfolio to reveal a full-spread illustration of a plaza by artist Chen Ching-Yuan. The visual narrative begins at a central fountain. Designer Yi Xuan Lu employs a card-inserting format to integrate the images, creating nine different fold-out pages. Readers can freely insert these into nine slots, navigating between visual-textual dialogue and hands-on interaction, adjusting the narrative perspective like focusing a camera lens.
If you’re curious about the full picture of “nodate Square”, take a closer look at our specially designed box-style website: https://nodate.club/. There, you can read four essays that reflect on shifts in cultural ecology across eras—how the cultural sphere negotiates the public nature of discourse and the independence of expression, how cultural media and awards shape personal career paths, and how these dynamics help to better understand the complete vision of “nodate Square”.
How can we discuss the layered packaging of serious topics? In an era where public discourse on cultural issues is increasingly entangled with speech, social networks, and algorithms, can we still view it as a linear progression of evolution? As the structure of the cultural ecosystem shifts across different eras, how does the cultural sphere perceive the publicness of discourse and the autonomy of expression? “nodate Square” constructs a parallel space—a "plaza"—in an attempt to bring form, subject, and voices back to an era of unfiltered, outspoken dialogue.
Text and images: Courtesy of nodate.
