Mei Shuzhi
Mei Shuzhi founded 702design in Beijing in 2010, where he serves as the artistic director.He draws inspiration from everyday life, seeking freshness and playfulness to explore new possibilities for design in daily contexts.
His works have garnered numerous accolades, including the New York ADC 96th Annual Awards Gold Prize, Tokyo TDC Prizes, the Special Prize and Gold Prize at the DFA Design for Asia Awards 2019, the GDC Best Awards and Jury Award, and the Gold Award at Award 360°, among others.
In 2023, Mei co-founded X Sign Space, where he served as initiator and co-curator for exhibitions such as "Big, or Small”，“Buy-in” and “THE WONDERLAND OF ARTIST’S BOOKS”. Between 2021 and 2024, he hosted a series of solo exhibitions titled Typography Exit（1-5）, and in 2024, he was honored as Wallpaper's Designer of the Year.
702design is an exploratory design studio. We find fresh and interesting elements from daily life, keep questioning and independent thinking, support design practice in experimental ways, to make design play a bigger role in life.
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Material | Paper
This work takes wrapping paper—a material typically regarded as secondary in everyday contexts—as the experimental subject to probe the boundaries of materiality. By exploring the subtle combinations and presentations of various printing techniques on paper surfaces, it reveals a vitality that surpasses the physical thinness of the material itself.
It replaces visually dominant traditional expressions with micro-narratives that intertwine color, texture, and temperature across multiple dimensions. Wrapping paper is no longer merely a tool for covering or concealing; instead, through repeated folding and unfolding, it is continuously redefined with new notions of “appearance” and “interiority.”
In this piece, material serves as a physical boundary between the known and the unknown. In an almost silent manner, it questions the intersection between matter and emotion, responding to an ongoing search for fragility, freedom, and the meaning of existence in a constantly shifting world.
