Studio Shot:
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Design & Research:
RELATED DEPARTMENT
Self-Publishing:
Page Bureau
About:
RELATED DEPARTMENT is an independent graphic design practice founded in Shanghai, working with a variety of design forms in response to shifting contexts of post-colonial and digital landscapes. While dedicated to alternative design approaches for image-making and textual production, we also initiate discourses and events like design criticism, exhibitions, distribution, consumption and beyond. In 2018, we founded our self-publishing unit Page Bureau, which releases miscellaneous printed matter and digital files. In 2022, we founded our research division est.dept in New York, which aims to extend, archive and curate our design praxis through the lens of geographical narrative.
Happenings:
Interviews/Feature:
Design Everywhere
Lovers Magazine
Communication Arts
It’s Nice That
Creative Boom
AIGA Eye on Design
Wallpaper
Design 360
Adobe China
BranD Magazine
OpenArt
art book in China
Speaking/Writing:
CM × CM × CM
Being Art Museum, Shanghai
abC × Trigger
OCAT, Shanghai
Why Bilingual? Why Print?
The Mix Place, Shanghai
SPINE 02 – 世界のデザイナーの本棚から
The Graphic Design Review, JAGDA
#### 4-Digit Public Realm
Modern Academy, Shanghai
Approaching Uncertainty – Catherine Griffiths
The Space, Shanghai
CDF v3.5
University of Seoul, Seoul
Bad Talk
Power Station of Art, Shanghai
CDF v1
Tongji University, Shanghai
Exhibitions/Events:
Solidarity Spores
ACC, Gwangju, South Korea
Design against Epidemic, psD
Power Station of Art, Shanghai, China
Printed Matter NYABF
MoMA PS1, New York City, U.S.
Asia as Fiction
Osaka, Japan
On Growing Up in a Chinatown Store
San Francisco, U.S.
CommUNITY, SFDW
San Francisco, U.S.
Florence Design Biennale China
Ningbo, China / Florence, Italy
Shanghai Visual Art & Design Exhibition
Liu Haisu Art Museum, Shanghai
Related Staff:
SCARLETT XIN MENG
Role:
Founder/Creative Director
Bio:
Scarlett holds a BFA in Studio Art from Cornell University and an MFA in Graphic Design from Rhode Island School of Design, and has studied Architecture in Career Discovery program at Harvard Graduate School of Design. She has worked for Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA), Rhode Island School of Design (RISD), China Central Academy of Fine Arts Museum (CAFAM) and other institutions. Scarlett has exhibited her work internationally including TDC62 Traveling Exhibition, AIGA SeeHER, Printed Matter Art Book Fair, Odds & Ends Art Book Fair, San Francisco Design Week, and has received awards including TDC, Core77 Design Awards, Graphis New Talent amongst other awards. She founded RELATED DEPARTMENT in 2017, and has been teaching at SIVA as Adjunct Associate Professor since 2018.
Related Staff:
POLLY ZHENG
Role:
Illustrator/Designer
Bio:
Polly graduated from Beijing Institute of Fashion Technology and has worked as designer at ZUCZUG. She founded FEVER DOG online art shop and FEVER DOG STUDIO in 2016. Polly is actively involved in independent publishing, silkscreen printing, independent comics as well as other artistic practice.
Related Staff:
WANG YIHAO
Role:
Freelance Designer
Bio:
Yihao holds a BFA from School of Design at China Central Academy of Fine Arts (CAFA), and has worked at 702design before joining RELATED DEPARTMENT. His graduation thesis project has been awarded and collected by CAFA. In 2020, Yihao participated in the touring exhibition of New Media Art Biennial “Post-Life” at Chongqing Contemporary Art Museum.
Related Staff:
OTHER
Role:
Past Related Staff
Bio:
Xiaoqi Tan (Freelancer), Anqi Meng (Intern), Zike Tang (Intern), Shika Tang (Junior Designer), Wallis Huang (Intern), Gwen Geng (Intern), Ziwei Zhang (Designer), Connie Chang (Intern), Yu Chenyan (Intern), Baijun Chen (Intern), Huangzhi Tang (Junior Designer), Daphne Spelier (Junior Designer), Mianwei Wang (Junior Designer), Kiro Xie (Freelancer), OlgaZ (Freelancer)
WeChat/Instagram:
RELATEDDEPT
Weibo:
RELATED_DEPARTMENT
Contact Info:
Address:
1st Flr, Building 16, 200 Yueyang Road, Xuhui District, Shanghai, China