Open or Die
2011
Poster
The shaping of a person’s character is based on his/her recurring behavior, which is molded by his/her habits. In other words, one’s habits grow in time and eventually shape one’s character, and it is not done in one day. I have lived for half a century. Naturally my habits extended in time and formed who I am now. In my eyes, there are no good or bad characters, and I am not reflecting upon myself at my middle age. As one’s character keeps extending in time, I could understand certain discrepancies do exist in the way of thinking between me and those designers who are 20 or even 30 years younger or older than I am. Therefore, in order to catch up with the world’s changes, I have to be more open-minded and more devoted, otherwise, “there will be no way out” as Premier Wen Jiabao said. That openness does not only refer to a person’s character, but also to every aspect in the world, from a company to a country. It should welcome diversified views and facilitate different styles of working and thinking. When there are different voices, we need to have a big heart to embrace and efforts to study them, otherwise our life will become dull and boring. Whether our GDP may have reached almost 39000 billions or our level of prosperity may have already exceeded Japan and reached close to the United States, our happiness in life is still far more momentous than these figures.
百花齊放／死亡
2011
海報
性格的形塑是基於一種不斷重覆的行為，行為出現慣性，慣性不斷延伸，就成為性格，性格不是一朝一夕能定形的。我活了半個世紀，理所當然受這種不斷延伸的慣性所影響，而建立我今日這種性格。性格沒有好與壞，我也不是到了中年才自我反省。由於性格不斷延伸，跟我相差20年甚至是30年的設計師，思維模式總會有一些差距，所以我只可以更開放、更投入，才能明白世界的變化及轉向，否則就一如溫家寶的說法—只會死路一條。這種開放不單是針對個人性格，放之四海皆為首，由一間公司以至一個國家，應當廣納民意，令百花齊放。不同的聲音需要包容和研究，否則人生就會變得黯淡，無論GDP已經接近39萬億或是我們可能已經超日趕美，人生的幸福比起這些數字都更為重要。