About this Item

Title
StereoTYPE Me
Contributor Names
Ho-Lee, Veronica (Creator, Designer)
Graff, Sondra (Thesis advisor)
Date
2025
Summary/Artist Statement
This project revisits the Chinese Exclusion Act and brings it into a modern context, using fonts and graphic styles reminiscent of old Chinese restaurant and takeout boxes, and printed on a traditional Chinese shirt. Viewers are invited to consider stereotypes that have been associated with Chinese and Chinese American people. Various voices recount their personal experiences living in America, including immigrants from Hong Kong and the following generation of American-born Chinese.
Graphic Design Type: Printed traditional Chinese shirt, Vinyl type, Video
Type
Still Image
Moving Image
Textile printing
Video recordings (physical artifacts)
Medium
Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe After Effects, vinyl, vinyl cutting, printing, handwriting, stamp pad ink, gel pen
Medium (Terms)
Vinyl
Printing (process)
Handwriting
Inkpads
Gel pens
Graphics software
Adobe Photoshop
Adobe Illustrator (Computer file)
Adobe After effects
Course/Degree Information
Program/Degree: Graphic Design BFA
Course: GD 492 Senior Thesis Project
Semester: Spring 2025, Semester 8
Professor: Sondra Graff
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Identifier
FIT Repository ID: gd_000209

Citation

Ho-Lee, V. (2025). StereoTYPE Me. FIT Institutional Repository. https://institutionalrepository.fitnyc.edu/item/632316
Ho-Lee, Veronica. StereoTYPE Me. 2025. FIT Digital Repository, https://institutionalrepository.fitnyc.edu/item/632316
Ho-Lee, Veronica. "StereoTYPE Me." FIT Digital Repository, 2025. https://institutionalrepository.fitnyc.edu/item/632316