East & West by Yang Liu
A Chinese designer, Yang Liu, reflected on her life abroad in Germany by creating a series of placards contrasting East & West. The blue side represents West and red represents East. The image above is on anger: in the West it is explicit, while in the East one maintains a cheery exterior, despite a frustrated interior (excellent observations, as most Western cultures are direct in communication and indirect in Eastern cultures). The image below demonstrates the importance of the boss, and hierarchy, in places like China. In, for example, Germany, the boss treats everyone in a similar manner.
The whole series is a truly remarkable expression of life abroad that offers an entertaining path to cultural awareness. See the rest of the images here on The London Paper’s website.
