The old street and lanes,house and gardens in the old time,is distinguished by the visual characters. Now if you live in the dowtow,to recognize your own house,you need the road guide,but your house Rm 506 at Dr 3,not so different from the Rm 708 at Dr 5. To find someone,or back to home,you have to remember your room number.

The modern consume,what you need is not the judge to the goods,but depend on your understanding to the brand and grade. To all the modern communications,like fight,train,if you don¡¯t understand the symbol,you can't find your way. Especially when you are in the express way,you will lost your target if you don¡¯t care the symbol very much.Symbol and sign,become the counterpoint of modern types and standardization. Each tache of the ordinary livings,every production,produce a corresponding symbol. The society change from the tradition visual identification to symbolic identification. The modernist can't live without symbol.
Guan Fengdong,who was born in Xi'an ,approved in professional exams of Fine Arts College of Tsinghua University but he quit it. After working and drawing in Shanghai from2004 to 2006. He moved to Beijing in 2006 and began to create his 'Symbol Life'...