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(Un)finishedness

Jian-Xin Wang (王 健鑫)
2025–2026
Master in Visual Arts, Applied Context
Sint Lucas Antwerpen

Introduction

When is a graphic design “done”? A graphic designer keeps revising. Each version closes some doors and opens others. The work is never quite finished, only paused. (Un)finishedness explores completion not as a fixed state, but as a performance, negotiated between the designer’s intuition and outside pressures. Through repeatedly screen-printing posters and making a custom dry-transfer type kit, the project investigates how designers decide to begin, pause, and reopen.

The work focuses on a single poster, “Bare Minimum,” screen-printed in multiple versions over several months. Each version differs by a colour shift, a kerning adjustment, a repositioned element, a torn edge. The point is not to find the “best” version, but to make the small, often invisible decisions of design practice visible — the doubt during the making, the second-guessing after, the moment of choosing to stop. The accompanying custom dry-transfer type kit extends this question into a different register, offering a way for decisions to come from outside the designer. Completion, the project suggests, is never the designer’s decision alone.

Online Processfolio

jianxw.cargo.site, Platform: Cargo 3, Template: Graphic J405 (Cargo, discontinued), Custom code: HTML / CSS, assisted by Claude (Anthropic), Launched: Oct 2025 — ongoing

(Un)finished Poster Series

Technique: Screen print, Size: approx. 420 × 300 mm (hand-trimmed), Paper (Fedrigoni): Arena Rough White 140g / Sirio Black 290g / Splendorlux Metal Argento 250g, Ink: SICO Screen Inks — blue, royal blue (custom mix), yellow, red, white, black, silver, fluorescent orange, fluorescent red, fluorescent green, fluorescent blue, Print studio: Zeefdruk Werkplaats, Sint Lucas Antwerpen

Oct 2025 — Bare Minimum, Mar 2026 – present — (Un)finishedness (Remaking through collage and colour variation)

(Un)finished Dry-transfer Type Kit

Technique: Screen print on polyester transfer film, Transfer film: SICO Polyesterfolie Nr. 4, 50 × 35 cm (cut from 50 × 70 cm), cold peel, Adhesive: SICOL 150/31 (SICO Screen Inks), Ink: SICO Screen Inks — black, fluorescent green, Substrate (after transfer, Fedrigoni): Arena Rough White 140g / Sirio Black 290g, Print studio: Zeefdruk Werkplaats, Sint Lucas Antwerpen, Edition: ongoing

Typefaces

Diatype family (Dinamo) — poster series, online processfolio
Diatype Semi-Mono family (Dinamo) — online processfolio

Photography

Jian-Xin Wang, iPhone 15 Pro Max / 16 / 17 Pro Max

Language Support

Claude (Anthropic), Grammarly

Coaches & Supervisors

Project Coach: Sander Van de Vijver
Thesis Coach: Brenda Bikoko
Technical Coach: Gerard Leysen
Cross-coaching: Hugo Puttaert, Jan Baert, Reg Herygers
Masterclass: Danial Shah
Internship Supervisor: Hao Wei Tu (haoweitu.info)

Institution

Sint Lucas Antwerpen
Karel de Grote Hogeschool

Special Thanks

Clare Noonan, Emelie Marchoul, Julie Lauwereys, Kevin Kockelkoren, Kiekeboe, Lucas de la Rubia, Nastia Krasinskaia, Nore Kerkhofs, Sam Van Hooydonck, Sam Vanbelle, Sebastiaan Van Doninck, Yi-an Chen

© 2025–2026 Jian-Xin Wang
This colophon, like the project, is (un)finished.
Colophon v1.4 — last updated 3 Jun 2026

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Master in Visual Arts
Applied Context
@Sint Lucas Antwerpen, School of Arts